• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        And it’s bad satire. This wasn’t printed a year ago; they published this knowing exactly how fucked-up life is. It doesn’t work.

        The Onion, of all sites, does not need anyone’s excuses.

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            1 day ago

            You’re all just wrong.

            Satire has to be more absurd than reality - no matter how absurd reality gets. Otherwise it’s just lying. There’s no punch, in the punchline. This headline, god help us all, is plausible.

            This is a rare case of The Onion fumbling as hard as IsGlitch. If you have to see that it’s from a known comedy website, to figure out it’s not real, the headline has failed as comedy.

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              22 hours ago

              You’re gonna hate to find out that “w00t” is in the dictionary, “decimate” has been nerfed by dialectic morphology via anti-literacy engineering, and no one can never go home again.

              Stop shouting like a pedant, and get back in line with the rest of us, cuz’.

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                21 hours ago

                This isn’t a matter of “satire” versus “comedy.” This is about bad comedy. This is… not… funny. People believe it. They had to check that it was not simply true.

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                  19 hours ago

                  By your overly simplistic metric, Idiocracy is no longer satire, Teach’. 🤷🏼‍♂️🤪

                  Take a breath. Count your eyelashes. Whatever. Just, breathe.

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                    19 hours ago

                    Why is “by your logic” never ever followed by someone’s logic?

                    You’re an unpleasant tone-policing troll. You’ve never understood this conversation. Shoo.