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rhcom2 5 hours ago

And Jonathan Swift was actually advocating eating children.

jonny_eh 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Jonathan Swift was a writer and known satirist with publicly known views that were opposite to the absurdist views expressed in his famous satire.

palmotea 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> And Jonathan Swift was actually advocating eating children.

If you're going to engage in satire, its best the satire be obvious.

I believe there are capitalist economist types who believe what Summers wrote unironically.

rhcom2 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Also known as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

mwcremer an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Sorry, did you mean "Summers unironically wrote" or "capitalist economist types unironically believe" ?