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Born in the USA Was a Protest Song (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by alphanerd4@lemmy.world to c/usauthoritarianism@lemmy.world

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[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 90 points 11 months ago (4 children)

It’s a studies thing. Conservatives are unable to grasp irony or sarcasm. It’s one of the reasons Steven Colbert stopped his show. The people he was mocking were holding his character up as someone to aspire to.

[–] pythonoob@programming.dev 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What?! I didn't know that

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

yep, conservatives watched him unironically.

[–] MidRomney@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago

I watched The Colbert Report for years with my mom before realizing that she was just straight up agreeing with the things he was saying.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 20 points 11 months ago

Colbert's parody of a right wing weirdo was actually fairly tame compared to the actual right wing weirdos of today.

He got out at the right time, there's no way he could say things crazier than what Trump and his minions are saying every day.

[–] addictedtochaos@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

you are shitting me, are you serious??? that cant be right

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's apparently the reason he got picked to do the correspondent's dinner in 2006. If they'd known what he was actually going to do, they never would have invited him.

[–] addictedtochaos@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i have to watch that, thanks!

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Oh it’s really funny but some of the jokes are just painful now, namely the climate ones.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They thought they had found their new Wally George.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 11 months ago

This dude listens to Behind the Bastards