• yetAnotherUser
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    5 months ago

    Why is this downvoted so much?

    It uses subversion of expectations as a joke. This is the anti-war original:

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      5 months ago

      Probably because it perpetuates a tired stereotype of the armed forces/first responders beating their families by showing that the daughter hopes he lost a hand so he can’t hit her.

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        5 months ago

        That feels like a bit of a stretch to me for what is a pretty standard anti-meme.

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          Well, if we can take the upvote/downvote system as a measure of agree/disagree you can see that at least a few people clocked it the same way I did.