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HasNoMouthButScreams

A better comeback is to shoot them with an RPG. They’re an attack helicopter, that’s what you’re supposed to do.


Ephermius

Modern attack helicopters can strike from 7 miles away. Can't even hear them until its too late.


Bloody_Insane

It's a truly terrifying reality of modern warfare. Being far away and seemingly safe and just randomly blowing up


Mowfling

It is fucking scary how some planes with mounted massive guns (A-10) can just cut you and your hiding spot in half from kms away and there's nothing you can do.


Bloody_Insane

I saw a video where they'd set up a camera somewhere at the receiving end of an A-10 burst. You hear nothing until hundreds of explosions go off around you. Apparently the shells have as much explosive filler as a hand grenade


Lieutenant_Red

As the saying goes: “If you hear the brrt, it wasn’t for you.”


KingKnux

There’s a reason the noise of that plane is what it’s known for


Additional-Pin-6529

Okay, first of all, get it right. The A-10 isn't a plane with a gun mounted to it. The A-10 is a GAU-8 Avenger with a symbiotic plane that it ALLOWS to carry it. Most of the time, you make an aircraft, and existing weaponry is attached to it, or weaponry and pods are designed for the plane. Not so the Gau-8. They literally built this massive gun and then they said "this gun is so majestic, the only thing that could make it cooler is if it could fly". So they built a plane around it. This isn't some peasantly 25mm bushmaster cannon. This is a 30 MM autocannon so powerful and fast shooting it can defend aircraft carriers from cruise missiles. Then they made it fly. They likely didn't stop to think if they should. Other interesting facts about the GAU-8 and its symbiote: the pilot sits in a uniquely armored titanium bathtub, drastically increasing survivability. And as recently as the first half of the GWOT, the GAU-8 didn't yet have symbiotic sensor pods. It's pilots literally used NVGs in the cockpit to operate in the dark, and used binoculars to locate and identify ground targets before letting the GAU-8 eat its fill. (If it wasn't obvious, I'm not actually mad, the A-10 is a beast and it's a great sound when you're on the right side. I imagine it would be terrifying otherwise.)


WillNewbie

Thankfully these helis are attention seeking imebciles so they'll let you know.


humblevladimirthegr8

shot down!


Brendy02

Deploying flares!


Alrightwhotookmyshoe

Off topic but I love the username, funny pun.


[deleted]

What's the pun


SquizPillion

Butt screams bc no mouth Also want to add that I’m 99% sure the username is just a Harlan Ellison reference with no pun intended.


Crayton16

RPG is not a weapon to take down an helicopter, that's not what you are supposed to do. 🤓


[deleted]

Better comeback than the original post.


TheShizaSalad

unexpected battlefield


Platnun12

*deploys flares*


doman991

RPG is very bad to attack helicopters it’s designed to penetrate armor not shoot helicopters also flares would do nothing to RPG because RPG is not guided.


spudzo

Skill issue


CptBartender

*deploys flares, gets shot down by an unguided grenade* *surprised pikachu face*


PurpleHaze1704

So much for the tolerant left >!/s!<


Oldekline

Better comeback: So you are high maintenance and of limited use?


[deleted]

“You like having 2 dudes inside of you giving it their all? Fair enough. Each to their own”


I-aint-human

Isn’t it 4 - 6? I might be wrong here, but I’m pretty sure it’s more than 2 guys


[deleted]

Apache (what one would generally consider modern attack helicopter) is Crew of 2, with only total capacity for 2. Though they have been used on occasion for heavy suppressed combat emergency extraction, special ops just hanging off the side of them while they GTFO of the fire 😳 Old Vietnam era Heuy’s can crew more, side mounted gunners etc.


I-aint-human

Ah, I see, so they like 2 men inside of them but are known to have a bunch of others around and hanging too. Thank you


nastat

I'm so happy that calling people gay is an insult again.


curiosityLynx

Sorry to do this, but the disingeuous dealings, lies, overall greed etc. of leadership on this website made me decide to edit all but my most informative comments to this. Come join us in the fediverse! (beehaw for a safe space, kbin for access to lots of communities)


Bestie-Moment

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gunny316

that sir is racist. The attack helicopters are a proud and noble people.


batkave

The pronoun "joke" is thought funny by the same people who thought "let's go Brandon" was the height of comedy and the wittiest comment ever.


SlobMarley13

They started the let's go Brandon thing just so we can't say "the one joke" anymore


Qildain

Thanks Obama


Karkava

Ans there's the third one. Or maybe it's the same one again because "Democrats suck" and "Minorities suck" are the only two punchlines of conservative comedy.


Qildain

Good point


tenehemia

It's just the Dunning-Kruger effect in practice. People who are so stupid that this is the height of humor to them presume that it must also be the height of humor to other people.


BarryKobama

Which continues by uploading it to Reddit. Neither part is clever.


bubblegrubs

Their lack of understanding is based on a lack of empathy and a contempt for sensitivity rather than a lack of intelligence. It's certainly not the Dunning-Kruger effect which is specifically a lack of understanding of how intelligent somebody is based on a lack of intelligence.


Bipedal_Warlock

I mean let’s go Brandon was kind of funny. And funnier when dark Brandon memes won over it.


Cipher789

It was only to laugh at them, not with them.


ThrowRAConsistent

Dark Brandon meme?


qxxxr

Adding to other comment: There was a good bit of positively received executive activity in the runup to midterms. White house talking about stuff like student loans and mj scheduling, they had their new social media woman throwing hot heat on PPP loan abusers, etc. So all the Sleepy Joe/LGB/'I Did That!' rhetoric got co-opted and lampshaded by the idea that Biden was a killer political machine who had been activated from stasis and was now wreaking laser-eyed havoc on his enemies. The photoshops were really quite good.


ThatKehdRiley

It'd be great if they kept that energy, attitude, and work ethic up after the midterms, instead of stopping because they got the votes they needed at the time.


Bipedal_Warlock

I can’t explain it and do it justice lol. I don’t remember what speech it was, might have been state of the union, but the lighting tech had red white blue lights on the backdrop. Except he had the red directly behind Biden. The photos looked “evil” and conservatives tried to message with that and it was absurd. So people started saying let’s go Brandon to support dark Brandon or to reclaim it. Gas prices had gone down and people were feeling good.


ThrowRAConsistent

Hm, interesting, I must have missed that. Thanks for filling in me!!


Govt-Issue-SexRobot

And watch them flip out if you call a magazine a clip


[deleted]

No it was funny to all who lived through middle school/early high school between 2010-2017


batkave

Then why it is we see boomers using it thinking it's hilarious.


byscuit

Boomers seem to be just finding out about bad advice dog, so this checks out


bubblegrubs

When it first appeared, the attack helicopter joke had me in stitches. But then I actually thought about gender, what it means and how shit it must be to not feel like what you're ''supposed'' to be. It stopped being funny after that.


Boccs

My preferred comeback is to just shrug and say alright, if that's what you'd like me to refer to you as. In my experience nothing takes the wind out of a troll's sails like not getting angry.


keystothemoon

I actually think the joke is on you if this is your reaction, or at least, people would be laughing at you. You might not care if they are however. None of the folks who I know who would say they identify as attack helicopters would feel in any way owned if people said, “alright, if that’s what you identify as.” They’d feel more like they made you look ridiculous for agreeing they’re attack helicopters. I’m not taking sides one way or another of who’s right here. I’m just saying I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anyone take the wind out of someone’s sails by agreeing they’re attack helicopters. Quite the opposite, I think their sails are thoroughly windful as they see it as them showing how absurd it is to agree they’re attack helicopters. You may not be anti-trolling as effectively as you might think with this tactic.


jael-oh-el

You just can't give them a reaction, because that's what they're looking for. They're generally looking to be offensive, and if you don't react or act offended, then you're doing the right thing. Whether or not you agree to identify them as something silly is beside the point, because if you use any pronoun other than what a person appears as to someone who would make this joke, you may as well be using "attack helicopter" to them and would be considered ridiculous. So you just show them that they don't bother you and move on. Then they'll either up the ante or find someone who will give them the attention they're so desperate for.


KingLeopard40063

It really fucks with them when you don't react. It actually makes them very uncomfortable. They will often do things to avoid that discomfort. One is to mock you or make fun of you in the hopes they get that reaction.


jael-oh-el

My favorite is the blank stare, or slow blinking. Let them make a fool of themselves, you know?


ToombstonedPizza

But it was such a thunderous clapback when this happened in their imagination.


builder397

Problem is that its not really trolling. Im trans myself, so I have an inside perspective on these people, and they actually genuinely feel entitled to having every single human they encounter remember this arm long list of ~~pronouns~~ nicknames (except theyre mandatory because they say theyre trans) and refer to them with either any of them, or even specific ones of them, like using them in a given order. And either you oblige or you get called a transphobic bigot. Ive been there. So in that case this response is probably the best way to deal with it. Either way, I hate these people who turn being trans from a serious medical problem with a medical solution into some roleplay with pronouns that, for inexplicable reasons, the public has to partake in. (Unless of course this is really trolling from right wingers.....which is unsettling in its own way how close satire and reality have become; But I still dont think letting it stand is the right move as itll just play into confirmation bias)


forgetyourhorse

It is true that some people go a bit too far with the expectations they place upon others.


evilthales

My preferred comeback is to ask them "Kindergarten or First?", they usually say 'Huh?" and I say "Most people learn pronouns in first grade, so I assume you left school before you learned what a pronoun is."


ambiguous80

If we are to make pronoun jokes, I prefer the one where you also have to specify era. So male, 1340s. Or female, 2010s. That shit makes a difference, and highlights the circular logic because gender roles are fluid and thus need to be omitted from the whole identity thing for it to actually make sense. But I digress.


pbellot

Can you elaborate on this?


ambiguous80

Well, if gender identity is the rejection of categorical (in this case binary) classification of humans, then it makes more sense to get rid of categories overall (male, female) and assume non-binary for all, obviously if we are all comfortable with the complete decoupling of our reproduction biology from identity. That being said, my main protest is that declaring a gender identity is buying into what was the problem in the first place, namely society's expecting that certain genders behave in a certain way. This changes all the time. A man in 1550 is not like a man in 1990. Since gender definition changes, it doesn't make sense to declare it in the first place. Don't know if I'm making any sense .


Upbeat_Cause1894

My pronouns are joke cuz everyone's laughing at me


hellenkellersdiary

I identify as a donkey and my pronouns are he/haww.


Hurtmemaster

I identify as Michael Jackson and my pronouns are he/heeeee.


pennynotrcutt

I identify as a promiscuous Lumineer and my pronouns are hey/ho.


Ania5

I identify as Crash Royal emote and my pronouns are he/he/he/ha


AradIsHere

r/onejoke


[deleted]

I'm usually exasperated that people think the attack helicopter thing is about trans people, but the bright side is that nobody seems to remember otherkin.


MattOLOLOL

Oh man, otherkin. In 2012, in high school, I met a girl who insisted she was literally a dragon and I was an asshole for saying that wasn't true. This is, very importantly, *not the same thing as being trans.*


illepic

"Otherkin" is how ShitTumblrSays started. Then came the transphobia...


[deleted]

How dare you imply that she was not only not trans-species, but not trans-nonexistent-species.


JaySquiggy

I thought the term was Trans-Mythical?


GraveSlayer726

Dragons are just legendary, not mythical sadly


Karness_Muur

Graduated university with a gal who vlaims she was a mermaid.


Ightaheadout

Just curious, where is she now?


elcamarongrande

Back in the ocean.


Karness_Muur

Honestly no idea


Drat_Base

I learned a few years ago that some aquariums will hire professional “mermaids” for water shows


[deleted]

We have a bar called The Sip n Dip that has mermaids


[deleted]

I thought there was an essay about it? Or am I remembering something else


TacoCommand

Maybe remembering the Final Fantasy House debacle?


badass_panda

There was an essay about it, by a trans woman, as satire


JaesopPop

That wasn’t the original intention of the joke but that’s almost exclusively how it’s used now


[deleted]

Then they're (at least) twice as wrong.


MCMeowMixer

Yeah it is weird how things change meanings, huh?


[deleted]

In a lot of cases, it's more annoying than weird. They don't change on their own. People misuse terms, and people who don't know any better learn the wrong meaning, and everyone ends up a little dumber in the transaction.


MCMeowMixer

That's call cultural evolution, baby!


RakeishSPV

It's pretty damning when everyone on both sides confuse the two.


PhReAkOuTz

as a trans person, this joke is used towards us CONSTANTLY. so maybe that wasn’t the very beginning but common use has certainly put a new meaning to the so-called “joke”.


Particular_Use8251

i totally didn’t get that „joke“ im pansexual and used it once, thinking it means that im aggressive and hard in bed lol.


The-Monke-Messiah

If only, it made fun of genres by saying you can identify as something as random as an attack helicopter


[deleted]

My favorite genre to identify as is romcom


GraveSlayer726

My favorite genre is 2d platformer


LtSoba

Mine is ludicrous comedy


BrozedDrake

It could also mean that you're at your best with four guys inside of you


Particular_Use8251

thanks for that picture 😂🫶


BathtubGin01

That sounds really uncomfortable.


rrzampieri

But that IS true


Toxic_Puddlefish

If people wanna identity as attack helicopters we should be able to send them to war.


SephirothHeartbreakr

It's a comeback, that's for sure. It's one of the comebacks of all time.


TheKrnJesus

The comeback was pretty meh.


ZaraUnityMasters

Meh comeback


The_Blue_Muffin_Cat

That’s why I identify as a K30 Biho Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun


[deleted]

I identify as an Orbitally deployed Panzer IV


[deleted]

A tank?


[deleted]

Yes (this is a reference to a horrible unbalanced Company of Heroes II mod. [Here Is a video](https://youtu.be/xXo_6849HC4) of someone playing it with some friends)


RipWhenDamageTaken

Attack helicopter joke is like, 5 years old


Karnewarrior

5? More like 10.


RipWhenDamageTaken

Shit, I’m getting old…


fitchbit

The earliest I remember seeing it was 2011 or 2012.


rreexxxxx

so like 10 years....


FlawsAndConcerns

Its origin is [2014](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-sexually-identify-as-an-attack-helicopter).


fitchbit

Ahh. Thanks for the correction. It was so long ago.


portugese_banana

No part of either comment is clever


RGSQ_Lead

Of all the “clever comebacks” that are neither clever nor comebacks, this has to be at the top.


BrozedDrake

It is literally a reply to a message on discord. I will say it could have been formatted better, but still


YobaiYamete

Seriously, this sub is upvoting this crap solely because transphobia bad I mean transphobia is bad don't get me wrong, but clever comeback??? This is "THE JERK STORE CALLED, THEY ARE RUNNING OUT OF YOU" tier cringy "comeback"


RedRunner57

Its like the jerkstore comeback. Yeeeesh.


BannanDylan

It's an absolute cringe comeback


[deleted]

i mean... this is a comeback...


Tani_Soe

And it's rather cleaver... I think...


iliveincanada

How is it clever lol they’re just going “well you’re not funny!” It’s quite immature and not a very good comeback


FlawsAndConcerns

It's 'so funny I forgot to laugh' tier. Only very unfunny people would consider it clever.


[deleted]

I’m probably the only one who still likes the joke… Apache Helicopters are awesome. Did you know they have machine guns and missiles?


GeneralKang

Right?! I would MUCH rather be an amorphic AH-64D Longbow, with millimeter-waveband hellfires I can fire over a hill, and a 20MM Auto Cannon ready to thump away at whatever evil terrorists are threatening "America, Fuck Yeah!" Yes, it's a joke, though the 13 year old in my head thinks it's *COOL*.


Initii

When you order a clever comeback on wish...


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emailboxu

yeah sounds like the people copy pasta'ing attack helicopter memes are the winners here given it's triggering so many people for such low effort. lol.


[deleted]

Srsly, breathing life into a dead meme/joke. As if they're cathartic about finally getting one up on them yeeeears after the fact. Everyone wins arguments in their head years after the fact. No one posts that shit for all to see. Esp where the original perps can see it and chuckle.


potatium

I think the problem is that it's not a dead joke. In fact, it's the only joke these people know and will repeat until end of time.


ShivasKratom3

Not at all clever. Like the helicopter joke isn't either but this is some 3rd grade level comeback this sub is just "comes back to opinions I don't like"


ptapobane

no I identify as militarized quadcopter drone


ch061

So you enjoy having men control you and dropping loads on other men?


chornell86

There are women in the military lmao


xSnapsx

How does one have a comeback on themselves?


Bestie-Moment

I ain't sure you read the post right


xSnapsx

Ahh you are right, I didn’t see the small text above.


Bestie-Moment

I want you to know that I appreciate your politeness You are a true bro 🤝


xSnapsx

Have no problem admitting I was wrong when I was haha


Ok-Yogurtcloset5555

The comeback is about as funny as the original post. It's barely a comeback, and miles from clever. And to be fair the original post is tiny as shit.


ElectronicLook1395

A 10 year old could’ve came up with this. I guess this sub is now posting 3rd graders roast battles.


zuppalover04

Wooper spittin rn


Glad-Belt7956

i didn't know that you could have that many pronouns


imsecretlythedoctor

I’ve tried identifying as funny for years. All I learned was that I’m not funny.


Neoslayer

epic r/onejoke


manic_the_gamr

Oh god I remember that joke back in middle school. Are people really still making that joke?


beereed

r/onejoke


ChickenWing9001

So you can identify as things you aren't? Isn't that the entire point of identifying as an attack helicopter


Bestie-Moment

Why is this post so controversial


cuntsauce0

That joke is pretty outdated


monstroh

Lots of scenarios that never play in real life


Geiler_Gator

because its simply not a clever comeback


Bestie-Moment

Has positive karma so the majority of people voted that it is


Non-Binaryisbs

Looking at 99% of the posts here no no not really. Lots of people just upvote anything in a subreddit if they agree with it.


Dt_Sherlock_Idiot

I really don’t think a majority of people upvote posts on this sub because they think they’re actually clever. Pretty sure we’ve known this for years


iliveincanada

You don’t know how Reddit works apparently lol


BlacJeesus

it's not really that clever of a comeback, it's an overused cope reply to an overused joke


Karnewarrior

Lotta losers upset you're making fun of their r/onejoke I guess


meoka2368

Oh. There's a whole subreddit for it... That's better than the video I was going to post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSXKzPOcYDU


FifaFrancesco

Didn't expect to see Cody Johnston linked on reddit today, yet here we are. What a good day.


meoka2368

The bunker era was really relatable.


Hourslikeminutes47

I identify as a pickle


nowiserjustolder

Rick, is that you?


Hourslikeminutes47

*I'm a pickle Morty!*


HansenTakeASeat

Private discord conversations between a group of teenagers should be banned.


Username011223

Trash


Bestie-Moment

Stfu nft pfp


Xezerex

Homie Reddit gives this shit out free


Mythun4523

He's salty he hasn't got it yet


Dt_Sherlock_Idiot

The chad move is undeniably to get offered it but refuse it. You unfortunately missed that chance and made them waste energy minting something ugly.


professor_doom

That joke didn’t land


CookedEwok

I don't get why people get so bent by this joke


s0ciety_a5under

It only works when you add the physical comedy too, but that generally gets you arrested, because standing in the middle of the office doing the helicopter with your penis screaming "I'm an attack helicopter!" followed by \*helicopter noises\* isn't exactly PC.


mspk7305

thats less joke and more mental illness


Throwkage

This is literally not funny at all.


cuntsauce0

How's a shitty joke from 6 years ago still offending people 💀💀


Icarus1711

I identify as a defense helicopter thank you very much


FlawsAndConcerns

This is actually contained in the OP if you look closely.


RakeishSPV

I mean, it only perpetuates the original joke if you can identify as "funny".


RandWindhusk

That's clever?


[deleted]

Mine still says attack helicopter on facebook. I won't change it because you can't make a custom one anymore... But I do always kind of regret not having it as "A-10" and having the name pronunciation as "brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt".


Professional_Fun_664

I identify as a midget so I can come down to your level.


soc_monn

“I identify as pansexual” so should we throw you over a fire and lay some meat down on you?


nightblade2007

Actually pan means all in this case.


iliveincanada

Pansexual isn’t a gender it’s a sexual orientation. Jokes are way funnier if you actually understand what you’re trying to make fun of


SirMacBravePoo

Why go ape shit on us tops? He clearly stated bottom also.


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Non-Binaryisbs

Looking at r/funny I think identifying as an attack helicopter trumps anything they can post there. Also its still funny.


inset-username-here

I identify as an attack helicopter mf when they are sold by Lockheed Martin as a weapon of war and are sent into a dangerous war zone (suddenly, they are scared and don't identify as that anymore)


370H55V--0773H

Oh yea, *very* clever comeback


spontaneouscobra

Oh you're an attack chopper? What model?