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A simple comparison between Babylon Bee and The Onion suggests to me that an overwhelming majority of comedy writers lean liberal. In any case, it would surely
by logfromblammo 7y ago
A simple comparison between Babylon Bee and The Onion suggests to me that an overwhelming majority of comedy writers lean liberal.
In any case, it would surely suffice to replace the red X or green check with a comedy mask icon captioned "Satire". Then they can explain the joke, and deconstruct the comedic theory behind it. This is very important, because for a lot of that Babylon Bee stuff, I have no clue why anyone would think it's funny.
":) Satire
"This was published by JokeyMcFakenews, a known purveyor of satirical articles. The text is templated from an inside-joke format known as a 'copypasta', but substituting Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for the male duck in the original, reproduced here for context: [quote block].
"The humor arises from callback to the already-familiar humor of the inside joke, combined with Mnuchin being an actual Bond villain instead of common waterfowl, and presumably having a far more sinister attitude towards bread crumbs."
- dkonofalski 7y ago>surely suffice to replace the red X or green check with a comedy mask icon captioned "Satire". Literally the only good comment on this entire thread related to BabylonBee. People fell for it and requests were made to debunk it. It doesn't have to be determined as true or false since it's not intended to be taken seriously.