r/politics • u/slaysia • Dec 19 '17

Democrat wins Va. House seat in recount by single vote; creating 50-50 tie in legislature

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/democrat-wins-va-house-seat-in-recount-by-single-vote-creating-50-50-tie-in-legislature/2017/12/19/3ff227ae-e43e-11e7-ab50-621fe0588340_story.html?utm_term=.82f2b85b50fa
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '17

The narrative is always "South Park doesn't take sides, they make fun of everyone". Has South Park ever mocked libertarians?

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u/GregBahm Dec 20 '17

Very early in the history of South Park, Trey and Matt thought it would be a good idea to play a prank on their own audience by doing the Terrance and Phillip episode instead of revealing who Cartman's mom was.

Their audience didn't take the joke well. Trey and Matt said in multiple interviews that they learned their lesson from this: that it's okay to make fun of everyone except their own audience, because their audience couldn't handle being made fun of. The World of Warcraft episode, ten years later, was the first episode where they risked making fun of their audience again, and they are on record saying they thought it was going to be a disaster.

Even though it wasn't, I think they still know there's a thinned skinned region of their audience that they dare not offend, which is why they took the actual Donald Trump out of their 2016 election episodes and replaced him with a sympathetic Mr. Garrison against an unsympathetic Hillary Clinton.

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u/YNot1989 Dec 20 '17

This show isn’t racist/homophobic/transphobic/antisemetic/ableist! It makes fun of everyone! Except libertarian white men.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '17

just say libertarians, because they make fun of white men more than anyone

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u/anon_xNx4Lfpy Dec 20 '17

Found the far leftist!

Easy to spot when they project their vile sexism and racism onto everything...

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '17

Not really the same I guess, but they did at least talk shit about Atlas Shrugged.