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Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? by IAmBroom on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @09:19AM (#47674957)
Millions of people find The Onion funny; you do not.

Do you see the difference?

Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? by Zigurd on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @09:26AM (#47675056)
TBF millions of people are going to demand that you respect their claim that they are not "political."
Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? by Fnoord on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @09:58AM (#47675494)
Demanding to respect a claim is a political act by itself.

Something being 'political' or not is a red herring. Politics is deeply ingrained in our society. How much is it ingrained? It is a spectrum, not a binary proposition. Trying to portrait it as a proposition is trying to oversimplify, removing nuance.

All it does is it wants people to ignore issues and let different political wings try to live in 'harmony' with each other by pretending the other side doesn't exist. This strategy doesn't work, and will hit in the face like a boomerang.

Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? by Zigurd on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @10:30AM (#47675983)
I evidently erroneously omitted the /s but really it's more snark
Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? by Fnoord on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @01:11PM (#47678402)
Wasn't evident to me.