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Sure, could be. Who knows why they didn't laugh. Maybe they had just had a big fight and were trying to make nice. Maybe they were on their way to a funeral. Maybe the joker had been staring uncomfortably at them before telling the joke. Maybe they just suck as humans, who can say. I guess my point is that it's hard to know why someone doesn't laugh at a joke, and jumping to "those people just suck" as a first resort is a thing that people do when they don't want to think critically about how they are received by other people.
Agreed the purpose of saying they suck is to stop thinking critically about how the joke was received [and move on without doing too much mindreading].