I’m sorry, is there actually anyone out there who takes the idea of tipping one’s landlord seriously? I always thought this was just an absurdist running gag…
It will have been (or was?) a running gag til someone took it seriously. Like birdsarentreal used to be a flatearthers parody.
No matter how absurd the thing one makes up, there will be idiots believing in it.Satire has to be deployed with skill and intent, otherwise morons will mistake it for basic representation.
I fear half the problem is the sheer ignorance to how even engaging with those terrible ideas has to be done carefully, and everyone just wants to crack jokes.
Well they are literally taking birds and turning them into robotic drones now.
Edit: it’s real, I’m clearly being silenced by the shadow government.
https://www.livescience.com/animals/birds/taxidermy-birds-are-being-turned-into-drones
So they are real then. Checkmate atheists
For sure, and there’s a clear cut campaign to silence me.
So was Trump for president of the U.S at one point. Unfortunately absurdism is dangerous to use nowadays.
Who the fuck tips their landlord anyway?
Poe’s Law strikes again. Based on the community, I’m to take it as a right-wing meme, but this feels like a parody of a right-wing meme, or at least a parody of something.
But assuming it’s real, holy wow, that list of things that the meme-maker thinks people spend money on is the clearest, most-explicit result of right-wing projection I’ve seen in a long time.
Shows how delusional Lemmy can be that this OBVIOUS troll post is being taken seriously. The “tipping landlords” bit is a running gag.
This isn’t a Lemmy problem, this is just the Internet. I feel like we need to start teaching how to recognize sarcasm and parody in different styles to kids in school.
True, but Lemmy tends to be VERY fundamentalist from a political standpoint.
I’m pretty liberal but the extent of it makes users gullible. If you hate another group enough it’s easy to believe almost anything about them.
What would you teach? There’s no clear indicators of sarcasm here. You would have to have the cultural-economic knowledge to know whether tipping landlords is expected and prior knowledge that this is a running joke apparently (I just found out from this thread). And poe’s law applies. This isn’t some political cartoon in a newspaper
I hear you, and I can only speak from my own cultural education, which I learned over time from exposure.
In this meme, I feel that “tipping landlords” is pretty apparent, given that landlords are not employees nor do they provide a service. I’ve never known anyone to give a tip to a landlord.
“Cuck Chair” should be another tip off as well, since this is a reference to another meme.
You would have to have the cultural-economic knowledge to know
This is likely true of most memes though, where the culture to know, are memes themselves. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra, and whatnot.
There are indeed already college and university courses to study memes, so if I were to seriously think about what to teach in a highschool I’d probably base the curriculum somewhat on that.
Critical thinking is discouraged in schools, they want good cookie-cutter workers.
Idk looking at his Twitter page im not certain it’s satire
The funny thing about Poe’s Law is that it implies that the crazies can’t tell satire from agreement as well.
Remember all of the conservatives who loved The Colbert Report unironically?
Some people when satire :
Who the fuck tips landlords? You pay them, they provide a place to live. That’s the end of the transaction.
“Provide”
Buy a house they can’t afford then make other people pay the mortgage.
Right?
And are people still gambling on nfts?
I had a bunch of students I practically begged to not spend their money on a bunch of Monkey portrait NFT crap.
Now they (about 4-5 that I actually saw purchasing) own… something? A receipt for being gullible?
Isn’t this obvious satire? This isn’t a right wing meme, it’s making fun of right wing memes.
I don’t know how much cuck chairs cost, but if they are aware that they are expensive and I am not, it implies something about them.
I had no idea it was a thing until i saw this meme.
Back the fuck up. ‘Tip’ landlords? I think you mean bribing.
This is great satire
The fuck is a cuck chair?
The chair in the corner of the room you sit in while you watch your SO fuck someone else. Like those chairs in hotel rooms that always face the bed but don’t have any tables next to them.
That’s just a chair in the corner of the room, which might be fine for a hobbyist just starting out. I’m looking for a proper dedicated cuck chair?
@ivanafterall something like this?
No, that’s a Goon Chair, you can tell by the screens. It’s a common mistake to make.
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Swing and a miss, satire is dying :(
“Tipping the landlord” its not like he already gets half my income!
Tip landlords? What? Everyone in the States have lost their minds.
It’s not a thing here, at all… This is the first I’ve ever seen it said. Same goes for tipping cashiers.
Our tipping culture is bullshit, but this just isn’t anything close to reality.
Nearly every small shop and cafe has a tip option on their cashier POS and you usually have to opt out.
True, but when I hear “tips for cashiers,” restaurants/food services don’t come to my mind. It makes me think of like supermarkets, clothing stores, dollar stores, etc.
I feel like I have seen tip options on those portable POS that a lot of independent vendors use… That would have been pre-pandemic though as I don’t frequent markets anymore
I’ve had a few different landlords over my lifetime and some of them are being quite bad and others have been okay but even the bad ones never expected me to tip them. They just wanted the rent and didn’t want to do maintenance. Which was bad, obviously, but at least they never pretended it was good.
I also think it’s amusing that the right think that NFT is a thing that people other than them buy.
LMFAO, they actually used “tipping cashiers” as an example. 🤣
