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...
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.
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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Well they are literally taking birds and turning them into robotic drones now.
Edit: it's real, I'm clearly being silenced by the shadow government.
https://www.livescience.com/animals/birds/taxidermy-birds-are-being-turned-into-drones
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.
Shows how delusional Lemmy can be that this OBVIOUS troll post is being taken seriously. The “tipping landlords” bit is a running gag.
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.
True, but Lemmy tends to be VERY fundamentalist from a political standpoint.
I’m pretty liberal but the extent of it makes users gullible. If you hate another group enough it’s easy to believe almost anything about them.
What would you teach? There's no clear indicators of sarcasm here. You would have to have the cultural-economic knowledge to know whether tipping landlords is expected and prior knowledge that this is a running joke apparently (I just found out from this thread). And poe's law applies. This isn't some political cartoon in a newspaper
I hear you, and I can only speak from my own cultural education, which I learned over time from exposure.
In this meme, I feel that "tipping landlords" is pretty apparent, given that landlords are not employees nor do they provide a service. I've never known anyone to give a tip to a landlord.
"Cuck Chair" should be another tip off as well, since this is a reference to another meme.
You would have to have the cultural-economic knowledge to know
This is likely true of most memes though, where the culture to know, are memes themselves. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra, and whatnot.
There are indeed already college and university courses to study memes, so if I were to seriously think about what to teach in a highschool I'd probably base the curriculum somewhat on that.
The funny thing about Poe's Law is that it implies that the crazies can't tell satire from agreement as well.
I don't know how much cuck chairs cost, but if they are aware that they are expensive and I am not, it implies something about them.
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.
The Egolon's Nazi sycophants do. As well as the bots. But I believe there is a discount for bot accounts per thousand.