• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    people that

    Why write ‘that’ instead of ‘who’ ?

    Only expected so much from a guy who refers to people like they were mere things.

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    Next you’ll probably tell me that one out of every four people make up 25% of the population. Hogwash!

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      That’s the frustrating thing about the current internet climate. In a time when less and less people are interested in researching the backstory of a tweet/policy/person, things like this are shared w/o context. Had to go down a rabbit hole to realize it’s a fake satire writer.

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        I get where you’re coming from and tend to agree. And yet in this case, he says the bottom 25% are in the bottom 25%. That’s literally just how numbers work. That’s the entire substance of the post. That seems a clear joke, imo.

        But I guess I say that, and then there’s Rep MTG who says far dumber shit, except completely seriously. I guess it’s hard to tell the difference between joke stupid and real stupid these days.

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        things like this are shared w/o context

        I mean, the only information in that truthorfiction link that wasn’t in the original tweet is that Jack Kimble is not a real representative.
        Apart from that, there is no other context. The tweet is exactly as it appears to be, it’s not a reference to anything else.
        Either you understand that it’s a joke or not.

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        it’s frustrating that people react and spread misinformation without doing the bare minimum of research, but I don’t think making obvious satire is frustrating. if anything hopefully people learn from it and stop taking screenshots of things as truths

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          True.

          I think that as we move towards shorter and shorter clips/tweets, there’s an assumed prior context that is often missing. For example, Borat or Stephen Colbert’s character on The Daily Show are clear caricatures but when you have a 5-second clip out of context, it actually feeds into the narrative it is ridiculing.

          The same goes for naming cosplaying an elected official.

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      That page was a lot of waffle to say it’s a satire tweet from a fictional congressman.

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      Lucky for you, the post contains an animated JPEG showing the change over time. Lemmy clients that don’t support playback will only show a static image

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      I commented at the same time as you, otherwise I’d have replied to you directly. It is a real tweet, but satire, Jack Kimble is not a real politician (he purports to represent California’s 54th district, out of 52).

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    As a person educated in the American system I can confirm I’ve never heard the word quartile before.

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        I haven’t been in school for a long time. I’ll ask my son, he’s 17 just for shits and giggles.

        It amazes me, and if you are in school it will amaze you later in life, how much more kids are expected to know and how early they learn it.

        Well… Assuming America doesn’t completely tank education soon. That isn’t a jab at a political party either. We’ve never really supported education, we’ve never made it a priority, we’ve never paid teachers well.

        My parents were both dedicated teachers, I’ve seen the work involved. I make more than teachers do as a store manager. I work ridiculously hard for my pay as well but my point is that it’s not nearly as important as teachers.

        So that’s my point. We’ve never put much effort into education but children today are far more advanced than children of my generation.

        Imagine what we could accomplish if our society DID value education. What we could accomplish in a single generation.