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Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes hard to tell, especially after all these years of Trump. Is “the election was stolen” satire? The difference between satire and reality is in the intent of the author, harder and harder to detect as people read less and less of it

I think the QAnon stuff was originally satire or joking around. It was just a hypothetical thing like “can you imagine?” There was probably some sarcastic tongue-in-cheek responses with false confirmation: “can you believe [absurd thing] is actually true!,” etc. Some less savvy people didn’t pick up on it, and we know the disastrous results. I wonder how the original “Q” poster feels that it was taken completely seri…

That’s an interesting take.

Re: Trolls convinced journalists they were “abortion bounty hunters”

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>Reading responses like this, more than anything, I am reminded of C.S. Lewis: > Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite true, or not quite so bad as it was made out. Is one’s first feeling, ‘Thank God, even they aren’t quite so bad as that,’ or is it a feeling of disappointment, and even a determination to cling to…

Screwtape Letters?

The quote was from Mere Christianity
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