bring attention to that people on lemmy are participating in No Kings
draw a connection between the Red Hats and RedHat
personally i’d not have made the association joke since IBM, the RedHat corporation’s parent company is genuinely participatory in both the Latin/Indigenous American genocide and Israel’s genocide against muslims in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and other nearby nations, not to mention RedHat themselves have been exploiting people’s labor in North Carolina and haven’t done hardly anything to help the neighboring communities around their offices in Charlotte and Ashville, but i don’t expect most people shitposting about Linux on Lemmy to be keyed into the real world impacts the RedHat corporation has on my friends and neighbors
Okay, you’ve left out a key part of the post, the title. “We’re catching strays” (as in “stray bullets”). So, the point is actually that “red hat” Linux and “red hat” MAGA have no important connection, yet the word play, “you can’t spell hatred without red hat,” works just as well for red hat Linux. That’s why it’s a stray bullet. It wasn’t aimed at Linux, but it hit Linux, anyways. That’s the point of the post. That’s why it’s posted to the Linux Memes community.
OP’s humor is that Linux accidentally shares a symbol with these MAGA people, and so if you post it to a bunch of Linux people, we can all jokingly say that it seems like they’re criticizing an innocent Linux distribution.
My comment was a joke that I invented some situation where Red Hat had accidentally done something far worse in the past. I don’t know what you’d call it, maybe a play on dramatic irony. They’re taking these stray bullets, so wouldn’t it be funny if they’d made a similar mistake in the past, only a million times worse, but only a few people knew about it.
You see these sorts of jokes all the time on TV. Like a guy has it all set up to propose to a girl on the big screen at a baseball game, and so before that, they put them on the kiss cam, and she refuses to, saying that she doesn’t like public displays of affection. So, then the knowledge that the proposal would be much worse is funny.
ah, i took the stray shots to be us, linux users and linux users groups, not linux, and then i didn’t pick up you were inventing a hypothetical scenario to frame a joke, so to me it seemed like a callback to a real prior redhad announcement i hadn’t heard about. with that context, it seemed like a non-sequitar and then flippant refusals to explain the reference. the additional context you just gave was extremely helpful because we had different ideas of who the “we” in the original framing was
personally i’d not have made the association joke since IBM, the RedHat corporation’s parent company is genuinely participatory in both the Latin/Indigenous American genocide and Israel’s genocide against muslims in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and other nearby nations, not to mention RedHat themselves have been exploiting people’s labor in North Carolina and haven’t done hardly anything to help the neighboring communities around their offices in Charlotte and Ashville, but i don’t expect most people shitposting about Linux on Lemmy to be keyed into the real world impacts the RedHat corporation has on my friends and neighbors
Okay, you’ve left out a key part of the post, the title. “We’re catching strays” (as in “stray bullets”). So, the point is actually that “red hat” Linux and “red hat” MAGA have no important connection, yet the word play, “you can’t spell hatred without red hat,” works just as well for red hat Linux. That’s why it’s a stray bullet. It wasn’t aimed at Linux, but it hit Linux, anyways. That’s the point of the post. That’s why it’s posted to the Linux Memes community.
OP’s humor is that Linux accidentally shares a symbol with these MAGA people, and so if you post it to a bunch of Linux people, we can all jokingly say that it seems like they’re criticizing an innocent Linux distribution.
My comment was a joke that I invented some situation where Red Hat had accidentally done something far worse in the past. I don’t know what you’d call it, maybe a play on dramatic irony. They’re taking these stray bullets, so wouldn’t it be funny if they’d made a similar mistake in the past, only a million times worse, but only a few people knew about it.
You see these sorts of jokes all the time on TV. Like a guy has it all set up to propose to a girl on the big screen at a baseball game, and so before that, they put them on the kiss cam, and she refuses to, saying that she doesn’t like public displays of affection. So, then the knowledge that the proposal would be much worse is funny.
ah, i took the stray shots to be us, linux users and linux users groups, not linux, and then i didn’t pick up you were inventing a hypothetical scenario to frame a joke, so to me it seemed like a callback to a real prior redhad announcement i hadn’t heard about. with that context, it seemed like a non-sequitar and then flippant refusals to explain the reference. the additional context you just gave was extremely helpful because we had different ideas of who the “we” in the original framing was