• otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    At press time, Todd Phillips was ushered off stage after breaking down into tears, claiming he was a “nice guy.”

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      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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        We used to be able to enjoy and laugh at satire because politicians had enough sanity that we could easily tell it apart.

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          Back in the day, if I read “Sitting president calls for a coup d’état after hearing he lost the election” we could laugh and go “oh, you silly satirical newspaper, such a thing would never happen, this was an amusing diversion from the mundane!”

          Now we go “Oh my god, turn on basically any news channel, there’s people trying to murder congress and hang the vice president and nobody is trying to stop them” and continue on FOR FOUR GODDAMN YEARS LIKE NOTHING FUCKING HAPPENED

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    My biggest issue was when I heard it was a musical. I was out. I hate musicals but I also hate a random genre shift like that so I knew I was not going to watch it. When they hired gaga I just had a chuckle but moved on