• RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 days ago

    "It's tricky now because satire has become reality," he said. "We were really trying to make fun of what was going on but we couldn't keep up, and what was actually happening was much funnier than anything we could come up with.

    That is true though. Especially during his first candidacy when most outside the US never heard of him yet he seemed to have jumped right out of a caricature. We only stopped laughing when he actually won.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      12 days ago

      what was actually happening was much funnier than anything we could come up with.

      When they punch down at disadvantaged people or make smug caricatures of people performing the cardinal white dudebro libertarian sin of caring too much, that shit isn't funny to me and they've been doing that for three decades anyway.