• nailingjello@lemmy.zip
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    19 hours ago

    Next you’ll probably tell me that one out of every four people make up 25% of the population. Hogwash!

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      17 hours ago

      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.

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        things like this are shared w/o context

        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.

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        17 hours ago

        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.

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        16 hours ago

        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

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          13 hours ago

          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.

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      16 hours ago

      That page was a lot of waffle to say it’s a satire tweet from a fictional congressman.

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    19 hours ago

    As a person educated in the American system I can confirm I’ve never heard the word quartile before.

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      21 hours ago

      I commented at the same time as you, otherwise I’d have replied to you directly. It is a real tweet, but satire, Jack Kimble is not a real politician (he purports to represent California’s 54th district, out of 52).

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    21 hours ago

    people in the lower quartile coming in the comment section looking for explanation