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stevenleser

(32,886 posts) Sat Nov 11, 2017, 10:59 PM Nov 2017

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Real or Parody?

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So my fun for tonight was replying to a Twitter account parodying Steve Bannon (thinking it was the real thing) and having a bunch of GOP’ers find that funny. And I was thinking to myself, we have a Republican US President who sides with the Russian President’s side of events on Russian meddling in our election over our intelligence agencies findings and a Republican party running a child molester for US Senate. The line between real and fake/parody has been pretty well blurred GOP trolls, and not by me and Democrats.

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Real or Parody? (Original Post) stevenleser Nov 2017 OP

Yeah, it's getting hard to get a grip on reality these days! n/t RKP5637 Nov 2017 #1

Did you see Trump's latest Tweet? It just keeps getting worse! stevenleser Nov 2017 #2

And he broadcasts his ramblings to the world as he declines ... n/t RKP5637 Nov 2017 #4

I lost my capacity to detect satire Danascot Nov 2017 #3

That is Poe's Law in a nutshell: you can't tell the true crazy from the parody of it. nt tblue37 Nov 2017 #5

RKP5637

(67,104 posts)

1. Yeah, it's getting hard to get a grip on reality these days! n/t

Reply to stevenleser (Original post)

Sat Nov 11, 2017, 11:01 PM

Nov 2017

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)

2. Did you see Trump's latest Tweet? It just keeps getting worse!

Reply to RKP5637 (Reply #1)

Sat Nov 11, 2017, 11:16 PM

Nov 2017

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RKP5637

(67,104 posts)

4. And he broadcasts his ramblings to the world as he declines ... n/t

Reply to stevenleser (Reply #2)

Sun Nov 12, 2017, 09:00 AM

Nov 2017

Danascot

(4,690 posts)

3. I lost my capacity to detect satire

Reply to stevenleser (Original post)

Sun Nov 12, 2017, 12:19 AM

Nov 2017

during the Bush administration. Now I feel like we're living in bizarro world.

tblue37

(65,334 posts)

5. That is Poe's Law in a nutshell: you can't tell the true crazy from the parody of it. nt

Reply to stevenleser (Original post)

Sun Nov 12, 2017, 09:24 AM

Nov 2017

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