Does it fail as satire? Does this kind of thing work as good satire for specific people?
Satire is useless for anything other than entertainment purposes. It entertains everyone that dislikes the thing being attacked, and it similarly entertains everyone that likes the thing being attacked.
Satire is the production of media that depicts the thing those under satirical attack aspire to be. They always simply coopt it as something they like.
It should be viewed purely as a form of entertainment and not as any form of political use because it basically has none.
I disagree with your point about satire always being coopted. It depends on depiction and the "values" of the satirized group.
A lot of negative depictions coopted by nazis show them as scary, cruel, genocidal, obsessed with purity. They love that shit, because they only care about strength and power. Show them as weak and pathetic and they are much less likely to latch onto it.
Satire is useless for anything other than entertainment purposes. It entertains everyone that dislikes the thing being attacked, and it similarly entertains everyone that likes the thing being attacked.
Satire is the production of media that depicts the thing those under satirical attack aspire to be. They always simply coopt it as something they like.
It should be viewed purely as a form of entertainment and not as any form of political use because it basically has none.
I disagree with your point about satire always being coopted. It depends on depiction and the "values" of the satirized group.
A lot of negative depictions coopted by nazis show them as scary, cruel, genocidal, obsessed with purity. They love that shit, because they only care about strength and power. Show them as weak and pathetic and they are much less likely to latch onto it.
That's not satire it's fact.