• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      You’re all just wrong.

      Satire has to be more absurd than reality - no matter how absurd reality gets. Otherwise it’s just lying. There’s no punch, in the punchline. This headline, god help us all, is plausible.

      This is a rare case of The Onion fumbling as hard as IsGlitch. If you have to see that it’s from a known comedy website, to figure out it’s not real, the headline has failed as comedy.

      • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 day ago

        You’re gonna hate to find out that “w00t” is in the dictionary, “decimate” has been nerfed by dialectic morphology via anti-literacy engineering, and no one can never go home again.

        Stop shouting like a pedant, and get back in line with the rest of us, cuz’.

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          23 hours ago

          This isn’t a matter of “satire” versus “comedy.” This is about bad comedy. This is… not… funny. People believe it. They had to check that it was not simply true.

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            21 hours ago

            By your overly simplistic metric, Idiocracy is no longer satire, Teach’. 🤷🏼‍♂️🤪

            Take a breath. Count your eyelashes. Whatever. Just, breathe.

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              21 hours ago

              Why is “by your logic” never ever followed by someone’s logic?

              You’re an unpleasant tone-policing troll. You’ve never understood this conversation. Shoo.

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                20 hours ago

                Says the one getting pounded by downvotes. I’m all for you finding your inner power-bottom, but lying to randos online begins with lying to yourself, friend, and that’s the travesty that keeps on giving. 🤌🏼