• PolymathGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    14 hours ago

    This is so ridiculous and absurd it HAS to be satire. Either that or Poe’s Law got me. This just seems too hyperbolic and flippant to be somebody being for real and genuine

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      10 hours ago

      This should have been immediately obviously that it was satire.

      A trick to tell if something is satire is to consider what would have to be true for it not to be satire and why they would use that tone, and then weigh what’s more likely.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        3 hours ago

        I call it the Flat Earth conundrum. There is no comment so stupid that someone won’t make it unironically.

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          3 hours ago

          I am just waiting for someone to utterly fail at basic reading comprehension, be told the correct answer, and then comment, unironically “well the fact I imagined someone that dumb says a lot about society”

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            2 hours ago

            I have experienced it in the other direction, the other day. There was a comment that was so ridiculously racist that it had to be a bit, for sure, racists wouldn’t say things like that. Nope. They apparently would.