Today, energy experts no longer scoff.

Is it satire, or just bad taste?

Global Voices collected some of the snarkiest and most popular tweets.

The message is quite simple..Abuse the maid and you risk her abusing the child Satire or not, most found the cartoon to be in poor taste.

It reads 'Construction, my dear prohpet', satirising the thirst for construction of Turkey's religiously inclined AKP (Justice) party.

This video drew much ridicule from netizens, as you will see in the comments below.

The irony is that some of the materials are sometimes produced by defence witnesses in the Milosevic case.

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And that's the greatest irony of all when it comes to the Norden bombsight.

You ll probably find out after it s happened, he taunted.

By killing three Israeli civilians, these acts of murder represent an ironic tragedy.

It is time now for the cats to stop suffering the ridicule of the mice.

The irony of all ironies, though, is that, in the Banda administration, Zambian President Sata s Malawian lawyer, Ralph Kasambara, is now Malawi s Justice Minister.

Again with the example of the far right that we find, ironically, are utilizing the benefits of globalization.

Pro Palestine activists have begun 're naming' Israel as the Jewish State of Israel in the Levant, or JSIL, in an obvious satirical allusion to the neighboring self proclaimed ISIS, a splinter group of Al Qaeda that has brutally taken over swathes of Syria and Iraq, mowing residents and particularly minorities in its path.

He received lots of comments later from people who didn't accept what they see as mockery of the Islamic religion.

But you ridiculed them . So much so that out of ( spite ) for them you forgot to remember Me and laughed at them .

So you took them for a mockery until your mocking at them made you forget My remembrance , and you used to laugh at them !

But you took them for a laughing stock , till they made you forget My remembrance , mocking at them .

Then ye took them mockingly , so that they caused you to forget remembrance of Me , and at them ye were wont to laugh .

But you took them for a laughingstock , so much so that they made you forget My Remembrance while you used to laugh at them !

But you made then a target of ridicule , until they made you forget My remembrance and you used to laugh at them .

you made a laughingstock of them and your hostility to them caused you to forget Me , and you simply kept laughing .

But ye chose them for a laughing stock until they caused you to forget remembrance of Me , while ye laughed at them .

But you took them by ridicule until they made you forget My remembrance , and you used to laugh at them .

But you took them for laughingstock , mocking at them , until they caused you to forget My remembrance .

But you took them in mockery to the point that they made you forget My remembrance , and you used to laugh at them .

You mocked and laughed at them until you forgot all about Me .

But you took them for a mockery until they made you forget My remembrance and you used to laugh at them .

But you made a laughing stock of them to the point where it made you forget My remembrance and you went on laughing at them .

But ye treated them with ridicule , so much so that ( ridicule of ) them made you forget My Message while ye were laughing at them !

When I look back now, it s kind of ironic that Arab American publications didn t give us any press when we first started.

It is often half jokingly pointed out that the number of generals and admirals in some European countries (none mentioned, none forgotten) is glaringly disproportionate to the number of fighting troops.

Unsurprisingly, the European Parliament s handling of Mersch s appointment was widely ridiculed, and his nomination was eventually confirmed.

But do you see any irony in the fact that, in order for you to shine that light, you have to, yourself, create secrecy around your sources?

Ironically however, as he was dying, world leaders and the media were rediscovering the importance of Arafat s leadership if not his persona.

For keeping Ukraine afloat over the past 15 months, Tymoshenko deserves the West s thanks, not the cynicism that we are currently seeing.

The irony is that, as more members of both the public and the media praise the ability of bloggers to inform, the more these de facto journalists around the globe become victims in fact.

This provoked taunting from our African descended friends on multiple occasions, and made us feel, at other times, excluded from an ethnicity that was often associated with the ability to speak the language.

I think there's a really deep irony to the fact that actions women are taking and I see this all the time with the objective of staying in the workforce actually lead to their eventually leaving.

Flynn s offer to list Muslim leaders was undermined by the fact that his top example had been dead for 30 years https t.co 8thyQRxdbQ Christina Wilkie ( christinawilkie) July 15, 2016

In fact, the Central Propaganda Department s ideological control can be maintained only through internal notices and telephone calls, which are widely scorned.

In recent decades, some of the most dangerous work has been shipped overseas (ironically, much of it to China).

Both of these news items reflect the full magnitude of the cynical and shameless conduct of the United States Government and the false and hypocritical nature of its so called anti terrorist crusade.

Totalitarianism began its conceptual life in 1923 as a criticism or parody by the liberal writer Giovanni Amendola of the megalomaniacal pretensions of Benito Mussolini s new regime.