Porygon [she/any]

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Cake day: November 27th, 2024

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  • This is waaaay too soon to be funny.

    Any attempts at satire mimicing current politics will just be depressing. The politicians you’re making fun of end up unironically repeating the satire, bar for bar, in a way that is worse that anyone could have imagined. Your community is pushing that line a bit too far. Personally, it’s not even that I had to question whether it’s satire, but rather that I knew 100% that it’s satire while also realizing that someone in the White House would totally and unironically agree with some of it.

    Honestly, “NotTheOnion” communities have crazier, more out-of-pocket headlines than The Onion now, and I don’t think it’s even that close. IMO charged satire like that community, even if it’s making fun of bad people, needs a break until reality gets less chaotic. Maybe in the future this will be something we can all just “laugh off” with jokes but right now things are way more serious than that for a lot of people and these attempts at dark satire just make that worse for them even when it’s obviously a joke.