One year at Anime Central, I decided I needed to touch up my makeup. Being a crossplayer but not being excessively stupid, I went to the mens' room for this. The mirror doesn't give a shit. Now the bathrooms in the Hyatt at the time were at opposite ends of a T-shaped hallway. The bottom of the...
"Comrade General Secretary, I am told you have a hobby?"
"Yes, I collect political anecdotes."
"How many have you collected so far?"
"Three and a half labor camps."
I have heard this one too, but with the explanation "The first can read, the second can write, and the third is to keep watch over the two intelligentsia"
Oh, if you liked that one, there's several other jokes along the same lines, my favorite of which goes something like this:
A traveller on a long trip books into a shared room to get some sleep. Unfortunately for him, his roommates are a group of inebriated men who are telling political jokes...
Author is at least subconsciously calling back to the (first) YKK chapter "Everyone's Ships". They don't want to be in Alpha's position:
-- Alpha, on Takahiro and Makki.