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The first and only good babylonbee article

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[-] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 200 points 2 weeks ago

At first I was surprised this was coming from the Fascist friendly Bee, but then I read it and realized they're trying to sound sarcastic, but making the correct point perfectly. This is fucking meta.

[-] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 80 points 2 weeks ago

It’s like some kind of reverse Poe’s law, when the sarcasm of the outrageous minded is indistinguishable from a sane opinion.

Also Godwin’s law.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 weeks ago

This whole thing is cracking me up. I can imagine them writing all sorts of articles like "Democrats want ALL people to have access to basic needs like food, shelter, education, and health care." Then MAGAts reading that just laughing their heads off while the rest of us are just stuck wondering where the joke is.

[-] UprisingVoltage@feddit.it 11 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately, democrats don't really want that. What Bernie stated yesterday is correct, they have turned their backs to the working class

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[-] drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 35 points 2 weeks ago

This is mind blowing and I really hope it's just funny later. I really really do.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

We wanted it to "be funny later" during his first term.

It wasn't.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 16 points 2 weeks ago

He's making a list, he's checking it twice

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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

It's some real self-awarewolf shit.

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 21 points 2 weeks ago

Reality got so bad that satire can only state fact.

[-] Wilzax@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There was a political realignment after the civil war where the democrat and the republican parties switched roles as liberals and conservatives.

Now there's a factual realignment, where reality and satire switch which one is absurd and which one is correct when taken at face value

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[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 67 points 2 weeks ago

Actually that was a JD Vance quote. Harris kept it more classy.

Either way, he's more of a Mussolini type. Less vision, more opportunism.

[-] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago

Fascism through ✨ V I B E S ✨

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 48 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You joke, but vibes where and are an important part of how fascists took control. They understand that Aristotle was wrong, emotion and symbolism is simply a better form of rhetoric than logic.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Well, it depends what you mean by "better."

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Rhetoric is just Greek for the means of persuasion.

A more effective means of persuasion is better rhetoric by definition, because determining truth is not the goal, getting them to do what you want is.

But, yes, ideally rhetoric and epistemology would go hand in hand.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

I've finally met someone more pedantic than I.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 15 points 2 weeks ago

This is what it sounds like when doves cry.

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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

Let's hope he remains a Mussolini type to his dying day.

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Specifically on that one day. I hope he is bedridden until then

[-] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 47 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I hate Babylon Bee, but a broken clock & all that.

Either this situation isn’t as bad as they said it would be during the campaign (which is what Babylon Bee is implying) or it IS as bad as they said it is, and they’re letting it happen anyways.

Either way, they’re spineless fucking liars.

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[-] intro@programming.dev 44 points 2 weeks ago

That joke title is going to age like the Weimar Republic xD

[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 38 points 2 weeks ago

The Babylon Bee is unfunny right wing trash, but the Democrats walked right into this one. You can't tell us Trump is a threat to democracy and then peacefully transfer power to him.

[-] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

Refusing to peacefully transfer power would be the end of democracy.

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

I think we might be past that already

[-] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago

Tell me, what happened the last time Trump was told to peacefully transfer power?

If you believe trump intends to end democracy, then democracy is already over regardless of if you peacefully transfer power or not.

The truth is liberals have always been the path to fascism. After the death of the US no liberal nor fascist should ever be allowed near power again.

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[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago

From the article:

"It's my responsibility to make sure this tyrannical despot assumes power," Harris told the crowd of supporters after officially conceding the race. "Though he will end freedom itself in this country, imprison anyone who disagrees with him, systematically murder all women, and go door to door kicking everyone's dogs, I promise to make sure there is a peaceful transition of power."

The media hailed Harris's brilliance and the leadership she displayed while conceding to a man who is literally Hitler.

[-] Skydancer@pawb.social 26 points 2 weeks ago

I wish this was the right community to post this. Unfortunately, it more properly belongs in nottheonion

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 weeks ago

Libs before the election: Trump is a fascist! He must be stopped! He'll destroy our democracy!

Libs after the election: Congrats to Trump! We'll be meeting soon to discuss the peaceful exchange of powers and our broadly overlapping interests.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 weeks ago

So... they are criticizing her for not trying to overthrow democracy? Like trying to pull a coup would have been the only rational, non-hypocritical response here? What a worrying attitude

[-] RubicTopaz@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

Like trying to pull a coup would have been the only rational, non-hypocritical response here

Yes. What kind of party hands over power to people they know is fascist?

A liberal one, yes. Which is the problem, and why liberalism eventually gives way to fascism when a capitalist state is in decline.

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[-] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 weeks ago

Why is that a worrying attitude?

They’re criticizing her for saying “he’s facist hitler” through the campaign as the sole message, and then when they lose, shrugging and treating it like any other loss. “Oh well, better luck next time!”

Babylon Bee’s point is that the rhetoric doesn’t match the actions. If he was Hitler, then why are you handing him the reigns like this is just any other election? Their implication is that the campaign dramatized his impact and demonized him. They’re right about the criticism but wrong about the reason.

He DOES represent the evils they’ve been espousing, and they are laying down and doing fuck all about it except paving him a clear path. Babylon Bee has managed to accidentally write their most non-partisan headline ever by accident, and a scathing indictment of spineless liberalism.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

Why is that a worrying attitude?

Because it seems to be pointed in the direction of a civil war and an end to the US republic

He DOES represent the evils they’ve been espousing, and they are laying down and doing fuck all about it except paving him a clear path.

What do you think should be done instead?

[-] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago

Be as petty as he was and do everything in their power to sabotage what they can and leave him a mess?

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Isn’t it funny that a mere 4 years later, democrats forgot how to cheat and steal an election? /s

God I want to punch everyone who voted for this moron. I really do.

[-] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Only if you don't believe Donald Trump's own words.

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[-] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago

If you were alive in 1930s Europe, would you have said the same thing about Hitler and Mussolini?

Time really is a fucking circle.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

I often wondered how I would have felt if I was alive in the 1920s to 1940s and seen the rise of this shit. I now am confident that I would never have been a fascist, because I sure as hell fucking hate these people right now.

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[-] Clent@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Biden is the one responsible for transferring power. Even right wing satire is full of ignorance. Not that there was ever any doubt.

[-] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 weeks ago

It was her concession speech though.

[-] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

She literally said this though.

"I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory. I also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition and that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power."

Source

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[-] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago

First and only and it looks like Babylon staff didn't even come up with the idea - at the bottom it suggests this was a reader submission.

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago

It's called leading through example, because the MAGA cult is so good at following the examples given to them.

[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago

A millennia old Arabic saying goes something like: "If you honor the generous, you will own him... but if you honor the ignoble, he will rebel." We all know leading through example is wasted on people like Trump.

[-] style99@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago

Good old right wing "humor" (punching down on everyone else because they consider everyone else beneath them). We're all going to be seeing a lot of this type of "humor" (lynchings, book burning, singing about how wonderful being dictated to is) in the next 10 years or so.

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