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Satire Is Necessary For A Healthy Society

Posted by allosaur 4 years, 1 month ago to Humor

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This form of humor is essential to our freedom; und mein comrade, should you disagree, consider yourself reported.

SOURCE URL: https://fee.org/articles/satire-s-censors-should-lighten-up/

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Posted by Lucky 4 years, 1 month ago

Good stuff. The quote from C.S. Lewis is worth repeating:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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  Posted by allosaur 4 years, 1 month ago
  
  "Tormenting America for its own good" should be a slogan of the entire know-it-all Jackass Party.
  
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Posted by freedomforall 4 years, 1 month ago

Looking for amazing satire? Look no further than Gilbert and Sullivan musicals.
https://youtu.be/FXf0o2d-W5w?t=117

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  Posted by allosaur 4 years, 1 month ago
  
  Freedom, maybe I picked that up from you two or three years ago. Used to play that video snippet once a night. Old dino's memory forgot completely
  about it until now. Today that major general made me think of a keener brighter "full of it" Biden.
  
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    Posted by freedomforall 4 years, 1 month ago
    
    You won't be able to get that tune out f your mind for hours unless you play something else ;^)
    G&S's Mikado is another satire against the British Empire. Some great lyrics in those songs, too.
    I wish that we had someone like G&S for critical popular satire when the Feds decided to attack Iraq and Afghanistan after 9-11. WMD's, bull.
    What a terrible waste of trillions in irreplaceable resources and tens of thousands of fine young people.
    
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      Posted by allosaur 4 years, 1 month ago
      
      This link for those not yet in the know~~
      https://nypost.com/2019/12/14/lying-b...
      
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Posted by freedomforall 4 years, 1 month ago

Now this is some real Russian interference for you Dino.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5GRp...

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  Posted by allosaur 4 years, 1 month ago
  
  When me dino used to go to Alabama home football games (before Type 2 diabetes messed my feet up), Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" was played over the PA before every game started. Not by Finns looking like Trump had more children. Never heard of these guys before and just had to look them up.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leningr...
  https://www.google.com/search?q=lenin...
  
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Posted by Olduglycarl 4 years, 1 month ago

True, it's really difficult to transmit satire with the mere writing of words...there is never enough exclamation points, asterisks or stars to get your point across...someone is always Not going to get it.

I recently got thrown off twitter for reciting a phrase the way we did in the old days, it was usually about ourselves: Yep, eat shit and die, except I was correcting someone that just said: Eat Shit, I informed them that it should be: Eat Schiff and Die...now the twitts thought I wished someone harm.
You know what?...THEY, can eat schiff and die...the boy is Poison!

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  Posted by allosaur 4 years, 1 month ago
  
  Twitter must be run by some of the "omnipotent moral busybodies" Lucky mentioned here.
  Me dino is content to do my "social messaging" in The Gulch and with a "pen pal" I have in my email.
  
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