• DandomRude@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    If this is the case, I apologize profoundly for my earlier comment. I’m from Europe and have the impression that even the most absurd things are quite possible in the USA.

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      11 months ago

      They completely are (the absurd things, that is. It sucks here, sometimes).

      Mad/Cracked/Crazy/Sick/Trash are all similar publications that took extreme satirical takes like this throughout the 60s-90s, though they were all dead by the time the mid 2000s came around, with the exception of Mad, which would cease monthly publication not long after.

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        11 months ago

        I can vaguely remember Mad Magazine. We had that too, but I’m not sure what content it actually covered. My much older cousins subscribed to it at the time, but I can only dimly remember spy-vs-spy comic strips.

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          My parents bought me Mad every once in a while because they remembered it from their own childhood/youth lol

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      11 months ago

      Honestly, Chick Tracts aren’t terribly far off from this. They’re insane fearmongering nonsense