#selfparody — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #selfparody, aggregated by home.social.
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I just don't get #Christianity anymore.
(Joke. I unfortunately fully understand what's happening here.)
#christiannationalism #fakeexpert #bullshit #wtf #selfparody #satireisdead
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I just don't get #Christianity anymore.
(Joke. I unfortunately fully understand what's happening here.)
#christiannationalism #fakeexpert #bullshit #wtf #selfparody #satireisdead
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I just don't get #Christianity anymore.
(Joke. I unfortunately fully understand what's happening here.)
#christiannationalism #fakeexpert #bullshit #wtf #selfparody #satireisdead
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I just don't get #Christianity anymore.
(Joke. I unfortunately fully understand what's happening here.)
#christiannationalism #fakeexpert #bullshit #wtf #selfparody #satireisdead
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I just don't get #Christianity anymore.
(Joke. I unfortunately fully understand what's happening here.)
#christiannationalism #fakeexpert #bullshit #wtf #selfparody #satireisdead
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Shocked, I tell you shocked.
That he had any friends that is.
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Shocked, I tell you shocked.
That he had any friends that is.
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Shocked, I tell you shocked.
That he had any friends that is.
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Shocked, I tell you shocked.
That he had any friends that is.
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Shocked, I tell you shocked.
That he had any friends that is.
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"What a pathetic, whiny little loser. Everyone knows that Trump stole the Nobel Prize medal to assuage his fragile ego. Trump is going to lose even more support among young men who have a preternatural ability to spot an insecure poser."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #madman #SelfParody #megalomania #fascism #dictator #psychopath #NobelPeacePrize #Machado
/5https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/addressing-misconceptions-about-the
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Peter Rothpletz sums up the Orwellian reversal of sense in Machado's giving a "peace" prize to Trump:
"War is peace."
#Trump #madman #SelfParody #megalomania #fascism #dictator #psychopath #NobelPeacePrize #Machado
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“A medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel peace prize laureate cannot.”
~ Nobel Peace Prize Committee in posting on X quoted by Nicola Slawson
#Trump #madman #SelfParody #megalomania #fascism #dictator #psychopath #NobelPeacePrize #Machado
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"María Corina Machado on her meeting with Trump: 'I presented the president of the United States with the Nobel Peace Prize/”
~ Aaron Rupar
#Trump #madman #SelfParody #megalomania #fascism #dictator #psychopath #NobelPeacePrize #Machado
/2https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mcik2yuvy22s
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"He’s become a grotesque figure. It’s similar to historical figures like Nero or Caligula. Their madness took over and they started doing wildly destructive things. Trump is in that place.”
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #madman #SelfParody #megalomania #fascism #dictator #psychopath #NobelPeacePrize
/1https://www.publicnotice.co/p/simon-rosenberg-interview-trump-decline
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"You had a Corona.
I was drinkin a Bud Light."- actual lyric for an actual country music song, in 2024
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@pzmyers Late to the game on this. The penny just dropped for me listening to the 14 December Ideas segment "God: Leibniz vs Voltaire", because though the eyeglasses argument is Voltaire's it's presented as parody through his pastiche caricature of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Dr. Pangloss, in Candide.
Media: https://cbc.mc.tritondigital.com/CBC_IDEAS_P/media/ideas-r7zAV7VP-20201214.mp3
Which reminded me I'd seen your earlier toot.
The useful takeaway is that so many ideological arguments aren't even original. They're the same old repeatedly debunked bullshit that's been repeated for years, decades, and centuries --- see Bishop Berkeley's 19th century watchmaker and eye arguments against Darwin still widely repeated. AiG are simply parroting, and plagiarising, these same old lines.
Or in this case, the parody of an argument, put forward in all seriousness. Proof both of Irony's death and the power of Poe's Law.
Neither the YouTube segment nor AIG's website (https://web.archive.org/web/20150513154628/https://answersingenesis.org/human-body/body-of-evidence-making-an-apeman/v) reference Voltair, despite clearly appropriating his concept, most likely out of sheer intellectual laziness and dishonesty, but also avoiding the ever so slightly inconvenient truth that Voltaire was violently punking Leibniz, as well as 260 years of subsequent evidence and argument. And the fact that the tactic implicitly assumes its audience idiots.
It's the ultimate in bad-faith (both senses) bullshit rhetoric.
But this tactic is common. It occurs not just in creationist spew, but in economics (RationalWiki has an extensive section on the Panglossian tradition in Austrian economic, Libertarianism, and Neolineralism: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Austrian_school#Paging_Dr._Pangloss). It also means that rather than bothering to argue de novo against much of this deliberate bullshittery, a first response (should you decide any response is in fact warranted other than "their lips are moving, they are lying") should be to identify the initial version, and fallacy, of the argument.
Difficult when facepalming or headdesking, but all the same.
#creationism #rhetoric #TiredArguments #BullshitArguments #Bullshit #AnswersInGernisis #BadFaithArgument #parody #SelfParody #IdiotsForDummies