Showing posts with label parody. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parody. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

More of Poe's Law.

The fun thing about gun loons is that they are super examples of Poe's Law (without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is difficult or impossible to tell the difference between an expression of sincere extremism and a parody of extremism.)

And when you think they couldn't come up with something more bizarre, they top themselves.


Unsupervised teens and guns--what could go wrong???

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Poe's Law in action

Poe's Law concerns internet debates, particularly regarding religion or politics.

"Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

In other words, No matter how bizzare, outrageous, or just plain idiotic a parody of a Fundamentalist may seem, there will always be someone who cannot tell that it is a parody, having seen similar REAL ideas from real religious/political Fundamentalists.


Keep up the good work! This is better than anything Ladd Everett can come up with!

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

The NRA's self-satire.

I'm seriously wondering whether the NRA really takes itself seriously, finally coming up with some seriously laughable pieces of self-satire which the Daily Beast calls Despicable.

Not really, despicable if you can read between the lines to see self-parody gone wild.  These are the funniest thing the NRA has come up with to date.

They talk about Media Dishonesty, yet they support a media which uses discredited pundit John Lott regurgitating the material which has been disproven.  I'm sure they see Fox News as "honest media" given how they dislike "Public" Media, which is only slightly less honest in that it is actually commercial media.

Anyway, here is Charlie Brooker's Daily Mail Island for what watching too much right wing media can do to your mind.