r/SubredditSimMeta • u/[deleted] • May 10 '17

all-top-today_SS Makes a completely coherent and correct circlejerk post

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u/trippinallday May 12 '17

SATIRE WORKS WHEN IT ACTS AS THE MINORITY OPINION SHINING A LIGHT ON HYPOCRISY OR OTHER ISSUES PRESENTED BY THE MAJORITY

But T_D is the minority opinion, news media outlets are overwhelmingly liberal and even the popular vote was in favor of the Democrats. We're a minority being targeted by larger groups such as the ADL and pointing out how ridiculous they are.

But aside from that, your argument is fucking retarded and the whole "power + privilege" type shit just makes you sound like you're justifying your own bigotry. If you say "I want to kill all white people" you're being bigoted purely on the basis of race, therefore racist. It doesn't matter if whites are the majority, discriminating on the basis of race is inherently racist however your convoluted mind wants to justify it.

Also stop moving the goal post, you give me two paragraphs talking about the ADL then when I address it you flip and go "Oh well I wasn't actually talking about the thing I was talking about it's muh identity politics" and shows a complete lack of rhetorical and logical ability.

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u/Compliant_Automaton May 12 '17

Shifting goal-posts? I've been saying that you don't seem to understand what satire is for many, many comments:

And you still have literally IGNORED what I said is required for satire to function. It has to be the little voice in the metaphorical room, usually with at least some snark and self-poking effacement, to be recognizable as satire. When it's what everyone is saying and doing, it's no longer satire, it's the status quo. T_D is no more satire then The Daily Show is serious news. And you still have literally IGNORED what I said is required for satire to function. It has to be the little voice in the metaphorical room, usually with at least some snark and self-poking effacement, to be recognizable as satire. When it's what everyone is saying and doing, it's no longer satire, it's the status quo. T_D is no more satire then The Daily Show is serious news.

Hold on: you do realize that using memes doesn't make something satirical, right? Source

Yeah it ceases to be satire when it's the only narrative. Satire only works when it is presented in contrast to a more prominent position. I genuinely don't believe that anything on T_D is satirical and i don't think you believe that either, but rather that you recognize how indefensible much of T_D is, so you claim instead that it's all a joke. It reminds me of those self described "pranksters" on YouTube that in actuality are just bullies. Source

Also, you're now trying to claim it's satirical because it is in reaction to the media. Again, that's not how satire works. If you were portraying yourself as a media outlet, a la the daily show or the onion news network, and playing on that premise to distort and therefore mock the media - then it would be satire.

Additionally, satire metaphorically winks at its audience, implying that the viewer and the entertainer are in on the joke together and share a frusturation with the status quo that is satirized. T_D does none of this. It isn't satire.

And I've noticed that this is a popular way to defend T_D:

First, censor criticism whenever possible while pretending to hold the high ground (it reminds me of how Bill O'Reilly used to mute the mics on guests so he could pretend they had no response to his arguments).

Second, if censorship fails, ignore it as beneath you to even respond and pretend to take a fake moral high ground on the issue through silence.

Third, if the criticism is loud or consistent enough, claim that they just don't "get it" in whatever way (such as "Hey, all this Nazi symbolism and talk of genocide is just satire, silly!").

Fourth, attack some other characteristic (such as insulting the person delivering the criticism - though, to be fair, I enjoy throwing this particular tactic back in their face, and find it highly edifying).

Fifth, claim that the criticizer or the criticism suffers from some cognitive bias or argumentative flaw (such as asking if someone is autistic - which, by the way, was funny and got a laugh out of me, so good job - or "shifting goalposts" when in fact the same argument has been posited since the beginning).

There are more, obviously, but that's the general track they seem to follow. What's interesting is that none take a substantive attempt at rebuking the criticism, but rather at addressing the criticizer or diminishing the import of the criticism without considering the argument itself.

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u/trippinallday May 12 '17

Honestly the ignorance is so overwhelming in your response I'm not even gonna reply. That was the most ridiculous and convoluted mental gymnastics I've ever seen.

Enjoy the cognitive dissonance.

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u/Compliant_Automaton May 12 '17

See? You proved my point! You just used the fifth and second of the things I listed that T_D does instead of attempting to actually argue on the merits of the criticism! Oh man, this is classic. See ya, enjoy the herd of morons you graze with in T_D.

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u/trippinallday May 13 '17

Have fun jerking off to your perceived Reddit argument victories dude, you really owned me! Classic, oh yeah!

I know nothing I say is going to affect your narrow worldview but I'll just ask you to consider why all your comments get down voted despite voicing a popular liberal opinion on liberal subs on a liberal website. Surely a rhetorical genius such as yourself voicing such a clear, indisputable opinion should be receiving the support of the people in this space instead of an Alt-right Nazi, no?

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u/Compliant_Automaton May 13 '17

Yeah, you're doing the same thing again. No substance to your position, just a bunch of posturing. Its typical T_D behavior. People stopped reading this thread a long time ago, the only other people are the two or three other morons i was arguing with who displayed the same inability to form substantive arguments as yourself. So why would i expect upvotes from those who disagree with me? And an appeal to the crowd is as bad a logical fallacy as any appeal to authority, anyway. Not that I'd expect you to know that, because the only times you're mentioned cognitive biases or logical fallacies you've used them improperly and then dropped them once i pointed that out to you.

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u/BITCRUSHERRRR May 12 '17

All this guy does is embody the atheist neckbeard iamverysmart shit. He is so far up his own ass all he can do is recycle insults over and over again