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MineralMan

(146,284 posts) Wed Dec 7, 2016, 05:27 PM Dec 2016

Last Year, I Started a Satire Website

I did that so I could link to it when I posted a piece of satirical writing. Some DUers knew it was my website. Others did not. Sometimes, the articles there were popular, and sometimes they were not. Satire's like that.

On November 9, I deleted everything on that site, but left the page up. If you want to see what newsyoushouldntbelieve.com looks like now, you can click this link:

http://www.newsyoushouldntbelieve.com

The site will not return to life, but it will remain as it is until the URL registration expires.

Satire is dead. Reality has begun to satirize itself.

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Last Year, I Started a Satire Website (Original Post) MineralMan Dec 2016 OP

You are too nice... LeftInTX Dec 2016 #1

Actually, satire is now impossible Warpy Dec 2016 #2

That is apparently true. MineralMan Dec 2016 #3

Why not make it a fake news site? leftofcool Dec 2016 #5

Trump Orders Sun to Come up Yesterday, Trump takes Credit Sun came up in AM, Its a Miracle! mitty14u2 Dec 2016 #4

I wish I had known about that site NastyRiffraff Dec 2016 #6

Poe's Law KamaAina Dec 2016 #7

LeftInTX

(25,223 posts)

1. You are too nice...

Reply to MineralMan (Original post)

Wed Dec 7, 2016, 05:41 PM

Dec 2016

We would probably win elections again if we crowd funded a tabloid full of fake news.

Warpy

(111,237 posts)

2. Actually, satire is now impossible

Reply to MineralMan (Original post)

Wed Dec 7, 2016, 05:41 PM

Dec 2016

and not because the thin skinned Trumpers will make it dangerous. It's impossible because they take it as a challenge and will invariably exceed it the next day, no matter how over the top you tried to make it.

MineralMan

(146,284 posts)

3. That is apparently true.

Reply to Warpy (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 7, 2016, 05:45 PM

Dec 2016

We have a legion of people in this country who accept whatever appears on the Internet at face value. Even a few people here on DU reacted to obvious satires on that website as if they were factual reporting. That, despite very obvious cues in each article that indicated its satirical nature.

Satire is no longer useful, since reality is often far more bizarre than any satire could be.

Donald J. Trump will be the satirical President. If it were not true, nobody on this planet would ever believe he could have been elected by thinking people. Our nation will become a satire of itself with Trump at the helm.

More is the freaking pity!