• Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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    18 days ago

    Chat, is this real?

    yes.

    and we’re seeing it now because two days ago he wrote a long tweet (something only people who pay for twitter can do) musing about why so many people have been failing to understand that he was joking for the last eight years.

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      18 days ago

      I get it, I’m also confused that not even the vine thing was enough to clue a bunch of people in this thread in.

      It’s just some light-hearted trolling. Pretty sad that the dude gets so much hate for something so harmless.

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        18 days ago

        what’s the joke?

        Edit:

        ok i read his explanation. so it was a joke to him. not to anyone else. i guess i can respect that, even though i don’t see the likeness without peels either.

          • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
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            18 days ago

            So you really think that he believes that both apples and potatos grow on vines. Wow.

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                    15 days ago

                    Which isn’t the case here.

                    “lying” means “saying something that you know is untrue with the goal of deceiving someone into believing it”

                    You can lie as a mean joke on someone’s expense (haha look at that idiot believing my lie)

                    But if you don’t actually intend to deceive someone beyond the end of your joke, you’re not lying. You’re joking.