'This scenario was an obvious joke.'
Not necessarily 'obviously'. Watch me post an 'Onion' spoof one of these days and see how the nuttier members here take it seriously.
The less-nutty CT veterans here will pretend to take an LN spoof seriously in an attempt to make the poster look even nuttier than themselves.
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Mr Elliott is making a fallacious argument using " reductio ad absurdum".
Look it up, you might learn something.