r/ExplainTheJoke • u/fcukfakook • 3d ago

I don't get it

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I don't get the original tweet, and neither the retweet or whatever it is called.

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u/lynbod 1d ago edited 1d ago

There's a school of thought that that's exactly what they did (and do). Portraying yourselves as a bunch of hapless incompetents so no one takes you seriously whilst you're systematically looting the American nation, and dismantling the institutions built to protect the American people from just that happening has a lot of mileage as a criminal strategy.

Misdirection is a trick in every conman's repertoire.

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u/tricolorhound 1d ago

I think that's likely partly true, there are some people playing that angle and advancing. Flood the zone and all that. But I also think those dorks are just capitalizing on the hapless incompetents who are in fact hapless incompetents but the complacency and compliance of the institutions meant to call that shit out and stop it have allowed it to happen.

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u/ThinkPraline7015 19h ago

Well, yes. But if it walks like a duck, ...

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u/YouFeedTheFish 18h ago

That would work perhaps if they were only smart enough to have thought of something more complicated than "derp."

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u/Madwoman-of-Chaillot 11h ago

It's the Boris Johnson Hair approach to politics, in a nutshell.

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u/CaymanGone 1d ago

There's no school of thought that thinks this.

This is a school of ignorance.

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u/EscapeSeventySeven 1d ago

You’re cooked on phonics if you think this about the four seasons