Sometimes jokes occur at multiple levels. In this case, the joke is pretending to be those people who claimed to not recognize the obvious.
I find it interesting that some people don’t get this. Not because of what it says about their inability to process complex information, that’s well known. I am interested in how such people struggle to acknowledge that others can process more complexity than they can byattempting to claim that complex processing is broken.
I find all forms of projection fascinating especially the cases where one comes up with it without prompting.
I think I might understand what you mean. The joke insinuates that what happened with Elon on stage was an accident and not a deliberate nazi salute.
The opposite is probably true with the car. The driver probably did not intend to crash their car.
I think most people, myself included just accepted the joke at face value, but you are right, it’s reversed.
Sometimes jokes occur at multiple levels. In this case, the joke is pretending to be those people who claimed to not recognize the obvious.
I find it interesting that some people don’t get this. Not because of what it says about their inability to process complex information, that’s well known. I am interested in how such people struggle to acknowledge that others can process more complexity than they can byattempting to claim that complex processing is broken.
I find all forms of projection fascinating especially the cases where one comes up with it without prompting.