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Trump insists it's very normal for the winners of wars to pay billions to the losers (www.thebeaverton.com)
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[–] 8 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I feel like a lot of this satire stuff is starting to really push the boundary of just being misinforming or at least very confusing.

Yeah, yeah, I know you can say, well, that's reality's fault for being so close to satire. Or the fact that this is believable basically makes it just as good as being true.

But I don't know. I think the time for satire is kind of past. I'm not sure that it serves any good. It's not really funny. All it does is make me frustrated about situations that didn't even exactly actually happen. When I'm already frustrated about the real thing that the satire is based on, it doesn't provide any sort of catharsis. And there are definitely at least some people who get confused and misinformed by it.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    “Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously, and the politicians as a joke, when it used to be vice versa.”

    • Will Rogers in the 1920s

    It's always been this way unfortunately...

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

    I believe it's done a lot of damage to political discourse in general. It's normalized the "dunking on your opponent" shit to the point that people go for that stuff over actual logical discussion and this has allowed all these grifters to get their feet into the door of politics. I really don't think we'd have had Trump getting memed into the white house the first time if satirizing politics hadn't become so mainstream.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Seems kind of insane to put that all at the feet of satire

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Well, the root of the problem is that most people are fucking morons who can't think critically. Satire isn't fully to blame but I think it pushed enough people into getting more politically involved to get him over the line. The "LOL Trump is owning the Libs" crowd probably wouldn't have voted so much if there wasn't a ton of memeing about it going on the internet. It also didn't help that the Dems ran Hillary against him.

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