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edit: for posterity, this was satire but i’m comfortable recognizing it wasn’t opaque enough hence the poor reception. we’ll get em next time.

for those still refusing to get it: voting is harm reduction, see my other recent posts.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I can hear these arguments non-ironically with only very small changes in the wording.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

satire is woven from the same thread that composes reality 😔

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can someone stop this reality? I'd like to get off and take the next one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. 

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

- Douglas Adams

Reason #42 for more funding to go towards theoretical physics.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thinking in black or white is for the far right.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

remarkably based

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thanks did you read it at all lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"it wasnt opaque enough hence the poor reception"

Instead of "oh I guess my teenage edgyism wasn't as brilliant as I thought"

Introspection — you should try it

Edit i thought people knew about this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

edit: for posterity, this was satire but i’m comfortable recognizing it wasn’t opaque enough hence the poor reception. we’ll get em next time.

Your genius will be understood in time o7

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

bwaha thanks lmao

i may try to construct something a little more for the masses and try again. no artist is successful the first time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i posted a meme on 196 the other day asking people to please go out and vote and promptly got 55 replies from people who unironically believed this. a solid 50% of them admitted to not reading the post i wrote.