It took me a second to get it too. It’s just a joke that’s worded like the caption on an old fashioned 1 panel cartoon, like Far Side.
e.g. if I’d posted a picture of a man surrounded by an angry mob, he might have commented something like “in hindsight, Greg shouldn’t have sold a counterfeit Mona Lisa to ALL the museums in town.”
Honestly, it’s a little weird that people can’t identify such obvious shitposting in a meme community. This is the second time it’s happened in two weeks.
You don’t understand the humor of hearing about something that seems to be a coincidence, and then hearing a separate example that is overtly terrible in the same way?
what are you saying, what are you talking about? it feels like you’re making reference to something which seems obvious to you but the rest of us don’t know what you’re referring
bring attention to that people on lemmy are participating in No Kings
draw a connection between the Red Hats and RedHat
personally i’d not have made the association joke since IBM, the RedHat corporation’s parent company is genuinely participatory in both the Latin/Indigenous American genocide and Israel’s genocide against muslims in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and other nearby nations, not to mention RedHat themselves have been exploiting people’s labor in North Carolina and haven’t done hardly anything to help the neighboring communities around their offices in Charlotte and Ashville, but i don’t expect most people shitposting about Linux on Lemmy to be keyed into the real world impacts the RedHat corporation has on my friends and neighbors
Okay, you’ve left out a key part of the post, the title. “We’re catching strays” (as in “stray bullets”). So, the point is actually that “red hat” Linux and “red hat” MAGA have no important connection, yet the word play, “you can’t spell hatred without red hat,” works just as well for red hat Linux. That’s why it’s a stray bullet. It wasn’t aimed at Linux, but it hit Linux, anyways. That’s the point of the post. That’s why it’s posted to the Linux Memes community.
OP’s humor is that Linux accidentally shares a symbol with these MAGA people, and so if you post it to a bunch of Linux people, we can all jokingly say that it seems like they’re criticizing an innocent Linux distribution.
My comment was a joke that I invented some situation where Red Hat had accidentally done something far worse in the past. I don’t know what you’d call it, maybe a play on dramatic irony. They’re taking these stray bullets, so wouldn’t it be funny if they’d made a similar mistake in the past, only a million times worse, but only a few people knew about it.
You see these sorts of jokes all the time on TV. Like a guy has it all set up to propose to a girl on the big screen at a baseball game, and so before that, they put them on the kiss cam, and she refuses to, saying that she doesn’t like public displays of affection. So, then the knowledge that the proposal would be much worse is funny.
So, there’s really no extra context. If you understand the humor of OP’s post, I think you should understand the humor of my comment.
ah, i took the stray shots to be us, linux users and linux users groups, not linux, and then i didn’t pick up you were inventing a hypothetical scenario to frame a joke, so to me it seemed like a callback to a real prior redhad announcement i hadn’t heard about. with that context, it seemed like a non-sequitar and then flippant refusals to explain the reference. the additional context you just gave was extremely helpful because we had different ideas of who the “we” in the original framing was
No, I don’t even know what you’re talking about. I’ve engaged in this for too long already if you’re not going to explain whatever the heck you were talking about. I think you’re also getting downvotes because others don’t know what you’re talking about either.
Downvotes are meaningless, except to give me a list of usernames who don’t know how to participate in adult discussions. I don’t have much in the way of respect for people who take stock in them. Donald Trump got the most votes in 2024, and it doesn’t mean anything except that tens of millions of people made a poor decision when voting.
Hey. I’m sincere when I say this: I think we sometimes get into the unfortunate habit of gloomscrolling, just incessant negative news- that when we stumble into another community, we go in a bit “on-edge”. Please don’t think they’re out to harm you. I’ve gotten upset by TheOnion more than my fair share of times. Also, toast rocks.
What?
It took me a second to get it too. It’s just a joke that’s worded like the caption on an old fashioned 1 panel cartoon, like Far Side.
e.g. if I’d posted a picture of a man surrounded by an angry mob, he might have commented something like “in hindsight, Greg shouldn’t have sold a counterfeit Mona Lisa to ALL the museums in town.”
That would make a much better explanation than anything the commenter has said.
Honestly, it’s a little weird that people can’t identify such obvious shitposting in a meme community. This is the second time it’s happened in two weeks.
What are you talking about Fascist Fedora? Everyone else seems to be having fun with the post because it is a shitpost.
You don’t understand the humor of hearing about something that seems to be a coincidence, and then hearing a separate example that is overtly terrible in the same way?
what are you saying, what are you talking about? it feels like you’re making reference to something which seems obvious to you but the rest of us don’t know what you’re referring
Okay, I’ll explain it to you, but only if you play along.
Explain to me what is the purpose of OP’s post, with the protest sign at the no kings protest.
personally i’d not have made the association joke since IBM, the RedHat corporation’s parent company is genuinely participatory in both the Latin/Indigenous American genocide and Israel’s genocide against muslims in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and other nearby nations, not to mention RedHat themselves have been exploiting people’s labor in North Carolina and haven’t done hardly anything to help the neighboring communities around their offices in Charlotte and Ashville, but i don’t expect most people shitposting about Linux on Lemmy to be keyed into the real world impacts the RedHat corporation has on my friends and neighbors
Okay, you’ve left out a key part of the post, the title. “We’re catching strays” (as in “stray bullets”). So, the point is actually that “red hat” Linux and “red hat” MAGA have no important connection, yet the word play, “you can’t spell hatred without red hat,” works just as well for red hat Linux. That’s why it’s a stray bullet. It wasn’t aimed at Linux, but it hit Linux, anyways. That’s the point of the post. That’s why it’s posted to the Linux Memes community.
OP’s humor is that Linux accidentally shares a symbol with these MAGA people, and so if you post it to a bunch of Linux people, we can all jokingly say that it seems like they’re criticizing an innocent Linux distribution.
My comment was a joke that I invented some situation where Red Hat had accidentally done something far worse in the past. I don’t know what you’d call it, maybe a play on dramatic irony. They’re taking these stray bullets, so wouldn’t it be funny if they’d made a similar mistake in the past, only a million times worse, but only a few people knew about it.
You see these sorts of jokes all the time on TV. Like a guy has it all set up to propose to a girl on the big screen at a baseball game, and so before that, they put them on the kiss cam, and she refuses to, saying that she doesn’t like public displays of affection. So, then the knowledge that the proposal would be much worse is funny.
So, there’s really no extra context. If you understand the humor of OP’s post, I think you should understand the humor of my comment.
ah, i took the stray shots to be us, linux users and linux users groups, not linux, and then i didn’t pick up you were inventing a hypothetical scenario to frame a joke, so to me it seemed like a callback to a real prior redhad announcement i hadn’t heard about. with that context, it seemed like a non-sequitar and then flippant refusals to explain the reference. the additional context you just gave was extremely helpful because we had different ideas of who the “we” in the original framing was
No, I don’t even know what you’re talking about. I’ve engaged in this for too long already if you’re not going to explain whatever the heck you were talking about. I think you’re also getting downvotes because others don’t know what you’re talking about either.
I literally just explained it to you. I’m not being cagey. I think you must be used to not getting jokes, so I’m not sure why you’re blaming me.
I would say based on the votes nobody knows what you’re talking about. But yeah, go ahead and be condescending for some reason. Enjoy it I guess.
Downvotes are meaningless, except to give me a list of usernames who don’t know how to participate in adult discussions. I don’t have much in the way of respect for people who take stock in them. Donald Trump got the most votes in 2024, and it doesn’t mean anything except that tens of millions of people made a poor decision when voting.
Hey. I’m sincere when I say this: I think we sometimes get into the unfortunate habit of gloomscrolling, just incessant negative news- that when we stumble into another community, we go in a bit “on-edge”. Please don’t think they’re out to harm you. I’ve gotten upset by TheOnion more than my fair share of times. Also, toast rocks.
I was just curious what the heck the guy is talking about. I still don’t know.