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this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2024
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That's the frustrating thing about the current internet climate. In a time when less and less people are interested in researching the backstory of a tweet/policy/person, things like this are shared w/o context. Had to go down a rabbit hole to realize it's a fake satire writer.
I get where you're coming from and tend to agree. And yet in this case, he says the bottom 25% are in the bottom 25%. That's literally just how numbers work. That's the entire substance of the post. That seems a clear joke, imo.
But I guess I say that, and then there's Rep MTG who says far dumber shit, except completely seriously. I guess it's hard to tell the difference between joke stupid and real stupid these days.
it's frustrating that people react and spread misinformation without doing the bare minimum of research, but I don't think making obvious satire is frustrating. if anything hopefully people learn from it and stop taking screenshots of things as truths
True.
I think that as we move towards shorter and shorter clips/tweets, there's an assumed prior context that is often missing. For example, Borat or Stephen Colbert's character on The Daily Show are clear caricatures but when you have a 5-second clip out of context, it actually feeds into the narrative it is ridiculing.
The same goes for naming cosplaying an elected official.
I mean, the only information in that truthorfiction link that wasn't in the original tweet is that Jack Kimble is not a real representative.
Apart from that, there is no other context. The tweet is exactly as it appears to be, it's not a reference to anything else.
Either you understand that it's a joke or not.
Drag assumed it was a joke to begin with. The graph is too generic.