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    that’s satire, right? has to be. please. “unemployed minors”, that’s just a fancy phrase for “children” who ARE IN SCHOOL

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    My single favorite report was on this one.

    Misleading title, it’s not clear this is a parody post.

    For those that don’t know, it’s a parody.

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      It is obvious because of “couches”, but apart from that, it could have been 100% Fox “News”.

      Making parodies in modern times is a difficult business. You make up a joke, just to see that reality just overtook you with the pedal to the metal.

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        It sucks that I was unsure at “unemployed minors,” because the party is overtly pro-child labor and that bad at optics.

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      Honestly the only thing that threw me off is taxes on couches. Otherwise I would’ve thought this was real

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        Nah I was completely ready to believe that Fox News would take a joke Walz made about couches (which I knew he did) and claim it was an assault on money and freedom.

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      I honestly didn’t believe you until I saw the “Tax on corporate profits, couches”

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      Dang it. I hate seeing my state brought up in politics, which is often. And there’s my governor.

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        Soon to be was your governor.

        It must feel like when everyone suddenly discovers the cool band you’ve listened to for years.

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          Sorry, I meant my Arkansas governor in the comments in Reddit celebrating child labor.

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            My favorite comment in that thread:

            They chose this as the best photo for the press release. Were the children crying in the others?

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      Did they just change the list? I’m not sure what to think if the title headline is accurate or not.

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        I’d say it’s innacurate.

        TBH I reported it. I think the title should at least suggest its a parody, though I’m not sure if OP knows it is.

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      I feel like this will be shared uncritically by people who sincerely oppose women having “unsupervised female health decisions” et al.

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    Meanwhile Trump is proudly sharing clips of his promise to start the largest mass deportations in the history of the country.

    Both sides though.

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    “UNSUPERVISED FEMALE HEALTH DECISIONS” bruh, it’s like, tell me you hate women without saying you hate women 🤦‍♂️

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    I mean, it’s obviously fake, but on the other hand, it’s disturbingly close to something they’d actually show to rile up their not-so-smart-or-empathetic viewers.

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      if “tampon tim” is an actual thing in their toolbox, then literally anything could be

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    ROFL They are making him seem like the best candidate to me! The ‘unemployed minors’ is wild, it’s as if the MAGA don’t believe students are real. (to prevent future comments saying it’s fake, I want to say that I don’t actually believe this is real. I should’ve been clearer, to be honest).

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        Haha, yeah, the MAGA can only see them as future workers instead of mere children! Also, the couches bit really extorted a chuckle out of me. The meme about JD Vance (not based on fact) is certainly penetrating the political discussion. As JD Vance is weird enough to make it mildly believable.

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      Yeah, I mean it’s clearly satire, but really only because of that one line. I don’t think they were actually trying to fool anyone, but if they were, all they’d need to do is delete “unemployed” and I wouldn’t have thought this was fake at all.

      And “couches” obviously.

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        It is satire, yes, it was very Onion-y. It made all the ‘quiet parts’ which Republicans used to keep silence before…Loud and Clear. If they had simply kept “unemployed” but deleted the reference to couches, I would’ve actually believed this to be true. As Fox News is highly falsified news, I wouldn’t have been able to tell the difference from their normal denial of reality.

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        “It is satire, yes, it was very Onion-y. It made all the ‘quiet parts’ which Republicans used to keep silence before…Loud and Clear. If they had simply kept “unemployed” but deleted the reference to couches, I would’ve actually believed this to be true. As Fox News is highly falsified news, I wouldn’t have been able to tell the difference from their normal denial of reality.” My response to another commenter, I never said I believed it.

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    Canada is right here, guys, and we’re only sorry we don’t have free college. Free dental is coming, though.