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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Again, it’s an illustration of the hypocrisy. It doesn’t need to literally exist as a physical object in order to make the point.

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a fabrication of a hypocrisy. If the hypocrisy is real, you wouldn’t need to fabricate it.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sometimes fiction and altered objects depict abstract concept better than real physical objects do and neoliberals tend not to say the quiet parts loudly like the fascist party on the other side of the aisle has increasingly been doing in recent years.

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      • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Do you not recognize that this is deceitful? I understand how fiction can present allegories to demonstrate real world themes. But this isn’t that. This is meant to portray reality and real life hypocrisy but is not actually real.

        If the hypocrisy is true, why the deception?

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    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean the hypocrisy really exists, but you’re right that this particularly egregious and shocking example is likely a total fabrication.

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    • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s called satire.

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      • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nice try. It is deception. Satire isn’t intended to be deceptive. This post was.

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• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The French Revolution was well documented and people still enjoy A Tale of Two Cities

  Are you saying we don’t need any fiction - novels, tv, movies, jokes, comics, memes… because there exists non-fiction versions?

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  • Starbuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think you and the others trying to pass off the same idea don’t seem to understand the problem here. It’s not that you can’t have satire, or fiction that acts as a social commentary. It’s that all of the examples you are mentioning aren’t trying to pass themselves off as reality . Nobody reads A Tale of Two Cities and thinks that it is literal. Or A Modest Proposal. This here is trying to pass itself off as real and as soon as it gets called out for it, the choir shows up to say “Oh, so we can’t have satire anymore”.

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I genuinely don’t think anyone thinks these are trans-inclusive homeless spikes.

      At best they got painted bright colors for visibility and they accidentally used the trans flag

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        at arguably more best, someone decided to vandalize them as an act of political commentary.

        “It’s often said that the most potent form of rhetoric is the contradictory form” - i just made that up :)

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• melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You do to make it fun.

  But your statement suggests you don’t think its a thing.

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