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Right now, somewhere in Washington, DC, there are a bunch of rich men with white hair, white skin, and black hearts screaming and stomping around in their suits
by downandout 13y ago
Right now, somewhere in Washington, DC, there are a bunch of rich men with white hair, white skin, and black hearts screaming and stomping around in their suits because they don't want poor people to have affordable healthcare.
I stopped reading after that sentence. This article may have a linkbait headline, but its only intention is to get its Republican hating, ultra-liberal agenda across to anyone unlucky enough to see its somewhat intriguing title and click on it. Too much of this stuff has found its way onto Hacker News recently.
- EpicEng 13y agoYou shouldn't have stopped. I can't blame you, I almost did the same, but if you continue to read it is obvious satire. I don't know about the site in general, but that stuff was intended to be comedic and go along with the silly questions that develop the story. The author is playing the role of a satirized liberal.
- sliverstorm 13y agoIn the absence of good tech news, HN usually starts to veer political. Politics is the HN "slow news Tuesday".
- diminoten 13y agoThis article isn't political, the part he is referencing is satire at best, or irrelevant at worst. Read the article.
- sliverstorm 13y agoI lump political satire in with politics.
- diminoten 13y agoI wouldn't, for the same reason I wouldn't lump Jon Stewart in with news reporters. One's just trying to make you laugh, the other has a point.
- sliverstorm 13y agoJon Stewart isn't a news reporter, but I'd still lump him in with "news". Satire has limited meaning when taken outside the scope of its source material.
- diminoten 13y agoThat's all well and good, but it doesn't change the fact that the saitre is meant to make you laugh, whereas political commentary is meant to express a view. One may do the other, but to lump them together is a grave mistake.
- sliverstorm 13y agoIt sounds like you are under the illusion that political satire has no agenda.
- diminoten 13y agoAgain, that's all well and good, but it still doesn't change the fact that the satire is meant to make you laugh, whereas political commentary is meant to express a view.
- sliverstorm 13y agosatire is meant to make you laugh ... and also to express a view. If you understand that, I don't understand how you can view satire as purely entertainment and completely a-political.
- glomph 13y agoThat part is quite obviously satire.