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by ghusto 29 days ago
When it's this poorly executed, yes it needs to be said.

I was going back and forth on whether it was for far longer than I should have been.

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> was going back and forth on whether it was for far longer than I should have been.

Please consider that the fault here might be in you, not the text.

> When it's this poorly executed, yes it needs to be said

Isn't that a mark of great satire? That the argument sort of works within the zeitgeist, thereby showing the zeitgeist to be corrupted.

Over-the-top satire is funny. But it's clumsy. The fact that some people who are being satirised will agree with the satire is what makes it great.

Yes, but it's a thin line, and I contend that this is over that line.

If you satarise Nazis and some Nazis can't tell that you're making fun of them, that's good satire. If you write a peice that reads like any other peice of Nazi literature, that's not understanding what satire is.