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> And Jonathan Swift was actually advocating eating children. If you're going to engage in satire, its best the satire be obvious. I believe there are capital
by palmotea 1y ago
> And Jonathan Swift was actually advocating eating children.
If you're going to engage in satire, its best the satire be obvious.
I believe there are capitalist economist types who believe what Summers wrote unironically.
- rhcom2 1y agoAlso known as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
- mwcremer 1y agoSorry, did you mean "Summers unironically wrote" or "capitalist economist types unironically believe" ?
- quuxplusone 1y agoOr, for that matter, "I unironically believe"? ;) From context, GP's "I believe there are capitalist economist types who believe what Summers wrote unironically" obviously meant "I [perhaps ironically] believe there are capitalist economist types who unironically believe what Summers [perhaps ironically] wrote." The next rhetorical question is: what does it even mean to believe something ironically? Sounds like the sort of grammatical blivetry that would have gotten 17th-century critics up in arms. > Many times he [Shakespeare] fell into those things [which] could not escape laughter — as when he said in the person of Caesar [...] "Caesar did never wrong but with just cause."
- _yb2s 1y ago> there are capitalist economist types who believe what Summers wrote unironically And Summers himself is one of them- he spent most of his career making things analogous to that essay actually happen