a lot of these read like setups to jokes without punchlines
This one especially feels like it was written as satire:
When Americans choose to be homeless, it's not banishment but self - liberation, a sublimation of freedom. Those who don't live in such a lifestyle can hardly understand their yearning for freedom...
CIA getting their propaganda from r/thathappened
And then everyone clapped
the first one would be believable if it ended with the guy touching the door of the police car then getting shot 15 times in the back
If that actually happened to me I'd be terrified. Like, you want me to take your keys and get in the driver's seat of a police car? Hey, while I'm at it, do you happen to have an unloaded gun I could hold and get my fingerprints all over?
I'll just walk across the desert thanks.
Everyone went to the supermarket with cash and exact change
The only believable part of any of those is John Kerry eating a bun off of a floor
In my mind Kerry and the dog fought over the fallen bun
The only thing that sounds remotely close to reality is
After entering college, children can apply for a credit card, which is the first step in learning financial management. They need to pay bills on time. If they fail to do so, their personal credit record will be stained, and they will encounter a lot of troubles in the future.
Where the only thing that really needs to get struck is the bit about how getting a credit card teaches you about financial management
I like to imagine there's a Chinese double-agent "working for the CIA" and being paid to write these, with their minders signing off on each story nodding thoughtfully and thinking "Yes, this will appeal to our strange Daoist enemies."
a lot of these read like setups to jokes without punchlines
This one especially feels like it was written as satire: