this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2025
488 points (99.2% liked)

Comic Strips

13537 readers
2633 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

Web of links

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I honestly believe Stephan Pastis is a better and more insightful satirist than anything you would see on (for example) The Daily Show.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have no idea why you think people inside a Fox News/Newsmax/etc. right ring media bubble are absorbing the same news. They very much are not. 10 minutes spent on either source, or many, many other right-wing sources and you will be in a different, and very much fictional, universe.

[–] Metz@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The point is, they are there of their own free will. They want to be lied to. They want to use it to justify their inherent hatred. They are not good people who have been seduced by evil. They are evil. Maybe not all of them but most. You can't talk with them, you can not convert them back to good.

Or maybe i'm just bitter and frustrated, who knows.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

They are there after a lifetime of indoctrination in right-wing views. Do you think someone raised evangelical from birth is able to just shake that off? Not that many people escape.