• fizzle@quokk.au
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    14 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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      13 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.

      • fizzle@quokk.au
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        9 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”.