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Is my hard-hitting satire that impenetrable?

As you know, there's generally a problem with irony that the audience either have to be in on the joke or be given some indication what is meant, and there's always a risk in saying something that prima facie is just wrong. Especially on t'Internet—if you say it to someone in person, you can always pull a face or something, and there will be a shared context, and you need to think of other ways on-line, e.g. I didn't think your smileys did do the job in this instance.