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Donald Trump will be the first former president to face a criminal trial, judge rules
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If you’re going to assert everyone else was wrong with the obvious reading of the comment and that he was clearly joking you should at least bother to check if you’re right. 🤷♂️
I can read, understand how context works, and have knowledge of events over the past 6 - 8 years. And yes, they misinterpreted him and downvoted, then other people clicked the button without reading it. If you want to tell me that this doesn't happen, I will believe that you simply have no experience with social media.
Worse: people have thanked me for explaining it so this really is just a "you" thing.
I don't follow how you seeing a MAGA dude making a MAGA comment and making up a story about how he was really joking is somehow a reflection of my inexperience with social media, but alright. 👍
Yeah dude you're on a weird thing here. It was a funny comment. Learn to laugh and stop being so edgy.
Don't worry I understood this immediately and totally agree with your interpretation. (As if the ;) wasn't obvious)
People just love to drag dissenters on the Internet.
It's because the person I responded to decided that the original comment was MAGA for some reason because of the person's post history or something that actually has no bearing at all on this thread.