Pretty sure Planned Parenthood has nothing to do with HRT prescriptions. You’d need a psychiatric doctor to prescribe something like that, and he’d probably insist on a pretty thorough examination. And since doctors don’t generally like giving out prescriptions needlessly, he’d probably want to hear about some symptoms of illness first.

Preference alone would be insufficient, just like going to your doctor and insisting you want your stomach stapled for weight loss would be insufficient to get the surgery. He will most likely make you try other, less permanent things first.

To an extent, sure. That’s more about keeping a community alive through a dry spell, though.

Digital communities can easily take years to build, that’s not unusual at all. There’s always lulls in that early period where the community is mostly dead, but there’ll usually be 1-2 people just kinda keeping it on life support. Bones of the Moon has been doing that with our poetry sub for instance, if not for them, that sub would have died-died quite awhile ago. But since they (still, even) post there periodically, it winds up popping up on people’s new or local feeds every once in awhile and reminding everyone it exists, and once in awhile someone else posts there.

That’s the main reason I think people do it. Just kinda getting the community past that early period where most communities die out if left unassisted.

Eh, I disagree. It’s not enough on its own by any stretch, but it remains a very useful part of a multi-pronged approach. I’ll also point out that I addressed how almost all satires fail to have any impact on his supporters. Have you seen any Cunk though? It’s a distinct style.

It’s not about him or thinking he’s smart. It’s about why they like him and how they perceive the actual issues of the day. When Carrell or Morgan poke fun at something, they usually do it by taking it to other (quasi)logical conclusions that are so (overly) simple a young child can follow their logic. They only reason they can get away with this is because they’re clearly being Monty Python levels of serious. This lets them get away with seriously and enthusiastically espousing bad ideas in a way that makes them look even stupider than they are, in a way the rest of us can’t manage. They can parody what we cannot. Not effectively anyway.

While true, I’ll also say that Cunk has a style and power that is something special. It takes talent to play that character, not everyone can convincingly play the bumbling idiot that effectively. There’s a special something that the Diane Morgans and Steve Carells of the world have that even a Stephen Colbert can’t pull off because he still comes off as a fancy and smarter-than-you east coast elite to a flyover country person.

I’d argue an attack from Cunk, if seen by his supporters, would be more effective than an attack from almost any other source, because only she (and some Steve Carrell characters) are stupid enough to actually make them see how stupid it all is.

You need to be that level of dumb to parody him (edit: or more accurately, MAGA as a whole) to his own supporters though, even the likes of The Onion is usually too intellectually complex. Otherwise it doesn’t work, too much of it goes over their heads. And lets be real, these are some of the stupidest characters we have ever conceived of. Lenny from Of Mice and Men had significant intellectual strengths over the likes of Philomena Cunk and Michael Scott. They need that stupidity to deal with Trump on the level.