# Trolling? Did you think/ hope that the Covid 19 pandemic might unite us in adversity?

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolling-did-you-think-hope-that-the-covid-19-pandemic-might-unite-us-in-adversity/852082/41 "2020-04-21T19:41:01Z")

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> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> But that’s not at all how I read it. I read it as something like this:
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> OP Title: Is Mitch McConnell going to look for bipartisan cooperation during this crisis?  
> OP Content: HAHA of course not because he’s an asshole, but I wish things were otherwise.

The original post was:

> [@](#):
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> Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha  
> ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha  
> ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha  
> ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha (GASP!) ha ha ha  
> ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

To get your interpretation you would have to add a bit of explanatory dialog and delete about _fifty_ "ha ha"s.

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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolling-did-you-think-hope-that-the-covid-19-pandemic-might-unite-us-in-adversity/852082/42 "2020-04-21T20:46:20Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> The original post was:  
> To get your interpretation you would have to add a bit of explanatory dialog and delete about _fifty_ "ha ha"s.

I’m not even sure how to explain the idea of “interpretation.” Lemme try.

Yeah, obviously the explanatory text wasn’t there. That’s why readers have to **interpret** the OP’s intention, try to figure out WHY there were so many ha’s. Again, I don’t think it was a stellar post.

But **Colibri** interpreted it one way, and his interpretation is incorrect.

So yes: to get my interpretation, I did have to add some text explaining my interpretation. That’s how interpretations work.

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