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[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I feel like you might be ignoring the purpose of satirical content. IMO, it serves two purposes: the first is to entertain and consolidate people who already agree with the message, the second is to raise cognitive dissonance in those that disagree with the message by raising awareness of hypocrisy.

As someone who cut their teeth on 4chan and ended up harbouring some fairly bigoted views, political satire is a large part of why I eventually abandoned those views.

To write it off as ineffective or even counterproductive seems to me to be a gross misunderstanding of its purpose.

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