• zigmus64@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      None of them strike me as parody…. Plenty of folks behave as though they believe this stuff heartily. Many of them are in Milwaukee right now.

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      4 months ago

      Parody and satire have taken a real beating in the last years so I’d say ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      4 months ago

      I’ll counter and say even if they are… FB and insta morons gobble up parody. They have no idea what it is. You post this over there and I guarantee you’ll get 10,000 comments agreeing with it seriously.

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      None of them are parody. Some of them feel like parody, but the poster is dead serious.

      If these were supposed to be parody, we’d see a few that weren’t subtle. If they were just riffing, some would be so hyperbolic that there would be no doubt that the poster wasn’t being serious.

      Instead we have a mix of memes that either kinda feel like a joke, or come across as completely serious. We can assume that whoever uploaded these earnestly identifies with each of these.

      That person is extremely stupid. Dangerously stupid, even.