This is satire, friends.

can not tell anymore..😪😪

Ms. Piper: Unfortunately, many people (not mentioning any names) cannot recognize satire, snark, irony, or other methods of expression.

It’s generally easier with sound and/or video:)

Many people don’t realize those are Spanish names for cities. I lived in San Diego and trying to pronounce the street name “Via De La Valle” was a tongue twister for this white girl who failed Spanish in high school. 😂😂😂

We have murdered #satire and we sit on its corpse like a throne 👑 www.facebook.com/groups/24069...

It lands so hard when you say the city names with the appropriate accent.

Oh, thank the ever loving universe!

They need to use the laughing emoji.

Add: California, San Bruno, San Juan Capistrano, San Clemente, Costa Mesa, Santa Ana, El Cajon, La Mesa, La Jolla, Coronado, San Ysidro, La Costa, El Capitan, El Monte, El Segundo (and the list can go on & on)

You know Stephen Miller is drafting an executive order to rename Los Angeles "Bradleyville."

Maybe we could get a Poe's Law symbol--an iron raven?

We'd use a bunch of crows, but of course, that's murder.

Yup, needs to be said, even if satire is being killed.

I wish we didn’t need to wonder.

💯🎯 And epically good satire, mockery, fact checking

Like adding sátira to the wounds

Right next door to La Mirada is 𝑳𝒐𝒔 Cerritos. I grew up in both cities. La Mirada was the first fully planned community, founded in the 1950s. Unfortunately, the plan ran out of ideas in the western sector, so we were left hanging without a county. We pretended to be part of Norwalk. 😆😎

Tambien, tonto.

37% of the country won’t get it.

Sigh. Maybe someday (like in the promised Star Trek future) we won’t need a satire disclaimer on Bluesky.

Same here in Colorado. Pueblo, Trinidad, Alamosa, Cortez. /s

Thank God 😊

Thanks I got my scruff up for a sec

Just for a sec?

Weird is all the Spanish city names! 😉

This is great. It honestly fooled me for a second.

You can tell it’s very good satire because it’s funny either way to people with more than half a brain.

Yup. Why has it become so hard to recognize when someone is being sarcastic? The stupidity and extremism are so far off the charts that it is much harder to tell who is being sarcastic and who is serious.

Maybe because sarcasm usually implies the opposite of the actual words being employed and sometimes additional context is needed to recognize it, like facial expression or tone of voice. If all you have to go on is text, it’s easy to miss. I hoped the screenshot was sarcasm, but wasn’t 💯 sure 😅

And then there is the fact that the world is full of people with zero self awareness who make genuine statements full of unintended irony all the time. Sometimes it’s hard to tell without stalking their profile if they’re just a jerk or if they’re subtly pointing out someone else’s jerkiness 🤷‍♀️

Well said.

she might have said something like ‘it is so surprising’ instead of ‘it sickens me’ . . . even so . . . and don’t forget our Santa Rosa ! — b.rad ps . . . y muchas mas !

ps I learned my first Spanish words in 4th grade at Marion Elementary School in Overland MO, before it was MO . . . Mrs Hill was my teacher . . . We read ‘El Pollo Loco,’ aka Chicken Little . . . at least that is the title I remember . . . ‘como se llama?’ ‘uno dos tres (etc)’ - me llamo b.rad

Because, you know, all of the place names selected are Spanish...

Lol! When we start to see the content of satire as expected responses from some groups of people, then we realize the world is becoming a cartoon.

What about Solvang?

No comprende. Sorry 😬

I was just going to post this. 😂

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I'd be willing to poke her ears out

Not to mention *anywhere* in....New Mexico.

I know. Da?

Um, California used to be Mexico, so people are speaking the historical primary language of the area. A primary language is the language you learned as a child when you didn't know you were learning a language, thus it may be an easier language to speak.

Dumb is the new black for MAGA Barbie

She is being sarcastic, pointing out the MAGA hypocrisy

But not Oakland, Richmond, or Beverly Hills?

Lol, I grew up in the east San Francisco bay on a street named Escondido circle, with cross streets of Avenida de las Palmas and El Caminito.

This is too good

I’ll add some more places - San Miguel, Los Padres National Forest, Havana, Sacramento, California, Colorado….Florida

Montana, Arizona, New Mexico

I feel like we’re going to break out in the states song

Los Gatos, my sister lived there, while I at one time lived in San Clemente. 🙋🏻‍♀️ Born and raised in Cali

Hey same! Near SLO actually 🤣

Texas

Yes! Wild right?

box o rocks

Now do Arizona and Texas. Also weird.

I'd rather be a Californian than a Dixie and a MAGA Christofascist! Viva California libre!🫡🐻

Natalie always brings the sass. Love it.

Her views sickening me!

She is being sarcastic. She is calling out MAGA for being mad about it, while there are so many cities with Spanish names.

Especially when I'm drinking margaritas and eating tacos

Sadly El Cerrito is no more, flattened for a USPS sorting facility. The town is still there, my mom still lives there, but the little hill, not so much.

😂

I used to manage a call center in San Diego and I got regular complaints from a woman about the Spanish menu prompts who lived on a street called Paseo Ranchero in Chula Vista...

Definitely weird! It's a beautiful language, even if I don't understand it.

Reading the comments…Who says Americans don’t get irony 🙄😂

Who?

www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

😂😂😂😂😂

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I lived in El Centro for four years, I totally get it!

Irony is definitely dead.

She is being sarcastic on purpose.

Why would a place that used to be Mexico have so many Spanish named cities? It doesn't make any sense. POR QUÉ!?!?!?

I love that I can teach myself a language that I have hopes of hearing in real life because I’ve never been able to afford to travel outside the country. Each time I hear someone speaking Spanish in a store I love to see how much I can comprehend. It’s a measure of how far I’ve come in my studies.

Next thing you know, you’ll hear it spoken in the District of Columbia!

Or Costa Mesa 🧐

How dare they not speak Colombian there!

Probably too complicated. Makes her brain hurt

It's satire.

Oh, totally! Imagine Espanol being spoken by Hispanic people! How odd! 😏

Weird among other things. Hello??? What planet is she from?

Satire

I was making fun of her. nd I get it. Amazing these folks function as adults

I think Jess meant the original post was satire/sarcasm/irony…

Oh, ok

She is making fun of MAGA and calling out their hypocrisy. They hate Spanish but live in cities with Spanish names

We are in Los Gatos here in CA and everyone says it like a gringo I refuse to though

Our counterpart down here is San Pedro. They pronounce it San PEEdro. 🤮

It drives me insane 😂

The way caller ID pronounces La Jolla is cringe.

I can imagine I bet the ll in it has them really butcher it 😂

Great point! Side anecdote: the office where I go for pain management has a virtually all Hispanic front office staff. Yet, when you call, you hear a recording regarding press one for English and two for Spanish – – and the invitation in Spanish is really English with Spanish words. Atrocious.

It’s sad they are whitewashing our ppl too bc I hear them saying things in gringo to fit in. I don’t blame them but it just shows how intolerant our society is of various cultures. I find other languages soothing and melodic even if I don’t understand so I don’t get it

Yep! It saddens me when hispanohablantes say “San Peedro” to fit in.

🤣

It’s not weird….RACIST!!!

It's satire.

When she visited France I bet it sickened her to hear French spoken there too right. Or Japanese in Japan. I really don’t need to point out the obvious stupidity and racism of her post right?

But the not so obvious sarcasm on the other hand…

Can she speak her bullshit words in an indigenous language?

She is being sarcastic and it's aimed at people being mad about Spanish hearing spoken in cities with Spanish names.

They were there first.

You left out Madrid, Mexico City and Tijuana.

Love your satire! Nazi miller will try to rename all those cities to Confederate names.

Don't forget San Pedro

I laughed.

I don’t speak Spanish that well but it kinda makes me want to lean in a little

lol.

😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈

#dumb

😂😂😂😂

Waving the flag of Mexico in LA? Scandalous 🤦🏻‍♀️

It’s like they haven’t lived on, spoken in their our tongue on that land for eons. Clearly a “History Class” flunky.

Nat, not you!

Parody?

Why is she speaking Spanish?

Because she is being sarcastic and pointing out the hypocrisy of maga

OMG it was sarcasm

It took me a moment. Brilliant.

Miserable old battle Axe 🪓

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Satire is really hard to recognize in print since context is usually missing. However, if you read the comments, you'll understand. Notice every city named is in fact a Spanish name, since, ya know, California was Mexico before white privileged assholes came along. Anyway......

Is this a joke? Speaking Spanish in what was formerly Mexico and every one of these city names are in SPANISH!!!

For some reason hearing Russian or Chinese spoken does not freak her out. Just Spanish. Weird indeed!

I think this country has been divided on immigration for years. I remember people bitching abt my grandparents speaking Sicilian or Italian. I actually do not recall any complaints about my other grandmother speaking Alsatian.

There have always been battles between the ethnicities in this country.

Maybe she just needs an Aqua fresca

Que?

Those are the same people that will say democrats talk to them like they are stupid. Sigh.

She is being sarcastic, pointing out MAGA hypocrisy

Yes, and completely ignored by our hateful Trump voters. Next they'll rename all those cities.

Move to Iceland. Wait, is that why Trump want to it? Because it’s ICE-land?

HAHAHAHAHAH!

The ignorance is profound.

It's sarcasm. She is calling out the hypocrisy of MAGA

Ironic response to satire.

El Monte, La Puente, San Pedro, San Gabriel, La Cienega, La Brea La Habra, El Segundo,

You could post this on x and get a thousand likes Maga does not get irony

Besides many probably don’t know the Spanish Empire made claims to the land along the west coast back late in the 1400s. They spoke Spanish there when the area was colonized later in the 18th Century. It’s no wonder the cities have Spanish names.

As an older white person, I am learning Spanish and have been for about 3 years. Every school should have a second language requirement. But then English and spelling are a requirement and a lot of people can't speak or spell, so there's that... education is key to so many things.

These maggot idiots would hate Thomas Jefferson because he spoke seven languages.

Irony is dead

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What about Chinese, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, Ukranian etc???? This would be my neighborhood...and alittle Spanish! Love the DIVERSITY FOR MY GRANDDAUGHTERS.

Santa Rosa, San Rafael, San Anselmo, and the list goes on.

Bien hecho

The stupid runs so deep with these fascists. 🤣 #Éstupido

I was concerned at first and then I laughed

Shoot, with all the Spanish spoken right here in Missouri I really, really regret not paying attention in Spanish Language class... It would make life easier as a salesperson.

That's awesome!! I love it. Well done.

Es una imbécil!

Ha! And Sacramento, Encinitas, El Vallejo, Escondido, La Mesa, El Centro, Coachella, San Juan Capistrano, Ramona, Chula Vista. It's all of us, everywhere.

This is either supreme sonic dissonance or satire extraordinaire....

Lol

OK, I'm starting to wonder how many accounts here are actually AI. Or maybe covid did a real number on more brains than we'd have guessed?

She must be making a joke.

She is. She is calling out people who are mad about it, when they don't think twice about living in a city with a Spanish name

My elbow has a difficulty bending into satire just now. It feels like a stretch.

Clueless about history. Who is gonna tell her?

It's satire

🤦🏼 spoke there long before English

Stephen Miller in a nutshell

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Last time I was in the Detroit/Ann Arbor area - Arabic. Cuban dialect Spanish in Miami. Ethiopian in Silver Spring MD. Gaelic/Irish in South Boston. Italian in Little Italy NYC. Languages are OUR culture as Americans. Love them all.

I could be wrong, but me thinks that those are ALL Spanish names. Weird, right?

That's the point. She's being sarcastic. She is making fun off MAGA>

Who is Natalie?

Contra points in a bluesky account

what bothers me about hearing Spanish in the streets, is that i don't understand enough to eavesdrop on their conversation! how am I supposed to mind everyone else's business if I only get every 4th word?

Natalie sickens me. It sickens me I didn’t learn Spanish! I made to Spanish three and quit!

SARCASM

For that matter, a majority of US States still have indigenous names, including Missouri ("Wimihsoorita", "people with large canoes" in Illinois, another indigenous tribe with a state named after them)

Crazy!

Image such a person. It sickens her.

You would almost think these places were once a part of Mexico.

Why, are they speaking Mexican?

I love that movie😆 "Born In East LA"

No, she’s a dumbass!🤗

She is being sarcastic. She is calling out people being mad about hearing Spanish in cities that have Spanish names.

They’re so gross.

🤣

Hahahahahaha!

Cosas estúpidos así me hacen hablar aunque más en español.

sarcasm I assume

I get it. These places all have Spanish names. Therefore, bound to be Spanish spoken.

😂

It was Spain. Years ago.

For the greater part of two decades, I lived below Sunset Boulevard, between La Brea and Fairfax. The area is called West Hollywood. I heard Russian—two blocks south, signs also had Cyrillic letters—French, Portuguese, and other languages as people would walk by. It was awesome!

Irony is lost on these idiots!

There are so many languages spoken in this country. I think there’s room for Spanish too.

There is. She is being sarcastic and calling out MAGA

I wonder if she knows any history of California?

She's being sarcastic. She is naming places with Spanish names to show how absurd it is that people are angry about hearing Spanish when so many places have Spanish names.

thanks

No problem at all. I went 😠 as well at first

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It sickens me to read those words🥺💔

Whew these mentions 😮‍💨

Sounds like she's just sickened.

All those Spanish words she typed.

It would be nice to hear English in the White House instead of whatever it is Marblemouth Pissypants speaks

Sorry, no remedial English class can fix a broken brain.

🎵 How can you mend A broken brain How can you stop this man From falling down [ apologies to The Bee Gees]

Holy shit 🎶 I totally meowed that Bee Gees style 🎶 🎶 How can you stop A con from conning 🎶

My work here is done.... 😎

😁😁

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No, no - keep going!

🎵 I can think of golfing days When scamming for my life Was everything this man knew how to do I would beg grift and borrow And all I grinned about Were others’ sorrows 😎

You've got to find some of those people on YouTube/TikTok who perform parody songs and collaborate.

😆 It could be a nice distraction, I suppose....

We need nice distractions these days

This is true.

Caveman? When your vocabulary is 3rd grade, you shouldn't be angry with Harvard.

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Puke you little brain into your vile mouth !

I can’t imagine why anyone would speak Spanish in cities with Spanish name. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ The nerve!

It's satire. That's the point. She is calling out people who are mad about it.

And my comment was sarcasm.

Everyone should learn Spanish and just start using it.

😂 the towns literally ARE Spanish.. what a twit 🙄😂

Was there a gene mutation in the white world in the south due to Jim Crow era inbreeding of whites that has resulted in insanity? Yes most definitely 💯

This is sarcasm.

Kinda I’ve lived in a the south

Clueless

Sarcasm

To put it mildly.

Why does everyone always forget Marina del Rey?

It's as if assimilation can only go so far.

🤣🤣🤣

Why? Many people are bilingual.

Geez. Don’t go to any National Parks, because you’re going to be really disturbed by all the different languages being spoken!

Woosh.

She is being sarcastic. She is making fun of MAGA

I know.

Toilet rat miller and Secbro kegseth will want to change the names of these villages now.

Hilarious!!!! 😂😂

Jesus H Christ! 🤬

Yeah, how dare they!?!!??!!

Sooo weird 🤔

Sad, people cannot even recognize satire anymore. Understandable though, these days.

And don't start me on hearing English on the streets of Ghent NY, Ghent OH, Amsterdam PA...

Muy gracioso.

Wait, her post isn’t sarcastic??

It is. I just checked. She's a left-wing youtuber who likes to annoy MAGA.

Oh good. I was like how can someone be so dumb? But these are the times we live in 😂

I understand🙂

Don't forget Vallejo and Santa Rosa

😂🤣😂

Seriously? Lmao. Eesh

No, sarcasm.

When have I ever?

😂

Puta

Idk whether to laugh or cry with that post 😳 However moving past the stupidity of naming all the California cities with Spanish names, every immigrant has spoken their own language when they first came to America. Assimilation happens over time not overnight.

Let's asK TACO what he thinks!

So don't go there. You're not welcome with that mindset anyhow.

She is being sarcastic. She is pointing out how hypocritical MAGA are.

Whenever I hear people in the U.S.A. complaining about people speaking Spanish here, all I can hear in my head is a whiny child voice going "mY ColOniZer iS BeTtER tHaN YOUR cOlonIzER!"

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

😂

She's here on Bluesky 🫶🏼 @contrapoints.bsky.social

She would not have survived in the coal camps of southern WV. Folks from all over spoke their native languages.

It’s satire. She lists cities with Spanish names. It’s very dry but it is funny.

Thanks! Sometimes, I just don't get the joke.

No recriminations at all. It was super subtle .

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or the town I grew up in San Mateo.

Stupid is another description….

For missing the satire?

How would we know? There are people who think like this and are now saying such shit out loud.

She is naming all those places on purpose. She does it to call out MAGA being hypocritical about it

I think a 🙄 or something else might have helped people understand. Is there an emoji that’s specifically meant to covet sarcasm? If not maybe we need one when reality is so fucking crazy it’s hard to know.

First thing I do when in doubt is read the person's timeline. That alone made this obvious sarcasm.

I do that too, but it would be nice if we could skip that step. Only so much time in every day and it’s already time consuming enough just trying to sort out the complete fake shit from reality. Between AI and the zero integrity administration, it’s not easy to determine what is true and what is not

Sierra Nevada, San Antonio, Santa Fe, San Gabriel, etc.

Why? Where are you from?

All Spanish names.

Hate sounds like.

🤣🏆

Huh?

You can always fuck off....

Back in the day, California was owned by Mexico read some history books.

It's even worse if you go to Puerto Rico, yet some residents want to be a state. Who do they think they are? Hawaii?

They are the fools of puerto rico. The smart ones vote PIP

I was about to ask how she felt about Florida and Texas 🙄

Does this person know that California, our whole southwest, as well as parts of the northwest, all the way up to Oregon once belonged to Spain? That we got the whole southwest, including California from Mexico, when we invaded it in 1848 when the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed?

She does. She is being sarcastic and pointing out the hypocrisy of MAGA.

😂🤣

It took me a moment😔 But, I got it🙃

I'm telling you folks, we need a sarcasm emoji!! This is not enough 🙄🙄🙄

Amusing

So weird

Perfect

Que barbaridad!

Mar-A-Lago.