"Trump does thing people generally agree on out of kindness of his heart"
Too easy
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2025
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Trump's first term killed April Fools
News sources shouldn’t be playing stupid April fools jokes. Everyone’s a fucking comedian. Certain people don’t get to make cute jokes, i don’t want that from my doctor either.
injects you with a mystery chemical
"Haha, you thought that was a vaccine? Nope! April Fools!"
Being a fool has become a year-long occupation for many ...
Alternatively April fools air raid sirens
Yass... I woke up today and that's the first thought that popped into my head. With clowns running the world and their demented jokes as reality... nothing is funny anymore.
Today in headlines: Everything is normal. The USA is not the laughingstock of the world. Civil war is not imminent.
Haha! April Fools ... yea that kind of sucks, let me try again.
Today in headlines: Elon Musk takes a sledgehammer to a Tesla showroom while screaming "I will fucking beat you to it you filthy terrorists!" ... no, see, that could happen ... I quit April Fools.
I wonder if AI companies basically disregard scraped data from 01/04 due to all the tomfoolery.
The Onion problem.
Onion is almost spherical, it doesn't have any problems.
Not just an onion, but The Onion.
My local newspaper stopped doing April Fools in 2017 due to the problem of fake news and discussions about media's credibility.
Yeah, no newspapers in Norway have been doing April fool's since around that time
April’s fools jokes are tiring. I’m over them myself.
Businesses doing April Fools was fun until every gigantic corporation started doing it. Now it’s just bland, thinly-veiled marketing.
Most are lame. I saw nvid ai one and it didn't feel surprising and after I found out it was fake, I did not feel fooled. Kinda like someone saying "here have a cup of JAFFA! Jokes on you, it's orange juice!" Meanwhile some like suzuki slimny is cute and whimsical.
This year I told my family that I'd seen the light and to celebrate because I've finally become a conservative christian. 🍾 🎊
Tomorrow is gonna be fun.
Tomorrow:
No, after trying it, I decided being an arrogant, spiteful, narcissistic, selfish, hateful, vengeful, judgemental piece of shit is exhausting as all hell and also just kind of a little bit wrong, don't ya think?
Is this something they'd be delighted or horrified by?
Confused and bewildered mostly.
Sounds like it'd be closer to "horrified," then!
zomg pls update
OP is exactly right.
April Fools!
The onion should post real news on april 1st
They always do. Satirical, but real.
It depends. "Donald Trump wants to annex Wisconsin as the 51st state" wouldn't be funny. Pocketpair launching a Steam store page for the Palworld dating sim (which was last year's April Fools joke) was.
But yeah, this isn't the time for political humor.
I chuckled at "Trump wants to annex Wisconsin" because it is just plausible enough that he would say something like that.
I would almost find the Wisconsin one funny since it's already a state and I'd just assume grandpa Hitler was sundowning.
Goddamn this is fucked...
People trying to make others look foolish with mean spirited jokes and outright lies and then pointing and laughing at them has never been fun.
But maybe that's me being autistic that I don't get it.
I'm also autistic, and usually pretty bad at spotting jokes. But most April's fools jokes that I've come across were just lighhearted fun and pretty obviously fake. Just real enough sometimes to make you go "really?! oh nvm it's April 1st...". What kind of mean spirited jokes are people making?
Yeah, honestly this sounds like some people are doing mean-spirited jokes with the cover of April fools.
Yeah I saw a great one about how there's a new book in a series my partner and I read that we thought was done for...saw the date, had a quick laugh about how silly we were to believe it so fast.
The pointing an laughing at one or a few people is always assholish. A good prank involves everyone laughing together, and if it is targetted at anyone in particular they have to be comfortable with being the target.
Jokes that are aimed at a widespread audience get a pass because there will always be someone who doesn't like something or feels foolish when they feel tricked no matter how lighthearted the joke is. So a game company announcing something ridiculous for their game needs some leeway when someone takes it personally when they fall for an announcement that Fortnite is removing dances or there would be no room for humor.
Widespread ones can still be mean spirited of course, but tricking people isn't what makes it so.
I'm autistic and I loooaaaathe April Fools. 99 percent of the 'jokes' are just mean spirited assholishness I feel.
Random side note, feel suddenly didn't look like a word to me.
Being ASD definitely makes it harder to enjoy April Fools pranks that are harmless and clever.
My ASD friends and family will frequently perceive the omission of information as an offensive lie, when the reality is us not on the spectrum didn't consider it information worth sharing. Extend this to April Fools Day jokes, which should be intentional, harmless, clever pranks, and they just can't.
Really good ones stick in my mind forever. Guild Wars once turned all the players into stick figures. I still laugh at that. Prior to enshitification Reddit had some great ones, like Orange Red vs Periwinkle. RuneScape always released upcoming features at the beginning of the month, and April Fools Day was always a fake one that sounded almost believable. I had friends swap clothes and classes for an entire day in college. I had a physics professor teach biology to each of his classes - a different lecture in each period. I had two friends announce they were ending their friendship on Facebook but intended to remain roommates, and continue to hang out with the rest of us.
It's a social norm. Just like how sarcasm is difficult for some ASD to pick up. But, a lot of us non-ASD do need to choose our audience more carefully. I don't play pranks on my family and those friends. I also refrain from sarcasm and exaggerating too.
Nah, I'm not autistic and have always hated the idea of pranks like that.
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