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.