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

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[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year 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 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What?! I didn't know that

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yep, conservatives watched him unironically.

[–] MidRomney@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

i have to watch that, thanks!

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

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

They thought they had found their new Wally George.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

This dude listens to Behind the Bastards