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		mwexler on March 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Meta-Marketing of ‘The Lego Movie’ Is it really that humour defuses anger in these cases, or is it perhaps that the humour is a way to highlight an issue to people who normally wouldn't care? Perhaps it says that something is now "so bad that it's funny"... and that now it's time to fix it before it becomes "so bad that it's just plain sad".

samstave on March 5, 2014 [–]

I'd agree with you if I actually saw anything being fixed.

Find me one banker or one politician who has been held accountable for anything of sizable matter.

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