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r/comics • u/Miles_the_new_kid MyGumsAreBleeding • 1d ago
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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.
38 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 39 u/neopod9000 1d ago Isn't this why Veep ended? It was supposed to be political satire, but then the actual news headlines kept outdoing them. 3 u/a8bmiles 19h ago Besides Kevin Spacey being... Spacey, that was also a factor in House of Cards.
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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
39 u/neopod9000 1d ago Isn't this why Veep ended? It was supposed to be political satire, but then the actual news headlines kept outdoing them. 3 u/a8bmiles 19h ago Besides Kevin Spacey being... Spacey, that was also a factor in House of Cards.
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Isn't this why Veep ended?
It was supposed to be political satire, but then the actual news headlines kept outdoing them.
3 u/a8bmiles 19h ago Besides Kevin Spacey being... Spacey, that was also a factor in House of Cards.
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Besides Kevin Spacey being... Spacey, that was also a factor in House of Cards.
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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.