The problem with Babylon Bee is that conservatives aren’t smart enough to know it’s satire. So now we have to rebut and defend against the bullshit they read there as if it were real.
The Babylon Bee also makes articles under the guise of satire in an attempt to take advantage of this very fact. They're basically a misinformation source that calls themselves satire because they know their base will take them seriously, but they can deny it. They're basically Fox News calling themselves the onion.
Yep, they are not satire at all, recently a video from them popped up in my feed, that's about gender reassignment surgery, there was nothing satirical or funny about it
Entertainment. They said they can't be sued because no one would take them seriously because they aren't news, they are "entertainment." They won.
That was fucking ridiculous. As if there's not ample evidence that millions of people take Fox News seriously.
I think calling conservatives "dumb" is needlessly inflammatory, and what's worse, is it's incorrect. They just fall for a common human failing: confirmation bias, amongst other well known fallacies.
"They're not dumb, they're just worse at processing information than their other fellow humans."
It's not our fault reality scares conservatives. It's their fault for refusing to make friends with what they cannot change. If the unknown scares them so much, what they should do is get familiar, not hostile.
People who make bad and wrong decisions deserve nothing positive. They deserve to learn why they are bad and wrong.
No. They're dumb. It's scientifically proven at this point. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289609000051
…. Which is why we call them dumb.
There is such a thing as self controlled ignorance (or whatever its called), conservitives use it all the time. Someone reminded me what thin excuses manifesting as jokes look like and why they are used.
Pretty sure that site is satire, iirc with some right leaning bias but my memory is vague.
So it's political ads, but at least fake politics :P
"Satire". That site is as subtle with its propaganda as Trump is. This is just pushing the stole election bs, paid for to be on the front page no matter what.
Correct, it's supposed to be The Onion but conservative.
It's hard to tell sometimes because conservatives suck at comedy.
Indeed, the Babylon Bee is very cringe
Conservative humor: trip a child and laugh when it is injured.
if you think Babylon Bee is satire I recommend you watch this https://www.youtube.com/shorts/U2Srxl7bw6c
and then tell me how it is anything but thinly veiled right-wing propaganda
edit: or this https://youtube.com/shorts/fo4ly63TJNw?si=zQg5iTQC5MYp4pYT
I could be convinced that the first one is satire about what conservatives think the country is turning into, some real Tony Zaret shit
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BabylonBee is a satire site
it's like The Onion except strong right wing christian extremist bias
Eww
And no satire
idk I'd say the OP headline is technically satire, it just falls flat because the thing being satirized (Biden rigging the election) is not true and blatant misinformation.
Well, sure they have reasonable doubt, but then you watch something like this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/U2Srxl7bw6c
and well, you know, hard to deny what they are doing...
To be clear I don't think satire, political propaganda, and bigotry are mutually exclusive things. I'm not saying I think babylon bee is satire as a way of defending it, just that it mostly meets the definition.
the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Don't think it fits if it's "exposing" something that's intentionally misleading
I don't think the use of the word "expose" in that sentence is meant to assert that the core of satire is that it must be right. Satire is a type of media/expression, it would make little sense to have a taxonomy of media where what genre something is depends on the personal political affiliations and beliefs of the observer, where saying what genre something is in is a declaration of those beliefs.
Why object to calling it satire? It's obviously closely copying the format of other media primarily known by that label, I don't think there's any other term that works as well to describe what sort of thing it is.
The Ye 2020 tattoo got a big laugh out of me tbh
BabylonBee is right wing propaganda that uses "satire" as a shield to deflect criticism
I’m aware.
Of course he gave a sizeable lead with them, his base never threatened to kill them.
It's the Babylon Bee. Not spam, not an ad. Maybe shit, but still
I would put something that’s only “funny” because we all agree Biden stole the election amirite, in a different category. It’s like racist jokes; I don’t think the supposed funniness of it makes it suddenly harmless.
Oh, definitely agree with you on that one. I was only defending the right of a platform to suggest content to its users, regardless of what that content is
Reddit shows you communities that you are not subscribed to in your subscription feed.
The idea is to show you new communities you might be interested in.
The question is whether it is just doing it on the base of an algorithm or if you can pay to have communities recommended more often
Reddit shows you communities that you are not subscribed to in your subscription feed.
Yeah, like I said, not spam and not an ad. It's just an internal algorithmic recommendation
It was an ad though. I couldn’t do anything to get rid of it, it wasn’t simply a suggested community post in the app.
Is this appearing on feeds that don't include r/babylonbee? Shouldn't there be some sort of an ad indicator if so?
Yeah, it didn’t have the 3 dot menu to show less posts about this or whatever. It was like an ad that I couldn’t get rid of via any method in the app. It wasn’t simply a post on the sub. I don’t visit that sub, showed up in my curated feed.
okay, why repost it here then?
I get that, but this particular community is about Reddit. You're gonna see reddit-related content here.
I already get that on Lemmy for Biden. 🙄
So now you're giving them even more exposure by sharing them here?
Well that's what you get for using new. Switch back to old.
This was in the app. No choice anymore.
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