God I love the onion
Right. This was so much better than I thought it was gonna be. Not just a cheap laugh.
Crikey… did you see this one?
Blacker rhan the void humor.
OMG, the signatures at the end. Lol!
What’s the story with the signatures? Feel like I’m OOTL on that.
Great piece though.
I think they signed with wrong names to not get attacked. I can only read Ted Kaczynski.
There’s the Unibomber for one.
One is Hockey Hall of Famer Joe Sakic (#19)
Satire is one of the few things in this world that really cuts straight into the absurdity of humanity. I wish the solutions were as easy as pointing out what a clown car this planet is.
Small detail some might miss, one of the editorial board signatures is Ted Kaczynski.
Brilliant paragraph:
“What of the tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians killed before this attack?” some may ask. Our response is simply that we aren’t going to engage with that because it would be too hard. We also won’t be addressing Palestinians living in refugee camps without access to clean water, electricity, or housing. Others may ask, “Isn’t it your responsibility to provide context, particularly on thorny issues such as this one?” To that, we merely say: No, shut up. You’re being annoying.
This is not a real news article but we’ll allow it in this instance because it sheds light on very real issues.
Please refrain from posting non news articles next time.
Okay 👍
I got permanently banned from /r/worldnews because criticizing Israel is “misinformation”
Well, what the fuck were you doing at reddit in the first place?!
I’ve completely replaced reddit with Lemmy on my phone, I still sometimes check some bigger subreddits when on my pc. Or subs like HFY that has no equivilant.
Hfy?
And I know what you’re saying. I was being facetious. I sometimes check reddit at work too.
HFY (humanity, fuck yeah) was a sub for short stories about humans being cooler than aliens. Not in a self congratulatory way, but like how humans could feasibly have good or useful traits that alien species might not. Such as creativity or physical prowess due to being top of the food chain in a competitive ecosystem.
There’s a Lemmy alternative but not a lot of traction.
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Lol! I got banned off r/worldnews for that exact same thing three days ago. Got permabanned off reddit this morning.
The rivets are coming off their old propaganda machine in regards to Israel, and they are desperate to plug all the holes.
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It sucks that we are not allowed to call bad ideas, bad ideas. Especially when it comes to Israel. Criticism is always antisemitism. I’m sorry I don’t believe any country should be able to start an ethnostate and drive millions of people out of an area they have lived for what? Thousands of years? What does Israel think is going to happen? They are teaching a whole new generation to hate them. (as if they already diddnt) This will just cause more terrorist cells to pop up and work to kill more innocent people.
All in the name of some sky daddy. The only reason the US supports Israel is because some 2000 year old work of fiction wrote some doomsday prophecy.
Honestly the popular support from the people who can’t point to Israel on a map is religious.
The governmental support definitely is not based on religion. The US makes semiconductor tech there and Israel is one giant front-line fortress for us. Israel is the Middle Eastern outpost analog to all of the East Asian allies who are littered with US military bases.
My parents and my entire family only support Israel because the Bible says “If Israel falls the world ends”. It’s all the religious right cares about which is a very large part of the US. All of these are just my opinion and i love constuctive conversation. It’s really a massive mix of things and just for me to minimize it to religion isnt exactly right.
The onion nails it again.
I’m glad at least Krystal and Kyle are trying to throw some water of sanity on the raging wildfires of bad takes out there.
So are Cenk and Ana at TYT. Please give them a listen. 6pm EST / 3PM PST daily on YouTube for the main show.
Thank you. Glad you mentioned them. I should have also said Kyle Kulinski and Krystal Ball (Secular Talk, Breaking Points) and not assumed everyone knew who I was talking about.
Ok I was ready to be disappointed but this is lengendary
It seems everyone did the same for the same reason.
Everyone is “standing” with them because they have power unlike Palestine who have none.Finally, and more importantly, it’s because we don’t want to and you can’t make us. You can’t. You seriously can’t. You cannot make us do all of this hard stuff. Ever. Seriously.
Remember Charlie?
The unicorn?
Charlieeee
Candy Mountain, Charlie!
He bit me! Ow Char-lie!
Idek if this is a real article or an actual announcement because both would be equally fair.
That’s what makes it good satire.
Finally some good sense on this contentious issue x
“What of the tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians killed before this attack?” some may ask. Our response is simply that we aren’t going to engage with that because it would be too hard. We also won’t be addressing Palestinians living in refugee camps without access to clean water, electricity, or housing. Others may ask, “Isn’t it your responsibility to provide context, particularly on thorny issues such as this one?” To that, we merely say: No, shut up. You’re being annoying.
Damn these guys are good. Managing to satirize the media, take a hands-off approach, and still raise valid points all in a couple paragraphs.
Perhaps some evidence there still is some life in the onion, even if its been sitting in the pantry a little too long and starting to look a little sketchy.
The Onion has been killing it recently. They must have gotten new writers cuz they seemed to fall away for awhile. They’re definitely back on top now though.
Trump admin was a little too insane to satirize effectively, I think. They try to stay playful while biting, with only the occasional blunt headline.
Basically, Trump only deserved single-entendre, and that’s not really what they do.
