The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place):
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
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so the seven year old wanted to watch the World Series tonight and that meant we got to explain to him that people were telling awful lies about our friends on the television thanks to the gross anti-trans ads running during the game
fuck these fucking assholes
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