• Aa!
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        243 months ago

        It’s a reference from The Simpsons. Sarcasm is a good explanation, though it’s probably more accurately satire

        • @[email protected]
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          23 months ago

          I’d call it irony. Satire is usually a more pointed critique- it would be referencing a specific situation or trope or person it wanted to lambast. So maybe a bit of satire about the US prison system? Honestly I don’t think they were trying to go there though.

          • @[email protected]
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            13 months ago

            The word irony has too much confusion attached to it nowadays, in part thanks to Alanis Morissette. I would say it was meant tongue in cheek.

      • @[email protected]
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        -33 months ago

        for the longest time I thought that line had way more to it, but nope, that’s it. it’s just a reference to Hitler.

        I only thought there was more to it because classic Simpsons always had fantastic writing with multiple underlying references.

        • Queen HawlSera
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          3 months ago

          Sometimes a pie in the face gag is just a pie in the face gag.

          But yeah, the joke is that people in charge of the prison system are so clueless on the nature of evil that they cannot differentiate between good and bad behavior.