Sometimes you stumble across a sentiment that could be a lunatic raving, or it could be a parody… and you just can’t tell which. Such as this supposed twitter post from early 2019… the account existed, but has been banned for some reason. There are a number of posts about this tweet, all asking the question: “real or nah?”
Today's challenge:
How do we reliably tell whether a social justice account like @SentientJessica is sincere, or parody?
What criteria do y'all suggest? pic.twitter.com/Nt618cJ8mz— Geoffrey Miller 🔍 (@primalpoly) February 4, 2019
And in looking this one up, other “I can’t tell if they’re joking” posts come up. Such as a video showing someone attempting to park and doing it very, very badly. That’s mildly amusing with no further context, but the driver is purported to be Delegate Elanor homes Norton of D.C, nominated by the Biden Administration for a top spot on the House transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
.@SpeakerPelosi is seriously considering this person to serve as the chairwoman of the Transportation Committee. pic.twitter.com/Gh5698ZeYU
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 17, 2022
That’s the sort of irony that you gotta scratch your head over. Someone wholly incompetent at basic transportation, being put in charge of transportation? The idea is so ludicrously stupid that it seems not just plausible, but inevitable. Like those goombahs who blather on about how awful guns are and how we should listen to them and do their bidding about banning guns, when they don’t know the first thing about guns but are happy to stand in front of the press and wave an AK-47 around.