I think about this often. The Onion can’t hit it anymore, and all they’d need to do would be to write stories about Trump donating to children or reading books to elderly or basically anything make a wish foundation or your local superhero teacher does. Or, just copy anything that he’s actually doing, but since it’s the onion, people would be shook to anger by reality but laugh at the cleverness and saddened by the pain.
The trouble is, it isn’t symmetric that way. MAGA hypocrites would simply gleefully shout it from the rooftops as fact and it would end up being a propaganda coup in their favor, satire be damned.
See also: the bullshit asymmetry principle, The Card Says “Moops”, that quote by Jean-Paul Sartre, etc.
Yeah I was thinking about that. The Onion would say “Trump saves puppy” and magas would just believe it…
So no only is it not symmetric because of the bullshit-proof rule or the confirmation biases… But these people are not normal. They’re some of the dumbest and most belligerent people in existence. Literally, a special breed of stupid.
How would you even apply satire to this caricature of a man?
Have him say something intelligent
I think about this often. The Onion can’t hit it anymore, and all they’d need to do would be to write stories about Trump donating to children or reading books to elderly or basically anything make a wish foundation or your local superhero teacher does. Or, just copy anything that he’s actually doing, but since it’s the onion, people would be shook to anger by reality but laugh at the cleverness and saddened by the pain.
The trouble is, it isn’t symmetric that way. MAGA hypocrites would simply gleefully shout it from the rooftops as fact and it would end up being a propaganda coup in their favor, satire be damned.
See also: the bullshit asymmetry principle, The Card Says “Moops”, that quote by Jean-Paul Sartre, etc.
They could have him read to children at a drag book reading.
That’s Babylon Bee-style humor, that is, ideology dressed up as humor. It’s “funny,” but doesn’t make you actually laugh.
Yeah I was thinking about that. The Onion would say “Trump saves puppy” and magas would just believe it…
So no only is it not symmetric because of the bullshit-proof rule or the confirmation biases… But these people are not normal. They’re some of the dumbest and most belligerent people in existence. Literally, a special breed of stupid.