A Babylon Bee prophecy fulfilled in record time
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I love the guys at Bee, but this is a horrible point in the time-line when main stream media can get away with being this level of bias.
I'm so fucking tired of CNN. The amount of blatant propaganda is disgusting. You shouldn't even have to like Trump to see it's a reality show. The news media shouldn't be pro either candidate and just simply lay out the facts and let me fucking decide myself. But the facts would support Joe Biden mental state is declining and Hillary has a lot to do with bad shit.
CNN is owned by AT&T. Therefore they are the mouthpiece of a megacorp. Whatever they are saying is in some way to benefit that megacorp. If it's not ratings they're seeking (and CNN's are terrible), then it's something else.
Scott Adams referred to this as the parody inversion point in one of his Dilbert comics.
Hate to break it to you and Scott...
Poe's Law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied.
Sorry to Poe and Adams, but MM got there first:
Muggeridge’s Law: there is no way that a writer of fiction can compete with real life for its pure absurdity.
Poe's original law said: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article."
The same happened to Muggeridge:
Sorry to Poe, Adams, and Muggeridge, but Lord Bryon got there first with his 1824 epic poem Don Juan:
' Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction; if it could be told,
How much would novels gain by the exchange!
How differently the world would men behold!
Jesus christ. The comments in that thread.
"OMG NO MASK, THEY ALL GONNA DIE".
Do people really think that going out without a mask is a death sentence?
Since they have no actual facts? They have to double down on the emotions. :/ Fear is first and foremost.
The entirety of reddit does in fact think that
Damn, it's not even two weeks ahead of the curve now, it's just minutes.
Bee just needs to go to reporting hard facts now...
BB is now just providing inspiration for the headbangers.