• @[email protected]
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    14610 months ago

    In this thread: People who are incapable of understanding the most transparently obvious satire ever written.

    • @[email protected]
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      3810 months ago

      People have said so much insane shit over the years that it is genuinely becoming harder and harder to tell what is being said sarcastically and what is not

        • @Wogi
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          1810 months ago

          I mean I’ve heard more idiotic shit said sincerely.

            • @Wogi
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              410 months ago

              You fools! You’re raging WITH the machine! THAT’S the machine!!

        • @[email protected]
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          510 months ago

          I have met people who do believe everything the meme said unironically, though. They’re rank authoritarians.

          • @[email protected]
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            310 months ago

            Yeah I guess that’s fair, there are a lot of those types in the world in recent years…

        • @[email protected]
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          110 months ago

          Also, posted in a meme community. So, like…doubly obvious to anyone who spent literally more than a second thinking about what they were reading.

      • @[email protected]
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        510 months ago

        This is a laundry list of things that are just very obviously the opposite of punk, though. It’s like if you asked someone to define “anti-punk,” they’d rattle of something very similar to this. It’s also in “Microblog Memes,” a meme community. The things posted here are jokes, and as such its nature as a joke is reinforced by the context in which the text is presented. This is Media Literacy 101, stuff.

      • kamen
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        110 months ago

        If someone in full seriousness says something like in the screenshot, it unintentionally becomes satirical.

    • nifty
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      10 months ago

      I mean it’s a dead giveaway at the first bullet, but I totally get the knee jerk reaction because there were people who said Green day had “lost their way”.

      That said, always thought Green Day was everything wrong with punk because of how pop they were when they first started. To me they’re still pretty pop. They’re like the hot topic of punk.

      • @rwhitisissle
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        710 months ago

        Green Day is “mainstream punk.” Which is as damning a description of a punk band as you can probably get without calling them cryptofascist.

        • nifty
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          210 months ago

          They’re pop rock, basically.

        • @lunarul
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          210 months ago

          Huh, I always thought they were alt rock.

      • @grepe
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        210 months ago

        Also the unconditional support for military (especially veterans) is a cultural point that many otherwise OK people have big trouble with…