• yemmly@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I don’t understand why people think OP doesn’t know it’s satire.

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      11 months ago

      Anything that is subject to Poe’s law is going to be divisive shit that polarizes people. You are 100% sure it’s satire and your uncle is going to be 100% sure it’s meant to be taken seriously. Everybody laughs at thw counterpart and retreats further in their original opinion.

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        11 months ago

        Turns out there’s a bug in the client I’m using and it wasn’t showing the comment about anti-intellectualism. All the comments I could see were replies to that comment that I couldn’t see, so I assumed they were replies to OP.

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      11 months ago

      Remember when /r/conspiracy was satire. Or BirdsArentReal, or FlatEarth?

      Yeah, turns out there’s a reason satire is hugely divisive. Dumb people and many ND can’t tell the difference lol.