4.3 trillion readers can’t be wrong — why The Onion’s defense of satire should be heard by SCOTUS https://l.smartnews.com/X6yKV/MsXtHm

This is because satire is “parasitic” – a satirist appropriates formal features of an existing genre, person or event to create a pretense of authenticity and sincerity. By pretending to be something it is not – such as a news story or a police Facebook page – a satirical work arouses expectations and stereotypes associated with that genre.

This a nice read…satires, I use it all the time in my works even in song lyrics… Can’t stop…must follow the story…I used it this morning twice, one from their bathrobe eating episode and the other one alongside the word “parasitic”, here:

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Conveniently enabled, a dimwit never qualifying for what it claims to be, a parasite can not be anything but a parasite. Never knows anything but always talks shit, it is a profession ignoramus , narcissistic and evil without a thought to the person preyed upon…

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Reflective clueless people who like to fantasize about vanishing to unintelligent people have been the one eating the bathrobes all along. They sure like to eat those as the oceans love eating plastics…

but I must say, to me, it isn’t parasitic as it couldn’t be parasitic symbiotic (can’t benefit both parties), or non-symbiotic(can’t benefit one side) because it is meant to expose such things as a “ruse”. I will like to redefine it within the literary world where it belongs. It is a representation of a set of conditions, a representing replica, an ironic, comedic, maybe paradoxic intuitive metaphoric replica of a situation.

SATIRE CAN BE, IF NOT THE MOST MILD MANNERED LITERARY TOOL…IT CANNOT AFFORD TO BE KILLED…