• _donnadie_@feddit.cl
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    18 hours ago

    Exactly. That is part of the joke.

    Norm understands that it’s not true, he pokes fun at it because most people do tend to take it as fact. He ridiculizes how silly that thought is.

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      16 hours ago

      Ill have to take your word for it. As written, it doesn’t seem that way to me at all.

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        15 hours ago

        I can understand that. Norm was a guy that went heavy into sarcasm and irony in his jokes.
        Reading the text as is would make you understand it differently if you didn’t know him.

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          11 hours ago

          You’re right, I don’t know him, but I still think you’re making up a deeper level of humor that wasn’t intended.

          “Luckily the good guys have won every single time” is a very direct jab at historians always casting themselves as the good guys.

          You’re all up in here like “wull ackshually this is a post modern commentary on feminism because he’s used the gendered phrase ‘guys’ and you just wouldn’t get it because reasons”.