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And \\\"it\\\'s not funny\\\" isn\\\'t really a qualifier, I don\\\'t think. Funniness isn\\\'t anywhere in the definition of the trope. None of your qualifiers are. A cartoonist expressing their opinion in their comic isn\\\'t the same thing as them spending weeks or months building up the same point in a way that everything else grinds to a halt.

[=*=] Actually, don\\\'t, since AuthorTract doesn\\\'t work either. That\\\'s when the author feels making a point is more important than telling a story, and that\\\'s clearly not going on here.
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And \\\"it\\\'s not funny\\\" isn\\\'t really a qualifier, I don\\\'t think. I mean, I chuckled at the \\\"five minutes into our own past\\\" line, but that\\\'s not the point. Funniness isn\\\'t anywhere in the definition of the trope. None of your qualifiers are. A cartoonist expressing their opinion in their comic isn\\\'t the same thing as them spending weeks or months building up the same point in a way that everything else grinds to a halt.

[=*=] Actually, don\\\'t, since AuthorTract doesn\\\'t work either. That\\\'s when the author feels making a point is more important than telling a story, and that\\\'s clearly not going on here.
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And \\\"it\\\'s not funny\\\" isn\\\'t really a qualifier, I don\\\'t think. I mean, I chuckled at the \\\"five minutes into our own past\\\" line, but that\\\'s not the point. Funniness isn\\\'t anywhere in the definition of the trope. None of your qualifiers are.

[=*=] Actually, don\\\'t, since AuthorTract doesn\\\'t work either. That\\\'s when the author feels making a point is more important than telling a story, and that\\\'s clearly not going on here.
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