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Re:Defending parody: the most important amicus brief yet by stjohnswarts on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @09:52AM (#33176982)
I feel this is a direct result of safe zones and everything "woke". People have lost the ability evidently to handle criticism, other people's ideas, and even egalitarianism. You have a new take on what is society? Quit looking for a safe zone and stuff it down people's throats and tell them to fucking deal with it, but don't demand others give you a safe zone (barring violence, which is never okay, and you should go to jail for that). I guess I just came out of the punk/gen-x generation, but holy shit are people too sensitive.
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Re:Defending parody: the most important amicus brief yet by misnome on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @10:12AM (#33177237)
"Police arrest man for parodying police is the fault of wokeness gone mad" is certainly A Take.
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Re:Defending parody: the most important amicus brief yet by croisillon on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @10:17AM (#33177308)
i heard recently that one country attacked another one out of fear that the latter would adhere to an alliance defending it from being attacked by the former
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Re:Defending parody: the most important amicus brief yet by RGamma on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @11:03AM (#33178007)
Reminds me of this related take: https://ibb.co/zVFw2C2
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Re:Defending parody: the most important amicus brief yet by yellsatclouds on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @11:39AM (#33178602)
that's the essential (mobster) insurance business, though if done by predefined criminals it's called a protection racket, if done by legal obligation is ccalled 'liability compliance'

the world is run by a mafia all the way to the top.

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Re:Defending parody: the most important amicus brief yet by yellsatclouds on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @11:37AM (#33178561)
your statement has way too many relative references, you speak of the latter, and the former, and the alliances between the opposition of the former against the alleged plans of the latter in a scenario where one invades a soon to be allied 3rd party

my point being is that in trying to sound serious and formal you've imposed on your reader an extra layer of unacking your point which you also had to needlessly pack so you'd sound like I already said (see: I did it again, put in a reference instead of repeating cuz it makes me sound more serious and 'deep')

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Re:Defending parody: the most important amicus brief yet by drdeca on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:47PM (#33179601)
This is why natural language should add support for defining named variables.

Can we get that in the next edition of the standard?

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Re:Defending parody: the most important amicus brief yet by misnome on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @02:05PM (#33180681)
Unless I'm completely missing an extra layer of satire here (which would be topical), I think that they were doing it deliberately.
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