This story sounds like something that would happen in the early days of communist china, or during the khmer rouge takeover of Cambodia. Laughing at a joke?... off to the killing fields with you. The left are psychopathic. They’d send ‘straights’ and conservatives to their deaths in a heartbeat.
Big Beautiful Woman.
A Soviet judge exited the courtroom, laughing hysterically. An attorney saw him and asked, “What is so funny?”
The judge wiped his eyes and said, “Oh, I can’t tell you, I just gave a man five years for that joke.”
You are so right. These are the indoctrination phases of forming a Red Guard. Persecutions and murder to follow.