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Reality you can't find in fiction (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

V for Vendetta seems close though

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I kind of thought this was the joke. Many many dystopian plots are about governments ran by corporations and filled with foreign spies.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I figured this was just kind of a blurb by someone who just lacks depth in knowledge of these things

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Sarcasm often employs acting as someone who lacks knowledge about something. You can easily identify this when the person describes something unusually specific.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago

It's not unusually specific here, per se. It's just a list with descriptions of several Americans who were elected into government. I couldn't name novel or movie characters that precisely fit these traits off the top of my head.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Yeah same