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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

So where would the people identifying themselves as left or right be?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The illustration is not analogous. The first picture is based on the perception that centrists have of themselves, the second is the reality of that perception. It’s a metaphor. Humor does not always follow logic, crazy right?

This incongruity model can explain why older adults do not comprehend jokes as frequently as younger adults. Due to declines tied to the aging process, older adults may not have the cognitive resources needed to create multiple representations, to simultaneously hold multiple ones in order to detect the incongruity, or to inhibit the first one that was activated. Getting the joke relies on working memory capacity and control functions. However, when older adults succeed in their efforts to do these things, they typically show greater appreciation of the joke than younger adults do and report greater life satisfaction than those who don’t see the humor.

Interesting read on why sometimes we don’t get the joke.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Same place. This cartoon is nonsense.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Note: This comment.

Edit: You have to be dumb to get the joke. If someone has to explain it to you, you’re too smart to understand it, and it ceases to be funny.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Whether it is funny or not funny, I don’t see the joke itself, or the point. Is the point you are making that both left and right are equally irrelevant to the inequality shown in the second panel?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The ✧˖°.joke✧˖°. is that centrists believe themselves to be intellectually superior to the petty squabbling of the Left and the Right. The reality of North American politics is that Centrists represent the status quo. So if the status quo is rich people get to exploit marginalized communities, Centrists are propping up the capitalists instead of remaining impartial and above all of the noise. The humor is that Centrists are delusional and make bad faith false equivalencies.

It's really not as hard to parse as you're making it seem.

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

This is like saying that economically centrists are to the right of the left. Which is like duh. It is quite obvious why people miss this point, it looks like no point and the second panel is not different from the first in this respect. But I want to thank you for explaining the intent behind this cartoon.

I also disagree that centrists represent the status quo. It depends on the issue. Take Supreme Court, for example. It is clearly on the right side. Take taxation of the income brackets. It is clearly on the left side (one of the most progressive taxes in the world), but on the taxes for things like capital gain, it is clearly on the right. And so on. But that’s different discussion.