• fireweed@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Copy-past of my comment from the last time this meme was posted:

    Obligatory “fuck Vance,” but his comment was made in the context of other commencement speakers’ getting boo’d for their AI comments, and in that sense it actually was an amusing joke (given Vance’s proclivity for gaffes, I suspect credit goes to his speech writer).

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      12 days ago

      Can I get a little more context? Was it a joke bc he was addressing service members or something that literally aren’t allowed to boo him?

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        12 days ago

        It’s at about the nine minute mark of the clip linked up top. Sounds like a joke to me.

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          12 days ago

          Only makes sense as a joke to me. They already know they aren’t allowed to boo. These are officers (sure they’re butterbars or whatever the hell the AF calls them but they aren’t E-2s)

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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        11 days ago

        MAGA jokes are never jokes, they are veiled threats. Saying “You aren’t allowed to boo me,” isn’t a joke just because he pasted on a phony smile when he said it.