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Is that politics in the sense of conservatism please keep the world as it was when I was a kid or politics in the sense of this should happen or it's a joke?

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I'm making a joke about how aggressive the flag mobs have gotten, of all political stripes

Yes it's a bad joke

>I'm making a joke about...

Probably a good time to read up again on Poe's Law[0], which does always pertain to attempted sarcasm in online forums.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

I thought the winky tongue sticking out face would signify but alas

Sadly comes off as the kind of comment the people who mass flag anything with certain keywords would post, in a mocking sort of way.

Of course the really sad thing is that it was indeed flagged by what I can only describe as a brigade of ostriches, the ostrich brigade. They stick their heads in the sand.

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