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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kind of, but it only works when the audience knows that you are being sarcastic either by knowing you or some kind of context for them to know.

If your audience doesn't know you then it helps to be as absurd as possible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol. The last part is the most important one. Thats a major point of being sarcastic. You need to be as absurd and ridiculous as possible

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You need it to be sufficiently absurd to reject itself as what you’d be saying.

It reinforces the shared context between people too.