Yeah, it sucks to be on the side where people will pick apart your words to see if they can intentionally misconstrue anything. So you have to very carefully craft all sentences to reduce the chance that any of them can be misinterpreted. Instead of the side where you can just say whatever you want and if it doesn’t play well, you were retroactively actually joking.
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Yeah, it sucks to be on the side where people will pick apart your words to see if they can intentionally misconstrue anything. So you have to very carefully craft all sentences to reduce the chance that any of them can be misinterpreted. Instead of the side where you can just say whatever you want and if it doesn’t play well, you were retroactively actually joking.