People who've only seen the headline should really read the copy. Arguably the most concise and prophetic anti-war op-ed from that era. And we're doing it all over again. theonion.com/this-war-wil... - ThreadSky

bencollins.bsky.social • 1 day ago

People who've only seen the headline should really read the copy. Arguably the most concise and prophetic anti-war op-ed from that era. And we're doing it all over again.

https://theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mideast-region-and-1819594296/

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mikegianella.bsky.social•1 day ago

The counterpoint was an excellent summation of the stupidity we were (and are) up against

silkscreenfiend.bsky.social•1 day ago

The mediocre fathead of the oughts has curdled into the lunatic extremist of today; it's not a coincidence that the picture they chose looks a lot like Mike Lee.

douhan.bsky.social•1 day ago

The counterpoint is what I remember from when it first ran; the point was so clear, it made denouncing it all the more absurd.

realphilgold.bsky.social•1 day ago

Universal healthcare < eternal war

douhan.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean if poor people need it, some rich asshole won’t want them to have it. And there’s a party full of those assholes.

alexis.bzky.team•1 day ago

two, actually.

acababacus.bsky.social•1 day ago

There are more of us than them if people would only lift their heads to see the real boots above them rather than fighting laterally against other poors.

realphilgold.bsky.social•1 day ago

America is a nation of future millionaires

amosnic.bsky.social•1 day ago

📌

rowyourbot.bsky.social•1 day ago

Except it didn’t happen QUITE like that. Close enough, though.

lady-annabelle.bsky.social•1 day ago

For what little it's worth, if Israel gets their way there won't be very many orphans to some day seek vengeance, because they'll also be dead.

That being said, this could also be the war that breaks Israeli dominance in the Middle East, so who the fuck knows who's the most screwed this time.

popezebbidiexii.bsky.social•1 day ago

There's millions of Palestinians outside Israel watching their relatives getting slaughtered while the West kills anybody trying to stop it.

backtobasics25.bsky.social•1 day ago

Exactly. We just keep creating the next generation of extremists. Over and over and over.

judahfromtexas.bsky.social•1 day ago

Damn. Applies strongly to Israel/Hamas as well

aubade.itch.io•1 day ago

The Onion's writers are really something special

mamacancancan.bsky.social•1 day ago

Omg this is so good

carmensomething.bsky.social•1 day ago

It really fucks me up that a 20 year old “journos say the darnedest things” bit now reads like serious partisan messaging.

tumescentnumpty.bsky.social•1 day ago

"Yup!!"

- Raytheon

vlime286.bsky.social•1 day ago

As the Hippo would say

This is how you get Hamas 2

ganzarsko.bsky.social•1 day ago

Seriously the most important IP you bought in the whole damn deal

madmike2024.bsky.social•1 day ago

I hate to be the what about guy, but Russia gas dropped thousands of Iranian bombs on Ukraine

popezebbidiexii.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's like there's very little difference between Russia and the US except the Russians are attacking white people.

skateintraffic.bsky.social•1 day ago

And similarly whenever that war ends we'll be dealing with a lot of hatred and extralegal violence in the aftermath.

docdiamondfire.bsky.social•1 day ago

I remember when it was first published, reading it from an Onion out of one of the boxes around NYC.

Definitely still exactly right.

nmcarlito.bsky.social•1 day ago

soft power we had that worked vs now the world hates us

justdrewit.bsky.social•1 day ago

Is this Time magazine? 👀 lmao The Onion is now doing better journalism then 99% of the msm 😂

stevepuma.bsky.social•1 day ago

America's Finest News Source

mbhare.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think about this piece all the time. Wish it wasn't so endlessly relevant.

drewhamm5.bsky.social•1 day ago

No we aren’t

bartdogfuck.bsky.social•1 day ago

staffanjj.bsky.social•1 day ago

Speaking of y'all being prophetic: https://theonion.com/after-obama-victory-shrieking-white-hot-sphere-of-pure-1819595330/

shainverow.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nah, it was an orange one.

hivegeistus.bsky.social•1 day ago

That Onion op-ed wasn’t satire—it was prophecy.

“A million bin Ladens will bloom.”
And here we are again—scripting rage, seeding vengeance, calling it strategy.

This isn’t just ignorance.
It’s The Rapture Machine at work:
turning grief into fuel, war into worship, apocalypse into policy.

maiadror.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nah, just give them someone else to victimize, as the west did for the jews after the Holocaust, and all will be fine and dandy

metraeccentric.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm not sure if this counts as prophecy since it's a copy-paste of the RNC platform, but it changed the way I thought about media at a formative age.

https://theonion.com/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-prosperi-1819565882/

kaphka.bsky.social•1 day ago

I often think about this one, which made the same point more succinctly. https://theonion.com/new-bomb-capable-of-creating-1-500-new-terrorists-in-si-1819587307/

silkscreenfiend.bsky.social•1 day ago

This was the one that got me too.

partickle.bsky.social•1 day ago

👀

rebeccahamlet.bsky.social•1 day ago

Been thinking a lot recently about how young the USA is, & how little time 250 years is to learn from history. Not saying anyone else has learnt much either, but they don't seem to get the long game, nor how deep and long the wounds of history scar.

mirasair.bsky.social•1 day ago

You'd think we could learn from the British, but its not like they've learned shit either.

rebeccahamlet.bsky.social•1 day ago

Totally agree. In nearly 1000 years now, not that much has changed. Wasn't pointing a finger out of any sense of superiority; was clear no-one else had learnt much either.

mirasair.bsky.social•1 day ago

I know. Honestly I think we learned a lot from the British, it's just that the lessons were things like "be objectively terrible but have a great PR game"

shainverow.bsky.social•1 day ago

Brutal…

whitly12.bsky.social•1 day ago

True as this may be, you'll forgive me if I'm antsy about any future takes from The Onion on The Middle East when they have/had someone on their payroll who gaslit the two people who were murdered in Washington DC by an Antisemitic asshole.

I don't know he's still employed, but...

whitly12.bsky.social•1 day ago

And by the way, I say this as someone who's Jewish and has had to deal with the world not taking the rise in Antisemitic incident seriously. The Onion owes us an apology.

uncleicon.bsky.social•1 day ago

I am antsy about takes from someone wearing what is clearly a tanuki suit but claiming to be a raccoon.

whitly12.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's a reference to something from over a decade ago.

a-beagle.bsky.social•1 day ago

I spent my college years writing for and then running a tiny satire paper at my school. This exact piece was one that that I constantly came back to when trying to nail down the tone I wanted to approach complicated topics with. Just an all-time great.

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