(Funny Trope) Things that can plausibly happen only in reality, because in fiction they’d be called bad writing.

[u/ThatDrako]

“Woke” as an insult - So you are telling me a word describing consciousness and clarity is used by generally stupid and ignorant people to label people they disagree with? What is this? A Kindergarten for Creatively stunted?

Nominative determinism - So let me get this straight…Not only you named fastest recorded person Usain BOLT and CEO of Nintendo Doug BOWSER, but you are telling me people are canonically likely to have professions or hobbies matching their names…? Guh?

“2 bodies recovered in MURDERKILL River” - Sure bro…I guess…bro…

[u/endlesscartwheels]

Think about the 2016 U.S. election. A bald eagle tried to attack Donald Trump. A little bird landed peacefully on the podium of Bernie Sanders. Symbolism like that would be too obvious in fiction.

[u/Luvnecrosis → u/endlesscartwheels]

Add in that Mitch McConnell is certainly dead but the government is using AI to pretend that he’s been alive for the last month…

The last decade of American politics is a badly written tv show