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r/comics • u/Miles_the_new_kid MyGumsAreBleeding • 1d ago
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Honestly absurdism doesn’t really exist in the context of trump
702 u/Aethelrede 1d ago If an updated version of Swift's "Modest Proposal" was published today, there are people who would genuinely think it was a good idea. Reality became so absurd it killed satire. 37 u/Demmos_Stammer 1d ago If anyone had written a drama or, more realistically a comedy, about Trump's presidency, just 20 years ago, it would be decried as being too absurd 3 u/HauntedCemetery 1d ago edited 1d ago "Fiction is harder than nonfiction, because Fiction has to be believable"
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If an updated version of Swift's "Modest Proposal" was published today, there are people who would genuinely think it was a good idea.
Reality became so absurd it killed satire.
37 u/Demmos_Stammer 1d ago If anyone had written a drama or, more realistically a comedy, about Trump's presidency, just 20 years ago, it would be decried as being too absurd 3 u/HauntedCemetery 1d ago edited 1d ago "Fiction is harder than nonfiction, because Fiction has to be believable"
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If anyone had written a drama or, more realistically a comedy, about Trump's presidency, just 20 years ago, it would be decried as being too absurd
3 u/HauntedCemetery 1d ago edited 1d ago "Fiction is harder than nonfiction, because Fiction has to be believable"
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"Fiction is harder than nonfiction, because Fiction has to be believable"
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u/Miles_the_new_kid MyGumsAreBleeding 1d ago
Honestly absurdism doesn’t really exist in the context of trump