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Hyperbole is often an essential part of humor, dark or otherwise.
I don't feel like the hyperbole defense really cuts it when a significant number of people think the hyperbole is true. You can find an example of that happening in this same thread and I've had plenty of other interactions like it. For every person who takes it as hyperbole, there's another who genuinely feels like we're staring down the barrel of WW3, and that kind of fear is dangerous and harmful.
It's never "Just a joke" when the joke is hurting people.