That’s the frustrating thing about the current internet climate. In a time when less and less people are interested in researching the backstory of a tweet/policy/person, things like this are shared w/o context. Had to go down a rabbit hole to realize it’s a fake satire writer.
I get where you’re coming from and tend to agree. And yet in this case, he says the bottom 25% are in the bottom 25%. That’s literally just how numbers work. That’s the entire substance of the post. That seems a clear joke, imo.
But I guess I say that, and then there’s Rep MTG who says far dumber shit, except completely seriously. I guess it’s hard to tell the difference between joke stupid and real stupid these days.
I mean, the only information in that truthorfiction link that wasn’t in the original tweet is that Jack Kimble is not a real representative.
Apart from that, there is no other context. The tweet is exactly as it appears to be, it’s not a reference to anything else.
Either you understand that it’s a joke or not.
it’s frustrating that people react and spread misinformation without doing the bare minimum of research, but I don’t think making obvious satire is frustrating. if anything hopefully people learn from it and stop taking screenshots of things as truths
I think that as we move towards shorter and shorter clips/tweets, there’s an assumed prior context that is often missing. For example, Borat or Stephen Colbert’s character on The Daily Show are clear caricatures but when you have a 5-second clip out of context, it actually feeds into the narrative it is ridiculing.
The same goes for naming cosplaying an elected official.
I just meant upvote, but I half remembered some lemmy folks hating certain terms because they’re from reddit (like calling communities subs) , and I thought upvote was one of them. However, I couldn’t remember the lemmy equivalent, so I said uplemmyed. But taking time to do a quick search, upvote seems to be widely used, so I’m not sure what term I was thinking of…
Up lemmyed, funny, but for anyone else confused about the satire https://www.truthorfiction.com/rep-jack-kimble-a-whopping-25-of-american-students-are-in-the-bottom/
That’s the frustrating thing about the current internet climate. In a time when less and less people are interested in researching the backstory of a tweet/policy/person, things like this are shared w/o context. Had to go down a rabbit hole to realize it’s a fake satire writer.
I get where you’re coming from and tend to agree. And yet in this case, he says the bottom 25% are in the bottom 25%. That’s literally just how numbers work. That’s the entire substance of the post. That seems a clear joke, imo.
But I guess I say that, and then there’s Rep MTG who says far dumber shit, except completely seriously. I guess it’s hard to tell the difference between joke stupid and real stupid these days.
I mean, the only information in that truthorfiction link that wasn’t in the original tweet is that Jack Kimble is not a real representative.
Apart from that, there is no other context. The tweet is exactly as it appears to be, it’s not a reference to anything else.
Either you understand that it’s a joke or not.
it’s frustrating that people react and spread misinformation without doing the bare minimum of research, but I don’t think making obvious satire is frustrating. if anything hopefully people learn from it and stop taking screenshots of things as truths
True.
I think that as we move towards shorter and shorter clips/tweets, there’s an assumed prior context that is often missing. For example, Borat or Stephen Colbert’s character on The Daily Show are clear caricatures but when you have a 5-second clip out of context, it actually feeds into the narrative it is ridiculing.
The same goes for naming cosplaying an elected official.
Drag assumed it was a joke to begin with. The graph is too generic.
That page was a lot of waffle to say it’s a satire tweet from a fictional congressman.
what’s up lemmyed
Nothing much, how 'bout you?
They presumably come from Voted.
I just meant upvote, but I half remembered some lemmy folks hating certain terms because they’re from reddit (like calling communities subs) , and I thought upvote was one of them. However, I couldn’t remember the lemmy equivalent, so I said uplemmyed. But taking time to do a quick search, upvote seems to be widely used, so I’m not sure what term I was thinking of…