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Therapy session (thelemmy.club)

submitted 1 week ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] anewfox@lemmy.zip 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

this comes across like anti-therapy propaganda.

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[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 31 points 1 week ago (1 child)

I thought it was just a funny

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 11 points 6 days ago (1 child)

Quite often when I hear or see a joke I think a bit further than the surface level and ponder how that joke reflects on the image of someone in real life. Sometimes the answer is 'not good'. The same goes for things other than jokes, so it always makes sense to consider how things you encounter may affect you

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[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 0 points 6 days ago* (2 children)

Cats like to hunt birds, it's really not that serious brother. It's a funny joke.

Also, just to get some downvotes, generally speaking the more offensive a joke the funnier. As long as you're not directly making fun of a specific individual offensive jokes are funny af. And even if you are making fun of someone in specific, like Charlie Kirk, it's still funny as fuck.

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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago

Some offensive jokes don't try to smear the ones they try to offend, I'm perfectly fine with those

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[–] SarahValentine@pawb.social 1 point 6 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_fire

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[–] skidicarus@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Tis a joke

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[–] Sidhean@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

When a joke isn't funny, all thats left is the material that makes up the joke. This joke wasn't funny to me, so I just see the "therapist wants to kill you" bit, which is doubly unfunny. Crazy how subjective comedy is :3

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[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 point 6 days ago

You don't kill an oyster to get a pearl, just FYI. It's actually quite helpful for them.

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[–] skidicarus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Wouldn't the material be that cats want to kill birds?

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[–] Sidhean@piefed.social -3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Yeah, thats another take. I don't know if one interpretation or the other is more right, or anything.

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[–] unknown@piefed.social -1 points 1 week ago (1 child)

How is media literacy getting so bad? It wasn't this bad here even a year ago.

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[–] jve@lemmy.world 1 point 6 days ago (1 child)

Seriously. We have people in here acting like there’s only one way to interpret a comic, and complaining about how bad media literacy is. That’s how bad it’s gotten.

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