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[–] 5 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Since you actually asked, rather than just reposting that picture, here's my issue:

I could potentially get behind the idea of an onion-esque satire of the current state of our world. However, everyone on here knows that the onion is satire. Whenever anyone calls your works into question, your response is not to clarify that it is satire, but to troll them. On another post, someone said "could I get a source for this" , and you just responded with a link to the same post. You have made up many different things on this new community, and while some of them are pretty clearly fake (like this one), others are so nearly plausible, or require actual technical knowledge to understand why they are implausible, that people are seriously engaging with these.

Basically, you're too good at your job, and in a world where satirists are becoming more reliable journalists than the actual journalists, creating a one-man-band to troll people with shitposts that are nowhere labeled as such is, I believe, damaging to the community of Lemmy. We have a hard enough time trying to keep the hankies from filling the entire space with authoritarian propaganda. We don't need a load of posts further undermining credibility.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    And I agree with you on the "ate the onion" part, but even the onion and mcsweeneys have come to accept that, in our current world, satire has to be approached differently.

    As for the disingenuous and patronizing walmart shit, see my "strawman" comment on your other post. I'm not going to keep wasting my time repeating myself to you about why your strawman accusation of supporting corporations is so shitty.

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    I'm sorry, I must not have been clear with my strawman accusation:

    When someone in the comments challenges you, you post that picture saying how sorry you are that you're hurting some megacorp's brand image, or otherwise. You paint the person criticising you as if they are trying to defend Walmart, Amazon, or the US Government. THAT is a strawman, and is a lazy deflection tactic away from their valid criticisms.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Ah, I think I figured it out. No, it's not about propaganda in politics. Actually, the thing which is most annoying is that im pretty sure that you and I agree that these corporations are awful. But what you see as satirising the corporations, I see differently, because to me, corporations are the only political players that matter. They have all the money, and all the power, and I think that crying wolf about tiny things that the megacorps never really did actually does desensitise people to the tiny (and great) indignities to which these corporations actually subject the world. So, in another comment you asked me with which stories I take issue, and my answer is this: any which paints a corporation, capitalist, or despotic regime as doing something it has not actually done, as these false stories read like real ones, and cheapen the very cause with which I believe you and I both agree.

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    Absolutely. My only concern has been how many people have been eating your particular onion, in a time when our society really needs to be focused on the very real things being satirised, and not believing things that are literally branded as false. As such, anything I can do to make it clear that these are onions, I will do. I just think you could do more to make it clear that they're fake.

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