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[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I feel like a lot of this satire stuff is starting to really push the boundary of just being misinforming or at least very confusing.

Yeah, yeah, I know you can say, well, that's reality's fault for being so close to satire. Or the fact that this is believable basically makes it just as good as being true.

But I don't know. I think the time for satire is kind of past. I'm not sure that it serves any good. It's not really funny. All it does is make me frustrated about situations that didn't even exactly actually happen. When I'm already frustrated about the real thing that the satire is based on, it doesn't provide any sort of catharsis. And there are definitely at least some people who get confused and misinformed by it.

[–] RottenState@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

“Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously, and the politicians as a joke, when it used to be vice versa.”

  • Will Rogers in the 1920s

It's always been this way unfortunately...

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