People Then and Now Wiretap Joke
PEOPLE IN THE SIXTIES: I BETTER NOT SAY THAT OR THE GOVERNMENT WILL WIRETAP MY HOUSE PEOPLE TODAY: HEY WIRETAP, DO YOU HAVE A RECIPE FOR PANCAKES?
A two-panel comparison shows a worried woman in the 1960s carefully avoiding suspicious remarks because she fears government wiretapping, while a modern woman casually asks a wiretap for a pancake recipe. The joke contrasts historical paranoia about surveillance with today’s normalized smart-home technology and people jokingly treating devices as always-listening assistants.
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- @rzeczyzabawne / 8921 2023-05-10
- Type
- image
- Size
- 700×700 · 83.2 KiB
- Mood
- sarcastic, absurd
- Language
- en
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