u/howrar

Context will tell you that we're talking about losing access to water. If people won't procreate because they don't have water, it makes no difference if it's because we are literally all out of water or if someone else is hoarding it all. In both cases, there's no access to water.

If you're your own audience, then you can keep the joker in your head. Posting it on Lemmy broadcasts it to everyone here and that makes all of us your audience.

That's the thing. There's a long line of hands taking turns in stroking his ego. Which one was last to do it? How long before the next one and who is it going to be? We don't know any of that.

It only works as a joke when your audience knows you well enough to know it's meant as a joke without the /s. That does not apply to you when you post on Lemmy.

Those interests have historically been very stable over time so it was easy to tell if you were going to be a friend or foe. But they suddenly changed with the current administration and we have no idea what they are anymore.