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[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It’s not meant to be funny. It’s meant to be shocking and lead your outrage in a quest to disprove the core tenet, only to be forced to confront the awful element/actual reality the article was satirizing.

The “oooof that’s hits close to home” reaction is the entire point