• yemmly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    291·
    11 months ago

    I don’t understand why people think OP doesn’t know it’s satire.

    • Cosmicomical@kbin.social
      14·
      11 months ago

      Anything that is subject to Poe’s law is going to be divisive shit that polarizes people. You are 100% sure it’s satire and your uncle is going to be 100% sure it’s meant to be taken seriously. Everybody laughs at thw counterpart and retreats further in their original opinion.

      • yemmly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        Turns out there’s a bug in the client I’m using and it wasn’t showing the comment about anti-intellectualism. All the comments I could see were replies to that comment that I couldn’t see, so I assumed they were replies to OP.

    • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      Remember when /r/conspiracy was satire. Or BirdsArentReal, or FlatEarth?

      Yeah, turns out there’s a reason satire is hugely divisive. Dumb people and many ND can’t tell the difference lol.

  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    11 months ago

    Carefully tries to hide Rayo’s number under a carpet

    Carpet and surroundings are promptly sucked into an information density formed black hole.

  • niktemadur@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    11 months ago

    They have played us for absolute fools

    Who is “they”?
    “They… you know… they. The librul… mooslem… communist… trans… lizard overlord… libruls!”

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.deEnglish
      23·
      11 months ago

      I wanted to say that nobody in their right mind would take these seriously. But then I remembered the general state of mind of people.

      • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        I saw someone else post this:

        The legal presumption of the “reasonable person”, often criticised by legal scholars, has most successfully been debunked, of all things, by social media.

      • Lath@kbin.social
        21·
        11 months ago

        The right state of mind is boring. People only want boring when excitement becomes tiresome.

    • Th4tGuyII@kbin.social
      12·
      11 months ago

      Except that it is clearly satire - it’s poking fun at the idea of anti-intellectualism.

      Having said that, one could argue Poe’s law - it can be hard to tell these days what’s satire and what’s not, and not everybody is laughing at anti-intellectualism

    • PugJesus@kbin.social
      131·
      11 months ago

      You may be misinterpreting the meme - it’s meant to be intentionally silly, anti-anti-intellectual if anything. “YEARS yet no REAL WORLD USE found for counting any higher than your FINGERS” is definitely poking fun at people who think that higher academic notions are useless.