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Anonymous
2017-09-09 03:27:03 Post No.1564994
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>Irony and cynicism were just what the U.S. hypocrisy of the fifties and sixties called for. That’s what made the early postmodernists great artists. The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates. The virtuous always triumph? Ward Cleaver is the prototypical fifties father? "Sure." Sarcasm, parody, absurdism and irony are great ways to strip off stuff’s mask and show the unpleasant reality behind it. The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do? Irony’s useful for debunking illusions, but most of the illusion-debunking in the U.S. has now been done and redone. Once everybody knows that equality of opportunity is bunk and Mike Brady’s bunk and Just Say No is bunk, now what do we do? All we seem to want to do is keep ridiculing the stuff. Postmodern irony and cynicism’s become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what’s wrong, because they’ll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony’s gone from liberating to enslaving. There’s some great essay somewhere that has a line about irony being the song of the prisoner who’s come to love his cage.
- David Foster Wallace

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Anonymous
2017-09-09 03:25:04 Post No.1564991
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Anonymous 2017-09-09 03:25:04 Post No. 1564991 [Report] [View this topic]

Your soap dropped nigga

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Anonymous 2017-09-09 03:43:54 Post No.1565012
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Why did my soap have nigga in the first place?

Anonymous 2017-09-09 04:16:36 Post No.1565060
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I want to unironically drop the soap

Anonymous 2017-09-09 04:17:27 Post No.1565064
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Reminder to clean behind your ears.

Anonymous
2017-09-09 02:52:37 Post No.1564946
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Anonymous 2017-09-09 02:52:37 Post No. 1564946 [Report] [View this topic]

>nice porn thumbnail
>tags: amputee

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Anonymous 2017-09-09 02:53:43 Post No.1564951
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Who are you quoting?

Anonymous 2017-09-09 02:56:42 Post No.1564955
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Anonymous 2017-09-09 02:56:42 Post No.1564955 [Report]

>cute girl
>tags: trap

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this

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2017-09-09 02:36:15 Post No.1564928
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Anonymous 2017-09-09 02:36:15 Post No. 1564928 [Report] [View this topic]

I miss visible Sage.

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Anonymous 2017-09-09 03:29:45 Post No.1564999
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Anonymous 2017-09-09 03:29:45 Post No.1564999 [Report]

I just saged this thread.

Anonymous 2017-09-09 03:33:21 Post No.1565004
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>>1564999
Counter sage

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2017-09-09 02:06:35 Post No.1564907
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Anonymous 2017-09-09 02:06:35 Post No. 1564907 [Report] [View this topic]

/qa/ - anime/random

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Anonymous 2017-09-09 02:14:16 Post No.1564911
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>>1564907
Dumb weeb poster.

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/qa/ queers arguing

Anonymous 2017-09-09 02:19:59 Post No.1564918
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Cancer

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2017-09-09 12:02:07 Post No.1564830
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Anonymous 2017-09-09 12:02:07 Post No. 1564830 [Report] [View this topic]

>/qa/

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Anonymous 2017-09-09 06:47:03 Post No.1565411
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Me on the left.

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Need a nico gf.........

Anonymous 2017-09-09 07:32:54 Post No.1565770
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Literally me.

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2017-09-09 11:26:53 Post No.1564812
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Anonymous 2017-09-09 11:26:53 Post No. 1564812 [Report] [View this topic]

cant we all just get along

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Anonymous 2017-09-09 12:07:57 Post No.1564833
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Anonymous 2017-09-09 12:07:57 Post No.1564833 [Report]

>>1564812
The moment you take every redditor you invited over to this site to make your little political statement and shove them back into their cesspool and/or made original content in /r9k/ I'll forgive you.

Anonymous 2017-09-09 04:16:41 Post No.1565062
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