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“Let’s go Brandon” was kinda funny at first (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/unpopularopinion

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For a week, it was worth a giggle. A flustered trackside nascar reporter attempting to avoid cursing on the news? That’s hilarious. Like every joke and/or horse, it was rapidly beaten past death. The body still receives unironic thwacks to this day.

Then it was revived as satire and resumed being funny for a fresh week or two. This was over a year ago. The horse is not just dead, it is not even a paste or powder, it has been completely aerosolized in a closed crimson room where people fan it back and forth in remembrance of beating its corpse.

Biden’s the best chance for continued democracy in the US, but I've been breathing in Brandon particulate since 2021 and I’m afraid it will give me lung cancer.

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[–] mojofrododojo 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"For a week, it was worth a giggle."

humor is subjective. it was telling, to me, the people who got that giggle, and the ones that kept running with it even after it lost it's... giggle worthiness.

As if, when someone tells you a joke, and then says, GET IT? GET IT? no? oh shit, now they have to explain the joke's mechanics because obviously you haven't gotten it, otherwise you'd be herniating with laughter.... except, it was never funny in the first place.

Ironically, they'll never get it: dems say fuck joe biden all the time, and don't feel the need for childish self censorship when we say it, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT 5 YEAR OLDS. Or members of a deranged cult. I get pissed at people all the time but don't waste my days coming up with clever homonyms to insult them.

But I get that it plays to Trump's base, they act like children in a cult.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

If you want to get a fresh giggle, check out the comments on the original video on YouTube or your alternative front end of choice. Delusions aplenty, but my favorite is something to the effect of “this is when history was made,” posted some months ago. It’s a reporter unintentionally continuing to host cursing for a minute; a cheeky little snafu to be sure, but calling it historic really encapsulates the podunk conservative multitude’s attitude.