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I "liked" the above photo on Facebook, not realizing that it would appear in my Timeline, but then I was stunned when a good friend asked me if I hated Obamacare. Someone who has known me for 15 years and knows how enthusiastic I've been about President Obama and the ACA.
In my opinion, the photo is obvious satire but maybe others don't see it that way?
dchill
(38,561 posts)(I get it. But it may be a little "deep" for some - especially on Facebook.)
JVS
(61,935 posts)It kept if from being another myspace. Since they opened it to all, it's gone downhill fast.
JVS
(61,935 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Blockbuster faltered due to changing market demand. They didn't do streaming when everyone else did. THEIR fuckup, not caused by ACA.
Nine
(1,741 posts)Apparently not.
icymist
(15,888 posts)Besides, this why I never go on facebook anymore; that they have a need to tell all my friends, their friends, and so on, that I (((gasp))) clicked 'like' on something! Google+ is getting to be a pain as well!
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)Hell, I have a great nose for satire, and I'm not at all sure that the creator of this graphic doesn't want people to believe it as fact. If I had to bet, I'd probably bet that they DO want people to believe it as fact.
If someone wanted it to be a satirical "thanks Obama" moment, they would have said just that, rather than inserting a "fact" statement.
patricia92243
(12,605 posts)unblock
(52,386 posts)TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)And some people are so lacking in critical thinking skills that it will never occur to them that Netflix, Hulu and Pay-Per-View TV and Amazon have provided stiff competition to BlockBuster.
brush
(53,924 posts)Many right wingers blame everything not to their liking on President Obama and lately, business failings and insurance cancellations on Obamacare. So the satire, if it is meant to be that, can easily escape those predisposed to blame things on Obama/Obamacare.
tiredtoo
(2,949 posts)you can make out the satire but, many will just read the headline and the thanks to OBAMACARE! and believe it.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Even though it makes absolutely no sense.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I mean, only a moron wouldn't understand why Video Stores have disappeared, same as record stores.
But there are a lot of morons out there.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)It's simply inaccurate. Blockbuster has been losing ground and moving towards bankruptcy/shutting down for some years now, long before the ACA.
It's stopped being cute, all these supposedly satirical "Blame Obamacare" things.
surrealAmerican
(11,365 posts)It's a cultural thing.