it's not a flex when someone says "read this thing i wrote again" and you say "i am already very familiar with the topic"

“Ha! That’s funny.” “No it’s not and here’s my college degree that proves it.” Super normal.

are you missing like a huge chunk of this conversation or something because this person has been repeatedly trying to define satire to me

Because everyone here gets it but you.

Gets what? It's ai shit, there's nothing to get

have you ever considered the image fucking sucks if you have to write a 3500 word essay explaining it

Just because *you* don't get the joke, doesn't mean the joke sucks. It just means you don't get it.

it's not even a joke

yet what subject does the post satirize

The joke is saying that people campaigning for Newsom three years out are obsessive freaks on the same level as Trump fanatics. That's not what it *intends* to say, but that is the plain text of it. I find it funny, in a very sad way

You're REALLY reading into it, but ok. Again, look at his other posts.

I know who he is. I know what he's trying to do. This image could be posted by a critic of Newsom and make the entirely opposite point. That means it sucks

Or they just don’t think it’s funny? Different people find different things funny. But the notion that one can “prove”, academically, that something is or is not funny is nonsense.

wipe your chin off, you missed a spot

Ha-ha! Now THAT’s funny. Good one!

you still havent said what its satirizing

what subject does the post satirize

Unfortunately, the target of the post is Newsom supporters—it suggests they're just as weird and obsessive as maga.

Are you familiar with the OP? Because his other posts suggest otherwise.

oh look who's back I thought your internet died

Was that supposed to be funny?

It's funnier than a truck covered in Newsom flags

I know what the OP was *trying* to say, exaggerating Newsom's trump style tweets. By attempting to extending it to Newsom/Trump supporters, he's gotten confused. The image now suggests Newsom supporters are as batshit as Maga. Sad!

Many of us are taking it as "see how stupid it would look if Dems did it? Because it looks just as stupid when MAGAts do it."

I am painfully aware of how it was intended and how some people are interpreting it. If it were posted by someone who was trying to point out how stupid "Newsom for President" sounds three years out, it would be much more effective. That means it sucks

I'm struggling to see how the image above criticizes or exposes the stupidity or vices of Trump supporters when the truck is decked out with signs of support for Newsom.

I could understand this as a trap, like the posts we've seen from Newsom's communications team, for Trump supporters to criticize this when it's mirroring crazy Trump supporters adorning their trucks. But this doesn't seem like the right platform for such bait.

I believe you.

HE STUDIED SATIRE IN COLLEGE, SIR!

Yeah, Liberty University.

i don't think you know who youre talking about

OK. I've taught satire in college for a decade. The above isn't effective satire because it conflates parody (a satirical tool) for its own end result. This is a common misconception of what satire looks like or accomplishes. You happy now?

Ding ding ding!

Got it. It’s only satire if it comes from the Satìrie region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling jokes.

Words mean things, sick burn

you have brain damage Chris and should log off and be with your kids.

The kids are laughing at this picture.

I’m actually at work rn but if I did show this to my kids I’m certain they’d be like “Ha! Yeah, it’s like those stupid Trump trucks” and move on with their lives, as normals do.

AI sucks but this joke is funny. Props.

You are really proud of your ignorance. By trying to make fun of Trump supporters, you are acting exactly like them.

I didn’t make the picture. I simply looked at it and thought, “Ha. That’s funny.” And, yes, you are correct: By chuckling internally at an AI image I am “acting exactly like” people who are enabling a facist takeover of our country. Those are definitely the same thing.

Whomever you're replying to has blocked me 🤣

The ignorance is not realizing a lot of people study satire in schools. Most journalism students have to learn about it while in school. It's pretty important that journalists are able to know what it is. Posting like some high school freshman is just a bonus way of acting like a Maga chud.

I would agree that this is not really satire...but I do think it is a good way of antagonizing the administration. Something like "hey...we have the same sort of support you do...you're not unique." Or with the Ivanka one "your favorite person likes me more." It seems to be effective needling.

I’m seeing some people say this is funny. I’m seeing other people say it’s not. I have only seen one person use their minor in Satirical Studies to try to “prove” that it is not funny.

you are hallucinating things I never said, this is solely about a person trying to define satire to me and me saying i already know its definition. jesus christ what is wrong with people today

I, like everyone else here, is simply telling you how impressed we are that you completed an Advanced Certificate Program in The Historical Roots Of Satire In The Modern Age.

no, you kramered in here trying to land a burn but it turns out you have reading comprehension issues and now you're gonna try to post your way thru it

I actually studied reading in college, so… pretty sure I know what I’m talking about.

Lmfao

lmfao

A lot of journalism schools teach about satire. That's not insult you think it is.