1621

It’s definitely satire. She’s making fun of people arguing against equal pay, or previously, making fun of the idea of straight pride.

1622

I get it once someone says hey yeah that’s satire. Just like every time someone reminds me i am reading something on Onion or that other one that pops up now. It’s just… doesn’t seem like satire when you actually know people like that, in the flesh.

1623

Satire kind of requires that the subject of the satire exists, yes.

1624

Yeah, I get that. I just engage some of these ideas more regularly than maybe some others.

I’m not really going to defend myself here. I miss satire, all the time. You can just classify this as right alongside some Monk tendencies there are some Sheldon too. I don’t recognize it from people or sources I don’t regularly engage with.

1625

It’s fine, missing a joke is no big deal.

1626

I think it’s happening to all of us more and more these days.

1627

But if the subjects of the satire are already going far beyond the norm, then it’s hard to tell where the satire starts. I mean, a lot of the stuff the right wing in the US says these days would have been 100% satire a decade or two ago, and now it’s in our faces, in reality. That makes satire hard to do, and hard to detect.

1628

Poe’s Law.

1629

Yeah, these days I take anything that it’s reported as Trump saying at face value. Later I find out if it’s real or not.

1630

Jokes and satire at Internet speed don’t always go over as well.

1631

For pity’s sake. Sbarro. The worst pizza in the entire world.

1632

You realize it’s satire, right?

1633

Life itself is satire these days

1634

I used to work at a Regal shoe store in Kings Plaza Mall in Brooklyn. We were the first Regal location to break $1,000,000 in a year. Our regional manager came by, the day the numbers were released. As a celebratory lunch he brought us across the mall to Sbarro’s. I made it my duty to get a crapload of food and eat almost none of it.

1635

I will credit these people with the worst taste in the world.

1636

By “these people”, you mean the writers of The Office?

1637

The woman satire videos would work better if they were actually, I dunno, funny or something?

1638

This is just government by fuck you.

1639

https://mississippitoday.org/2019/07/09/robert-foster-gop-governor-candidate-denies-woman-reporter-access-because-of-her-gender/

This seems nonsensical.

1640

I’m entirely inclined to think he’s a typical GOP sexist idiot. I say inclined because I’m not in politics. I truly have no clue how bad it is these days with all the dirt slinging that is going on. Yes, it seems ridiculous.