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gaykwon.bsky.social • 511 days ago

The death of satire

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down10.bsky.social•511 days ago

You know what they say about the first casualty of war.

hensleyc.com•511 days ago

I feel like one of these days the onion will do a real report that we take as satire but it’s an actual article but just super far fetched

covingtonedu.bsky.social•511 days ago

I could totally be wrong, but have we seen this sheer amount of breathless "stop hitting yourself"-style victim blaming in recent memory? Remarkably frightening how it's become a mainstream justification of atrocity-by-any-other-name.

christian.kuendig.info•511 days ago

https://www.theonion.com/dying-gazans-criticized-for-not-using-last-words-to-con-1850925657

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-israel-palestinian-hamas-war-1.6996889

I had to look it up to believe it.

bruxerizmo.bsky.social•511 days ago

It's so weird people being genocided no matter what find no use appeasing their oppressors

amazonpissjugs.bsky.social•511 days ago

We've really gone in through the out door

n0nmanifest.bsky.social•511 days ago

A CBC radio announcer once apologized for using the word "Palestine" while interviewing a Palestinian author who had written a book about Palestine

illumi.meme•511 days ago

Hell the onion has just been a news source for at least seven years now

hammancheez.bsky.social•511 days ago

I need them to get on the story about US citz evacs from Israel on a cruise ship while US citz in Gaza are getting droned

socialismforall.bsky.social•511 days ago

Reminder to all that 50% of Gaza's population are children

coreyyotto.bsky.social•511 days ago

You either die, or continue to see Onion headlines come true

linernotesdanny.bsky.social•511 days ago

Gaza stubbornly rejecting Israeli pleas to "say Uncle," "stop hitting yourself"

pileofgarbage.net•511 days ago

rip satire, killed by reality: a bigger joke than any of us could have even imagined.

pileofgarbage.net•511 days ago

apparently Armando Iannucci stopped doing "The Thick of It" because UK politics became more wild and obscene than anything he could imagine.

gaykwon.bsky.social•511 days ago

I feel like 'Yes, Minister' also wouldn't hit today like it did

pileofgarbage.net•511 days ago

"Yes, Minister" still hits because it covered a unique and hidden area of British politics: ministerial civil service. Also Armando's point wasn't that art imitating life makes it less funny, more that it's less fun to write art when everything is derivative of life!

stev.bsky.social•511 days ago

jfc

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