It was just too much set up. The whole point of the joke is that the set up is a whole bunch of listing Holocaust level terrible things and then super quickly pulling the rug out from under you as if your uncle is just making an off the cuff declaration.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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