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The Case for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (www.theatlantic.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Routhinator@startrek.website to c/politics@lemmy.world

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This is the most unfiltered article I've read from The Atlantic... by the time I finished the second paragraph I had to re-read the title to understand how I got here.

Edit: To be clear, this has been revealed as satire, its just so close to reality one could be forgiven for confusing the two.

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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 months ago

I honestly can't tell if this opinion piece is genuine or just satire because of how much it jumps the fucking shark "I have Fissures in my Rectum that wouldn't be there if I was treated by an American doctor unlike my doctor Hussein from Mexico."

And I feel like the title of novelist is being used very loosely.

[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 7 points 4 months ago

I went back and forth on this exact thought and thats why I shared it. I kept thinking "surely this is The Onion"?

[-] g0nz0li0@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

It's a satire piece meant to highlight the absurdity of conservative positions despite how they are presented matter-of-fact in the mainstream. Would love a non paywalled linked to read it all.

[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There is an archive.org link in one of the comments.

Also I'm not sure how but the Nextcloud News app bypasses The Atlantics paywall via the RSS feed.. so i constantly forget its paywalled. ☠️

Edit: bringing the link to you: https://archive.is/XdvbR

[-] Hazzia@infosec.pub 3 points 4 months ago

The first line is "I’m a lifelong registered Republican who has voted for Donald J. Trump in the past five presidential elections."

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Shteyngart

"Much of his work is satirical."

[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 7 points 4 months ago

Man, I will be amazed if this is in fact a really well played troll that got the media to take him seriously and interview him for an article and he just stayed in character...

Then again, after all the things we've seen from MAGA, I can still see this being serious.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 8 points 4 months ago

I thought this was a fairly obvious piece of satire. Got a giggle out of me, for sure.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 11 points 4 months ago

I like the part where he voted for Trump five times.

[-] Tzayad@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

And all the anal fissures

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

And that was just counting the last election!

[-] Impound4017@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

This might be the funniest thing I’ve ever read. This shit has me in tears lmao

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Fuck it, upvoted. This douchecunt draws more from trump’s base than Harris’. Fuck the republican traitor filth.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Whoa, JOE ROGAN is hanging out on Lemmy. We should all feel so privileged to his opinions! /s

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

It’s hilarious that he shot himself in the dick.

[-] RangerJosie@sffa.community 7 points 4 months ago

No thanks. No more dynasties. No more Bushs, Clintons, or Kennedys.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I would rather vote for his dead brain worm.

[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 months ago

I'm voting for his dead bear cub.

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Are we still talking about his case of brain worms? That case?

[-] Kingofthezyx@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

https://archive.is/XdvbR

Archived version

[-] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Narrator - "There isn't one."

[-] kikutwo@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

"being placed in a sanitarium."

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

NOPE. Fuck you.

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