• MrVilliam@lemm.ee
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      4 days ago

      This. Conservatives have poor media literacy. They don’t understand that they’re the punchline in stuff like that. They miss the point of stuff like RoboCop and Starship Troopers and unironically like those movies for the action and don’t even recognize the social commentary. They watched Team America and guffawed into their 24 packs of light beer at every shallow joke without recognizing that the jokes were intentionally shallow to point out what an idiot would think is a good joke. It’s like the TV show in Idiocracy. The real joke is below the surface.

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        I used to watch Colbert Report with my dad and it took him years to realize that it was a parody mocking him often personally. My dad was not a dumb man. The conservative bubble is hard to pop. Its like a Stockholm syndrome victim sympathizing with their attacker.

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          It blows my mind that when Colbert got his new job he had people coming up to him for years saying they liked his old show better.

          They liked his old show, The Colbert Report, better. When it was clearly satire.

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            His old show was better. But I can’t imagine it working well any more, when reality is already so absurd.

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      Literally the opposite…

      Where are you see conservatives talking about how great America has been under Bidnen?

      Like, you put zero thinking into your comment, just like you assume the people you’re “dunking on” do.

      You’re a different side of the same coin, that’s never meant opposites, you’re th same thing.

      Just neither sid bis smart enough to figure it out, and both think only the other side is dumb