[iFire]

Is that politics in the sense of conservatism please keep the world as it was when I was a kid or politics in the sense of this should happen or it's a joke?

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I'm making a joke about how aggressive the flag mobs have gotten, of all political stripes

Yes it's a bad joke

[yodon]

>I'm making a joke about...

Probably a good time to read up again on Poe's Law[0], which does always pertain to attempted sarcasm in online forums.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

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I thought the winky tongue sticking out face would signify but alas

[johnnyanmac]

Sadly comes off as the kind of comment the people who mass flag anything with certain keywords would post, in a mocking sort of way.

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Of course the really sad thing is that it was indeed flagged by what I can only describe as a brigade of ostriches, the ostrich brigade. They stick their heads in the sand.