• 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it
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        2 months ago

        I mean, technically: the most powerful man in the world cannot do satire, because it requires punching up.

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          2 months ago

          There is a lot of punching up he can do: morality, intelligence, compassion, basic human decency. When you’re at the very bottom of something, there’s nowhere else to punch but up.

    • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I wish our journalists did ANY amount of push-back because calling it satire is just a red herring and I wish they wouldn’t even engage with it.

      OK, let’s assume it is satire used to make a point. What point exactly was he making? That he IS a king and is shitting on us all?

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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      2 months ago

      Yeah that’s not what satire means. And it isn’t funny either; but I know that half the pop doesn’t know any other type of “humor”. Literally shitting on other people, hahahaha

      • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Shatire.

        You just know that was tossed around Colbert’s writer’s room, before they decided that might wind up with them off the air sooner.