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It's the dunk tank.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Ok but counterpoint, that sounds like a really unfun, boring, and artistically questionable way to write fiction.

Honestly i think the solution is just accepting that morons are not the responsability of the author lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

The real solution is more just being conscious and aware of how things can be misinterpreted and how the expected audience's biases will effect how they interpret it (so Starship Troopers to a leftist audience is funny satire, but to an American audience is just saying what Americans unironically believe but in a silly way). But that's soft, easily forgotten advice compared to an exhortation to always be blunt and hyperbolic, delivered in a blunt and hyperbolic way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

That plus accepting that art follows politics, not vice-versa.