• JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    If a random comedian made that joke it would be offensive and slightly funny.

    He’s a former president, vying to be the next president, using a very real person’s trauma to set up the punch-line of a joke. It’s inappropriate and shows his lack of empathy.

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      1 month ago

      It’s inappropriate etc but it’s not exactly making fun of the dead.

      I try to think about these things from a “what would a median/swing voter think if they read this AND knew the context.” I firmly believe that misleading headlines etc have helped trump by making it harder for those in the middle to trust media outlets.