• grue@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    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.

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        28 days ago

        That’s Babylon Bee-style humor, that is, ideology dressed up as humor. It’s “funny,” but doesn’t make you actually laugh.

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      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.