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I was very clear. Read it until you understand.

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Babylon Bee is funny. Too bad you have no sense of humor.

Here, allow me to facilitate your understanding of the statement that was in my meme. It stated:

"When you post Babylon Bee articles, AI format fake search results & videos

TwitterX bits, and assorted bs Facebook posts like they were true but call everything not MAGA, fake news"

The Babylon Bee is satire. I had to explain this a couple of years ago to the OP, as she was making memes of their stories as if they were actually factually factual fact.

She had also posted a few weeks ago an AI formatted search result which was not factual. Somehow by the next day, she somehow managed to find out about her error and posted something regarding that. But she did not retract her demands that myself and two others apologize to her. For telling the truth.

She has also posted fake stories from Facebook, and just the other day, reposted an AI video that she posted last year involving a pickup truck crashing, and blaming that on leftist because something something left this left that and some other thing.

As for humor, you don't even understand why the images I use for memes tend to be smiling, and in a mirthful way. You take everything I say as literal and dry, was not a smitten of snark. Which is good, because as far as I go, snark is against the TOS, and I'm not allowed to use snark. Goodness, you should have seen me before you joined and wasn't censored for anything slightly colorful because I'm not a Trumper.

I already told you, I don't take this stuff so seriously as yous do. I'm not here to plant my grand flag in the name of the glorious culture wars. I'm here to laugh at the utter silliness of it all. That's what the grin in most of my memes signifies. Grins are, by definition, grins, after all. Therefore, grins are grins.

When the Babylon Bee first showed up they fooled a lot of people. They know how the left thinks and so all they had to do was just embellish the facts to be funny. And just like The Onion, many times their parody turned into reality.

I've never understood 1 specific kind of humor. That is the kind of humor where you're the only one laughing. That's why I never cared for Andy Kaufman. I call that kind of humor, selfish humor.

If something's funny it should be shared. It should be something we can all laugh at. And it seems you have trouble with that kind of humor.

You're kind of humor is more pathetic than anything because you're the only one who laughs.

If you want to be funny try to make more people laugh than just yourself. You can do it because some things make you laugh, you just need to see if you can alter that same humor to make other people laugh.

The truly funny people are those who can make a political joke and make both liberals and conservatives laugh. It's always going to be easier to make a conservative laugh because most of us aren't all uptight and full of hatred.

I'm not that talented. If I'm lucky I might make a conservative laugh.

So what I said then?

The OP took the Babylon Bee literally. The Babylon Bee is made to appeal to conservatives. And of course, much of that conservative readership took the Babylon Bee literally, not getting the joke. The case I mentioned was not the only one to not get the satire.

The same as you, you take everything literally. That's why you've taken everything I've said literally. You think images that I've used with women smiling are just women batting their eyelashes smiling seductively. You do not understand that there's a bit of a wry wink in that smile.

Andy Kaufman? What century is this?
Andy Kaufman trolled people, that's what he did.
The only funny thing he ever did, as far as I'm concerned, was that Mighty Mouse record bit.

That and getting himself piledrived three times in a row by Jerry Lawler. But that was unintentional. That was him daring Lawler, and getting exactly what he asked for, which was the last thing Kaufman wanted.

Now that that was brought up, that's what I do. You dare me to do something. You ask me to do something. And I play along. Because I aim to please.

And you fail to understand that it isn't serious. I don't even have to do anything, I just let you say it, and let you do the rest. You're just basically playing yourself. That's the punchline. That's the joke.

All the while you keep repeating that you're just messing with me, when basically I'm just allowing you to mess with yourself.

Because I aim to please.

For as crazy as the left is, the Babylon Bee just sounded plausible. The Onion did the same thing when it showed up in the late 90's. The Onion wasn't right or left and parodied both. I haven't looked at the Onion in years so I don't know if they have remained politically neutral or not.

The Daily Show on Comedy Central was politically neutral for the most part. Then flipped and became exclusively leftist.

Anyway. What you are saying is that you're doing an Andy Kaufman bit on all of us. And I'm saying you shouldn't be so exclusive to just yourself. Maybe you wouldn't get so many down votes form other people.

One of my replies to you somewhere, I put text in that reply that defined what an argument was. That was lifted directly from a Monty Python skit. I was hoping someone who had seen the Argument Clinic skit would have picked up on it.

Sometimes I am serious, in fact most of the time but I'm tired of being serious and would much rather just have a good time. And that pretty much the reason I reply to you so much. Most of the other lefties here I have, for the most part given up on. Sometimes I wonder if they are just you under another name just playing more of your jokes.

Anyway. I apologize if I have offended you in any way. I'll just be more mindful of your style of humor.

The Babylon Bee is The Onion for Conservatives, which means The Onion wasn't really geared for Conservatives as a primary audience because they're not exactly that perceptive when it comes to satire, let alone appreciative. Again, hence why the readership of the Babylon Bee didn't get the joke initially. Till word got around. These people are why sitcoms have laugh tracks.

"le sigh* you keep trying to reconfigure my words to suit your bogus narrative.

What I said was:

"Andy Kaufman trolled people, that's what he did.
The only funny thing he ever did, as far as I'm concerned, was that Mighty Mouse record bit.

That and getting himself piledrived three times in a row by Jerry Lawler. But that was unintentional. That was him daring Lawler, and getting exactly what he asked for, which was the last thing Kaufman wanted.

Now that that was brought up, that's what I do. You dare me to do something. You ask me to do something. And I play along. Because I aim to please."

If Andy Kaufman is daring me to give him a piledriver, and I piledrive him, that wouldn't make me the Andy Kaufman. That would make me the Jerry Lawler - not to insult Jerry Lawler. You're the Andy Kaufman who thinks that you're, as you always say, messing with me.

I'm the Lawler that's giving you what you asked for.

It's been decades, maybe I should give it another look, but I never really liked Monty Python much. A bit too pretentious and smug. That doesn't mean it's not funny, maybe I'm just not getting the humor, but we used to hop around like we were riding an invisible horse when we were in third grade also, and nobody were calling us a geniuses because of it. We were children playing cowboy.

Now I'm sure making a cutout of a Big foot and having it land on a cutout of Queen Elizabeth and making a lame ooh sound is clever, but it's clever for someone in the third grade. Like I said, maybe I should rewatch this stuff now that I'm older. Then again, these are the same people who thought "I Am The walrus, koo koo koochoo" was genius and searched cover looking for an invitation to Paul's secret wedding.

In case anybody is thinking that I can't figure The Beatles out due to my own limitations, these are also the people that think the 'genius' behind the Beatles was Lennon & McCartney, when in fact there were two Beatles. There was the namby pamdy teeny bopper "I want to hold your hand yeah yeah" Lennon & McCartney Beatles, then there's the genius George Harrison Beatles

The Onion always had the word "satire" on their home page. The Babylon Been didn't do that. No one knew it was parody.

Like I said, they sounded just as crazy and bizarre as the crazy and bizarre stuff the left does and so there was no reason to doubt it.

Also like I said, posted a parody article many times we just had to wait a year, 6 month, a month and I think one time they were ahead of the leftist craziness by a week.

I got burned once on FB. I knew the Bee was parody long before I had ever heard of ImgFlip. If I ever posted anything from the Bee (which I don't remember ever doing) it was to be funny.

I can't tell you about anyone who posted Bee articles as serious journalism when the Bee first started because I wasn't here.

""le sigh* you keep trying to reconfigure my words to suit your bogus narrative."

Hmmm.... There's no meme of a smiling girl so apparently you're being serious. Oh well. Don't care.

Are you trying to beat the Andy Kaufman dead horse?

"but I never really liked Monty Python much"

BLASPHEMY!!!!! HERESY!!!!! "I sentence you to be hung by the neck until you cheer up"

"A bit too pretentious and smug."

It's British and everyone thinks the Brits are pretentious and smug because of their accent but you could not be more wrong.

"but we used to hop around like we were riding an invisible horse when we were in third grade also"

I was 17 when I saw the Holy Grail in the theaters. I wasn't hopping around with an imaginary horse. There's more to Monty Python than just their movies. They had a British comedy show that when I first saw it, it was on PBS in America before the move came out.

"Now I'm sure making a cutout of a Big foot and having it land on a cutout of Queen Elizabeth and making a lame ooh sound is clever, but it's clever for someone in the third grade."

All of the animations that was done for Monty Python was done by Terry Gilliam. The same Terry Gilliam that directed the Oscar winning "The Fisher King"

"'I Am The walrus, koo koo koochoo' was genius and searched cover looking for an invitation to Paul's secret wedding."

Being older than you, there is so much about the Beatles at this time that you don't understand. "I am the Walrus" is a parody. It's not about Paul's wedding, it is a parody about a rumor that Paul had been killed. "I am the Walrus" is just one of many clues the Beatles gave in their albums about Paul's death. Paul didn't die, it was all a joke.

The Onion had the word "satire" on it's front page? I don't recall that. Front page. As in physical hard copy newspaper, as I saw it years ago.

You were here when the OP made memes based on the Babylon Bee. I didn't even know it went farther back than a two or three years when those memes are made, I figured it was something new. First glance I knew it was a put-on, no laugh track/satire warning needed. First glance.

Something something leftist that means next come socialist then Marxism and didcha know Karl Marx hated the Blacks so therefore... something something you communists killed 100 million people so I just skip all that all the way to the end.

I Am the Walrus. Paul is dead. Supposedly by covertly subconsciously subliminally announcing that Paul was dead, nobody would know that Paul was getting married. It was supposed to trick the masses into not finding out that Paul was getting married and arriving at his wedding because dead people don't marry. That was the lore. Because naturally that's what people do, play records backwards, hear a skipping sound, figure that means that the guy in the band is dead even as he's on TV promoting the album, and therefore he's not going to get married and does everybody is distributed from crashing said wedding.

Ah, the wonders of LSD.

The Beatles were like Monty Python, everybody thought they would crafty genious because they were British, I mean, because they had British accents. And sang with American accents. A lame limitation of American music. So therefore they were genius. Then they dropped the three chord ditties to make overdubbed orchestral things which naturally they played all the instrumentation themselves because they suddenly became so good they could play everything from oboes and tubas to violins and cellos and you name it, all by themselves. Well John Lennon with some assistance from Paul McCartney, natch.

I didn't like the Beatles till I was well into my twenties, but I still to this day I still see them as way overhyped

Not it was on their home page on the website. I haven't been on that website in several years. They used to have it on the home page when I 1st became aware of them in the late 90's.

No, I was not here when the OP made memes based on Babylon Bee. I hadn't even heard of ImgFlip at that time. I 1st saw the Babylon Bee on Facebook. By the time I found out about ImgFlip, everyone knew that the Bee was satire.

I don't remember when I 1st started on ImgFlip but I know the Bee was around before I started here.

"Something something leftist that means next come socialist then Marxism and didcha know Karl Marx hated the Blacks so therefore... something something you communists killed 100 million people so I just skip all that all the way to the end."

That didn't come the Bee, that's history. Marx did hate blacks. He referred to them with the "N" word. But then Marx hated everyone.

Communists did kill over 100 million of their own people.

That's just historical fact.

The Paul is dead thing was started by a DJ in Detroit.

George Harrison was considered the 6th Python. George Harrison, Pink Floyd and Genesis all contributed money to fund Monty Python and the Holy Grail.