DADA!

The Dada News Manifesto Of Dash MacIntyre

Dash MacIntyre
3 min readSep 2, 2024
Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash

I am a card-carrying Dada News journalist inspired by the absurdist Dada art movement during and following WWI.

This is the Dada News manifesto:

Dada News is a harlequinade for eliciting doomscrollers’ involuntary reactions, specifically fury from conservatives who love to dish fake news but can’t take it, and comedic catharsis from liberals who briefly fall for the Dadaist headlines before recognizing that the brazen fictional absurdity of Dada News is ironically nearly imperceptible from the absurdity of reality in contemporary American politics.

Dada News doesn’t report the facts, it improves them.

Dada is an antidote to fascism. When fascists lie to obstruct and confuse the masses’ recognition of reality, Dadaists’ lies are like a double-negative. A lie about a fascist lie is mathematically a truth.

Any expectations of Dada News to be objective will be happily unmet. Dada News doesn’t tell how it is, Dada News tells how it really is.

Dada News is a Leftist vaccine against Rightists’ authoritarian propaganda, and mainstream both-sides-ism in the center.

Dada journalists are repulsed by American conservatism’s tyrannical demand for illiberalism to be taken seriously, so Dada News is…

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Dash MacIntyre
Dash MacIntyre

Written by Dash MacIntyre

Comedian, political satirist, and poet. Created The Halfway Post. Check out my comedy book Satire In The Trump Years, and my poetry book Cabaret No Stare.

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