Does making Cold War jokes violate R8?

[Treble]

I want to make a joke about how suggesting X shows why a certain poster's side lost the Cold War, with X being what I believe to be an impractical suggestion.

Does that violate R8 or R1?

 

[tacobowl8]

Well, at a high level, bringing up Cold War era stuff is old enough it probably won't spark an argument, so it probably wouldn't fit R8.

On the other hand, the way you describe it, it almost sounds like a derail is already taking place (Why would bringing up which side a poster belongs/belonged to for the Cold War be at all relevant to whatever topic at hand? MAYBE some history thread, maybe...). Actually thinking more, it would be poking at the poster themselves, instead of a topic, so regardless of whether it would be on topic or not, it would be getting into Rule 1 territory.

Now, whether it would break Rule 1, well, would have to see it exactly and the context it would be used in, but it would need to be extremely well done AND on topic to be fine.

I'd probably just hold off and not make the joke.

 

[Treble]

I'd probably just hold off and not make the joke.

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Then that decides it.

Btw, the joke was about how the other poster lacks a good understanding of economics because he suggested something that would be highly impractical from an economical perspective.