I tried it a few times recently when I’ve been down in the trenches of shitposting and it is very funny to make them try to explain their argument to you as if you have no idea what they’re saying. It’s so easy to bait them into thinking they’re about to bring up this amazing dunk about how China banned Winnie the Pooh or whatever and win you over, and then you get to just tell them that’s not true because you just looked it up plus now it feels racist.

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[–] NedIsakoff@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Acting like I have no idea what people are talking about (usually chuds complaining about "woke" or something) is always so funny irl. It's like a dumb guy socratic method and can get some people into funny loops or just giving up.

Like when the Chinese weather balloon was in the news. My mother-in-law brought it up at a birthday thing I was like

"Oh you got them birthday balloons? Wait aren't they a little old for balloons?"

"No the chinese balloon!"

"Yeah they probably would be made in China, pretty much all our stuff is"

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It took me well into adulthood to realize that I was indeed making people laugh by being literally autistic and doing this exact thing by accident.

Coworker apparently obviously complaining that the weather outside is unpleasant to him: “Good god sure is some great weather we are having, huh?”

Me (autistic), who is enjoying the weather: “Yeah it’s beautiful out today. I might eat my lunch outside!” :)

Coworker: “HA that’s great! Me too! I’ll see you out there.”

Me: “Oh nice! Alright see you later!”