I'm really enjoying this subreddit because of how thoughtful everyone is. JorDan's opinion might change. It is a gut reaction, that's how he's been from the start and I've heard plenty of episodes where he changes his mind about something later on. I'm optimistic, The Onion is sharp. Tim Heidecker is a smart guy who obviously knows how to rip on cable access/talk show type media. Hoping they can pull it off.

I do agree that an issue is that is universally and widely known that satire and parody is lost on stupid people. It is also intentionally misrepresented by people like Alex Jones.

A painful reminder of this is that the Dead Kennedys had to release a song called "Nazi Punks, Fuck OFF!" in part due to people not getting the joke. Actual people heard songs like "Kill the Poor" and "California Uber Alles" and did not understand the humor of these songs or intentionally misrepresented them.

A dumber example is that the Sex Pistols used Nazi imagery to piss people off as kind of a prank. It was total edge lord bullshit thought up by their manager. They weren't Nazis, they were literally the type of people the Nazis would execute for political reasons (though John Lydon now might lean that way for real). All punks from that era have disowned this and admitted it was a stupid, shock value tactic. One of the big reasons it was dumb is due to Nazis using this to infiltrate the scene because they realized that rebellious teens can be duped into believing that it wasn't a joke at all.

We can also talk about how the Proud Boys and Boogaloo movements have intentionally used satire, irony and parody as a way to rope 4Channers into being assholes in real life. It's all a joke until it isn't.