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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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Interesting share from the New Yorker.
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Thanks for the post.
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Maj John Bell
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Andy Borowitz is a Times best-selling author and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. He writes The Borowitz Report, a satirical column on the news.

It is one task of the KGB [in 1982] to apply its skills of secrecy and deception to projecting the Soviet party's influence. This it does through contacts with legal Communist Parties abroad, with groups sympathetic to Soviet goals, with do-gooders of the type that Lenin once described as "useful idiots" … .
— The Wall Street Journal
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I put a satire disclaimer in the description of the post. Not keen on satire? Babylon bee?
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Love satire, when it isn't passed off as truth.
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Maj John Bell - Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society. -Robert C. Elliott "The nature of satire"
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