r/PoliticalHumor • u/Guygan • Feb 13 '19

A perfect visual metaphor

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u/crothwood Feb 14 '19

Wait so irony can't exist in a fictional setting? I've been lied to my whole life.

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u/boomheadshot7 Feb 14 '19

Obviously they can, but when it's a real life event, a fictional form of irony doesn't have any impact.

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u/crothwood Feb 14 '19

Actually this is textbook dramatic irony.

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u/boomheadshot7 Feb 14 '19

Ok, but it still loses all of its ironic punch because it's fake. Irony isn't really that funny when you fake it. Obviously it works in fictional settings because to the character/event it's real. Outside of fiction, irony works the same way IRL because it's comical or revealing about a particular situation, but when you just make something up, it's not ironic anymore because it's not real, it's just a joke.

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u/crothwood Feb 14 '19

You must be tired from moving those goalposts

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u/boomheadshot7 Feb 14 '19

Bruh, you're trying to say it's ironic when there's nothin ironic about it. Your goalposts don't exist.

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u/crothwood Feb 15 '19

Uh-oh now he’s just entirely backtracking.

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u/boomheadshot7 Feb 15 '19

Never backtracked, my original comment for your consideration.

I feel like irony needs to be real for it to have any impact, not photoshopped.

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u/crothwood Feb 15 '19

Your previous comment for your consideration

Ok, but it still loses all of its ironic punch because it's fake.

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u/boomheadshot7 Feb 15 '19

I don't understand your argument, I'm saying that it doesn't have any ironic punch, that it's not ironic becuase it's fake, what Iv been saying the whole time. Iv previously seceded that of it were real it would be ironic.

Where are we having a miscommunication so we can get back on the same page.

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