• Poplar?@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 months ago

    You’re right, but it isnt trying to actually argue that, its a joke.

    • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I understand it’s a joke, but it’s a poorly-formed joke that exposes its writer not understanding the thing they’re riffing on, lol.

      Would be kind of like making a joke based on a stereotype of NBA players mostly being redheads, with no such stereotype existing, lol.

      • Poplar?@lemmy.worldOP
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        5 months ago

        Jokes necessarily often leave behind details to work.

        Here the whole joke is pointing out similarities we see are forced.

        And besides, it’s obvious the author was intentionally being “wrong”, otherwise we’d be suggesting the author assumed the thought-experiment was monkeys who knew language, intentionally typing out great works. That’s a pretty useless situation to make up, it doesn’t suggest anything interesting.

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        5 months ago

        you can take the redditor out of reddit, but you can’t take reddit out of the redditor.