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[-] Australis13@fedia.io 170 points 2 years ago

I didn't even register this as satire until I opened the article. The headline is just too believable.

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago

I was a full paragraph in.

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

I'm still not 100% sure it is satire.

[-] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago

I mean it's not wrong.

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

Not believable at all because I've seen it with my own eyes and know it to be true.

[-] mibo80@lemm.ee 95 points 2 years ago

Can always forgive a little witchcraft as long as the witch hates the gays, too. "One of the good ones."

[-] funktion@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

So long as they're hurting the right people

[-] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 years ago

She has grit, plain and simple, like a certain big fella I know. Hint: his initials are J.C

James Cameron?

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 years ago

I had one crazy aunt who went to HP book burnings back in the day. She wasn’t even anything that weird, just regular Catholic. Dunno what made her think she needed to do it because the rest of the family is also Catholic and they weren’t doing it.

[-] holmesandhoatzin@slrpnk.net 34 points 2 years ago

That's hilarious because my priest at the time encouraged people to read the books.

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 14 points 2 years ago

Catholics got some extra crazy somewhere around 2000-2008, I can't pinpoint when it happened, but the community changed somewhere around that time. Like there was normal conservative Catholic, and then suddenly I noticed that Evangelical type start to join up. I'm no longer practicing now and consider myself agnostic.

[-] Hotdogman@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

They were preparing for the rapture of 2012. Must have been quite akward the following Sunday at church when everbody showed up.

[-] bayank@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

I read an interesting take on 2012, which the Mayans or some ancient civilization also predicted. That the end of the world would be slow, and take years. It’s not going to be instant. I think it’s happening now, this cursed timeline that we’re all in.

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah that’s what I thought I also remembered about the time. I was just a kid though but it’s stuck with me for some reason lol

So fucking weird.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago
[-] MycoBro@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I read it as hp love craft and pictured her in the 40s burning books. Everyone was dressed like in the godfather.

[-] LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago

I know this is from "the hard times" But I don't know if it counts as satire when I literally know people like this -_-

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Yummy onion. ಠ_ಠ

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

“It’s witchcraft, but it’s anti-woke witchcraft, which we can get behind,”

Sounds like, someone's livin' in the past, man.

But this is how we get the witchcraft in... Finally! Prepare to call off the woke movement and we'll unveil the anti-wole curtain to reveal witchcraft to all the children! They'll be running around-checks notes... using magic or supernatural powers to inflict harm or misfortune on other!s And-... transgress social norms by engaging in cannibalism, incest and open nudity!

Muahahaha

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Can't we use magic for more beneficial and fun things?

[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Hmm... I guess so. As long as we keep the cannibalism, incest, and open nudity.

[-] MycoBro@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I don’t want to live in a world without cannibalism, incest, and open nudity.

[-] jose1324@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Lol this is supposed to be satire? I see this like evey day

[-] NewPerspective@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Why can't the title of the article just say the word we're all thinking: hypocrites

[-] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social -2 points 2 years ago

Well yeah, people change. Either that or consistency is dead.

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