I love BB because it exposes absurdity in today's news. - That's the beauty of satire.

Posted: Mar 13th, 2019 - 2:09 pm In Reply to: It's either satire or NOT satire... - SM

It takes elements in a story and exposes absurdity and practices through exaggeration or irony.

In other words, satire has a way of pointing to truth in a rather amusing way. Too bad some people are so uncomfortable with that enough that they don't even want it to be posted.

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