7 mo. ago • 100%

Does anyone actually pay for Twitter Blue?

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I'm sorry, is there actually anyone out there who takes the idea of tipping one's landlord seriously? I always thought this was just an absurdist running gag...

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- It will have been (or was?) a running gag til someone took it seriously. Like birdsarentreal used to be a flatearthers parody.
  No matter how absurd the thing one makes up, there will be idiots believing in it.
  
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  Satire has to be deployed with skill and intent, otherwise morons will mistake it for basic representation.
  
  I fear half the problem is the sheer ignorance to how even engaging with those terrible ideas has to be done carefully, and everyone just wants to crack jokes.
  
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Who the fuck tips their landlord anyway?

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Poe's Law strikes again. Based on the community, I'm to take it as a right-wing meme, but this feels like a parody of a right-wing meme, or at least a parody of something.

But assuming it's real, holy wow, that list of things that the meme-maker thinks people spend money on is the clearest, most-explicit result of right-wing projection I've seen in a long time.

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- Shows how delusional Lemmy can be that this OBVIOUS troll post is being taken seriously. The “tipping landlords” bit is a running gag.
  
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  This isn't a Lemmy problem, this is just the Internet. I feel like we need to start teaching how to recognize sarcasm and parody in different styles to kids in school.
  
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Who the fuck tips landlords? You pay them, they provide a place to live. That's the end of the transaction.

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- "Provide"
  
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Tip landlords? What? Everyone in the States have lost their minds.

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I've had a few different landlords over my lifetime and some of them are being quite bad and others have been okay but even the bad ones never expected me to tip them. They just wanted the rent and didn't want to do maintenance. Which was bad, obviously, but at least they never pretended it was good.

I also think it's amusing that the right think that NFT is a thing that people other than them buy.

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Damn my inquisitive nature but I have to ask..wtf is a "cuck chair"??

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- it's from this meme, circa 2019–22
  
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- It's when you sit in a chair and make another chair watch
  
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