• ZeroCool@lemmy.caOP
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    13 hours ago

    Dude, it’s just satire. Best not to over think it, lest you become the butt of the joke.

    • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
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      7 hours ago

      So satire doesn’t mean anything, humor is always empty, comedy has never been a tool of power, and all meaning must be free of fun?

      or can you just let someone post a thoughtful reply without putting them down?

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        7 hours ago

        @TimewornTraveler
        Ope! Too late. You became the butt of the joke. People without self introspection always making themselves the butt of the joke.
        Doubly so, because all the web sites you named from back in the day were as heavily monetized as they could have been at the time.

        @ZeroCool

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          7 hours ago

          Not sure who you think you’re replying to. I’m just jabbing at someone who thinks “Satire=No Thinking”, since that’s obviously such an absurd position that is ignorant of the history of satire in our cultures.

          Lacking introspection… you’re reading a lot into my post based on your own assumptions. I never mentioned any websites. There’s some introspection lacking on your part there too. I was wondering what joke you think you were making that I’m the butt of… then I got it. You’re only pretending to be an idiot, as a joke, right? You got me!

    • Lumidaub@feddit.org
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      7 hours ago

      Nothing is “just satire”. The point of satire is to be taken seriously to some degree and to be thought about. It has failed its purpose if it doesn’t criticise something, even the tiniest aspect of something.

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      9 hours ago

      Two things can be true at once. Were our memes peak? No! We’re they at least not slightly veiled advertisement? Maybe the vast minority.

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      12 hours ago

      I literally could not care less if you disapprove of my response to literally anything.