I must admit although I do do a little bit of satire here and there, which is usually used as a gateway to acknowledge that someone else has followed something

I must admit although I do do a little bit of satire here and there, which is usually used as a gateway to acknowledge that someone else has followed something vaguely topical. I'm not really that big a fan of it. And when it comes to politics and world atrocities, we do 30mins of laughing, move along, but the problems remain. Sometimes I think it can even devalue a subject - or knock the wind out of anger and repellent sails. Or even just normalise something to widespread defeatist acceptance. In my most paranoid moments, I feel it's just another state outlet for news and general disinformation. I'd rather just have some grown up debate about the issues. Politics gets a lot of news/air time, but escapes critical thinking. Where are the good political pundits that do more than just regurgitate a press release? Regarding the article though: I think it's always best to add some inflection by way of an emoji, ellipsis, exclamation mark, or some other context to avoid misinterpretation. It may take some of the fun out of it, but hey.