The thing about comedy is there are a lot of people out there who are famous for being “edgy” when really what they do is just reinforce whatever beliefs their audience already has. People love satire when it satirizes someone else, not many people want to see satire that targets themselves.
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For sure, its easier to laugh when its at the expense of others, but very uncomfortable when its suddenly about you or something you’re invested in. South Park has a history of this, most famously with the Scientology episode and Isaac Hayes. Though disclaimer, from a relatively recent statement from Hayes’ son it seems that it was not the voice actor’s doing in the whole kerfuffle of him denouncing the show and leaving as he was recovering from a stroke.
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This is one reason I enjoy South Park. They have no sacred cows. So I can grin through a “They are coming right for us!” bit, and be the butt of some jokes, knowing their satire doesn’t single anyone out.
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This is an interesting video analysis about how Simpsons went from being counter-culture to being pop culture. It’s a half-hour long, but surprisingly well thought-out and scripted, not just someone musing like most long videos on YouTube. They mark the shift as starting around season 8, a few years before you said you lost interest. If nothing else, it reminds me how much genuinely better the show was in the 90’s.
@anon61221983, also tagging you just in case you’re interested since you can bring a more critical eye to the video than I can.
Totally understand if neither you can or want to spend 30 minutes watching it though. 
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I am so getting my ass kicked for this, but…
(India has been dealing with this sort of thing for years.)
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Is the game set in a specific region?
I find that many people incorrectly universalize color/racial/ethnic biases based upon what part of the world they personally happen to live in or be familiar with. Of course people in your area might be biased towards a particular skin tone - but be aware that those in another area might be biased towards another.
it’s set in south park, Colorado, a town with ample parking day or night.
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Here’s a traditional Colorado swatch to meditate upon.
Thanks! This looks interesting. I’ll have to watch it later.
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Honestly not sure since I haven’t watched in some time, but have they ever gone after libertarians?
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Like what? “Oh no, they libertarians want to come and have us live our lives with out other people telling us what to do!”
“Those monsters!”
But in all seriousness, yes the show does have a libertarian slant. Small “l” not “L”. Which I realize covers a variety of stances. In the political tests I take that is where I generally place, and I used to not get some of the back lash against them, but then I learned there are hard cores ones who think taxation is theft. Of course one can have many of the ideals and still want a working government.
But anyway, to answer your question, eh - I can’t remember a specific spoof of organized libertarians, though I think they have poked fun at some of the things they would support. I think they focus more on the left/right political spectrum, as that what gets the most bang for your satire buck vs smaller orgs.
That said, I don’t think it is a sacred cow. If there was a joke to be made at their expense, it would be made. Maybe libertarians just aren’t that funny. If one doesn’t like South Park because they don’t skewer them enough, I’d have to ask one where on the doll the libertarians hurt you 
Disagree that there isn’t plenty of humor potential in mocking idealistic self righteous libertarians.
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LOL. I dunno, send in a fan letter suggesting such. Actually Cartman going to Somalia to “do what I want” would probably make a good episode.
As far as I can tell from a google search, South Park has yet to skewer the Bundy occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, which is inexplicable, especially with all the care packages that people sent in “support.” So many opportunities for juvenile humor. That episode HAS to exist! Maybe I just haven’t found it yet.
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Actually that might make for a good episode too—casting “the invisible hand of the market” as a creepy sexual predator.
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there was this also:
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Oh no, the libertarians want to come and have us live our lives under terms and conditions designed by corporations that owe no allegiance but to shareholder value.
If a town makes a regulation that I don’t like, I can speak up at council meetings, vote officials out of office, etc.
If a corporation acts in a manner equally detrimental to my interests, what recourse do I have?
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I’m not sure if/how that was a reply to me.
The frivolity of “wanting” aside, this generalization applies to corporate capitalists generally. People have been reminded in many topics here that those generalizations do not apply to socialist libertarians or other non-capitalist/corporatist types.
The same that anybody has in an egalitarian society - dealing with them as an equal.
Charles Koch has a net worth of 52 billion dollars. Financially, I’m not an equal. Financially, I’m as a gnat is to an elephant.
The Libertarian program involves neutering the institutions which are (at least theoretically) obliged to treat individuals in an egalitarian manner, and replacing them with institutions which respect the non-egalitarian distribution of property.
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Then why measure your or their worth in dollars? Using the state as a pimp to help one fare better in a rigged game is still a rigged game. People need to be more careful and deliberate about how they measure wealth, resources, status, incentive in the first place - or any organizational changes made will be entirely superficial.
In some ideal world, petitioning some powerful monolithic agency to check some powerful monolithic person so that the average person can be recognized as having any value might sound likely to succeed, but I suspect that it has been a “protection racket” which is not designed to ever achieve anything egalitarian. YMMV. It sounds good, provided that one is very trusting of those who claim to have lots of weirdly rationalized advantages over you.
Not that any of this directly relates to skin color or the South Park game!
