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Do you have examples of useful satire?
I am willing to debate this and reconsider my view but I never see anyone materially demonstrate its usefulness.
Aamon Animations' stuff.
Is this satire? Or full on lampooning? Depicting the other side as giant fucking alien biblical monsters doesn't seem satirical but a rather direct and clear attack.
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Right ok but that's not really the kind of satire we're talking about is it? I mean, we can get technical about word definitions or we can talk about what we're actually criticising which is a specific strain of content that depicts something that is only understood to be humour/critique when looking at the subtext of the content using some sort of media literacy.
My point here is that if you don't need to analyse or read subtext to understand it's satire, it's not what we're talking about when we say satire doesn't work.