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The first and only good babylonbee article

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[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 199 points 1 month ago (4 children)

At first I was surprised this was coming from the Fascist friendly Bee, but then I read it and realized they're trying to sound sarcastic, but making the correct point perfectly. This is fucking meta.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 80 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s like some kind of reverse Poe’s law, when the sarcasm of the outrageous minded is indistinguishable from a sane opinion.

Also Godwin’s law.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This whole thing is cracking me up. I can imagine them writing all sorts of articles like "Democrats want ALL people to have access to basic needs like food, shelter, education, and health care." Then MAGAts reading that just laughing their heads off while the rest of us are just stuck wondering where the joke is.

[–] UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, democrats don't really want that. What Bernie stated yesterday is correct, they have turned their backs to the working class

[–] drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is mind blowing and I really hope it's just funny later. I really really do.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

We wanted it to "be funny later" during his first term.

It wasn't.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He's making a list, he's checking it twice

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

We're ALL fucked, and it won't be nice.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

It's some real self-awarewolf shit.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reality got so bad that satire can only state fact.

[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There was a political realignment after the civil war where the democrat and the republican parties switched roles as liberals and conservatives.

Now there's a factual realignment, where reality and satire switch which one is absurd and which one is correct when taken at face value

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fuck.

People using "literally" to mean "figuratively" really was only the beginning?

90s me would be sadly satisfied with how shit's going right now. Like, everyone prefers to be right, but sometimes the Schadenfreude isn't worth the squeeze.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 4 points 1 month ago

literally has literally never been used literally