Humor can be many things
Humor can be crass and ugly and undermine your efforts
Humor can also be deployed in sly ways that let you say something that would be difficult or imprudent to say directly. It goes over the heads of idiots, it lands squarely in the minds of those who get it
Watch as #Zelensky welcomes #Kushner and #Witkoff to #Kyiv
🤭
#Ukraine #Russia #Trump #UkraineWar
⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce)
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