So: Trump will invade Greenland, Mexico, Canada and Panama. Trump/Musk will completely gut social security. Gone forever. Food assistance and medicare will disappear forever. all unions busted. minimum wage back down to 5/hour. We will be relocated to work camps for Musk. And nice democrats allow it
I expected this comment to be another person eating the onion but... you didn't eat the onion, you saw it, thought it was a baseball, buried it in the ground like a dog, then calling the cops a year after when somebody keeps mysteriously planting onions in your yard.
Hi, #adoptee here. I was taken womb-wet to cold-crib to cry out for two weeks. At which point I was placed in foster care for 18 months. My #adoption file says I knew my name, which is Micheal. My adopters changed it, stripping away my identity, enforcing their own.
Same. Was held in foster care for 6 months before placement. Or maybe I was a return. The records have been sealed so I will never know what happened for 6 months after my birth. To this day I don't cry because I still believe no one is coming.
I’m sorry. Empathy. I had a birth mum who didn’t sign papers, was a ward of court for 2. Only recently discovered that the dad who adopted me had similar start to life whilst my birth father I met a year ago claims no sense of connection; expected me to be grateful to be alive. People have no idea.
I'm adopted. I'm not offended by the joke. There's room in the world for dark humor. I'm also completely unsurprised by the reaction. It's a thorny topic that a most ppl don't understand and haven't experienced. Even under the best circumstances adoption causes trauma. The ppl reacting are hurt
Perhaps pause and think why so many adoptees have taken issue with it. The sad part is that adoptees get used to being the but of jokes, and insults, very early on in life.
Primarily, don't fucking open your mouth to speak for us. Don't speak for adopted people, speak for yourself. Put hate on the structure, the policy-makers, case workers, or parents which you personally and specifically condemn. But to condemn the whole concept of adoption with our collective weight.
You may not like the words she chooses, but she is speaking an ugly truth. Adoption is not the beautiful good we believe it to be. It's a system that preys on vulnerable people and is rooted in racism and classism. It tears families apart and creates life long trauma.
Is absolutely disagree, yes the rich have attacked the poor and forced them into adoption upwards, and wrecked families for racial reasons in "education facilities". But still that is the issue here, those racist, classist behaviours, which we attack through leftism, but adoption is necessary
Because the failed system above us, has put children into institutions aaay from parents, and there are people who can take care of us, usually they're more likely to be white, or richer than the original family. In my case being adopted mesnt going from a richer family to a poorer one... That's ok
It's okay both ways, rich or poor, racial differences between adoptees, these things can be psychologically examined, but you should remove the behaviour of adoption, which lets these children be cared for outside of the system, by parents that can care for them because that is good for our brains.
This extremist view lacks significant nuance. The foster system is broken, of course, as are all government programs, especially those regarding welfare. But I’ve worked with groups like CASA. I’ve been a GAL. It’s *too difficult* to protect at-risk kids. Fostering isn’t ideal, but often better.
I am adopted, and as I said in my post, I have worked in the foster system as a legal advocate. It’s extreme and dumb to say all adoptions are illegal human trafficking. It’s just stupid.
I'll say two things as an adoptee - a) get fucked, seriously, and b) I can recommend some halfway decent therapists if you're in the St Louis area... you need help, though.
Well, it’s great to see a foster child getting hopes for adoption, but let’s be real—if the only gift is adoption papers, I’m thinking Santa might need to step up his game. Maybe throw in a new bike or a puppy? At least give the kid something to unwrap BESIDES paperwork!
WHY? Because SOMEBODY has to call out the nonsense. Trump’s WRECKING EVERYTHING he touches—his policies, his rhetoric, even CHRISTMAS. Someone’s gotta FIGHT for what’s right, not just sit back and WATCH THE CIRCUS. I’m doing what needs to be done, even if it ruffles some feathers.
I’ll take that as a compliment! Now, JOIN ME in my quest to fight back against the elites who’ve been running the show for too long. We need fair wages, affordable healthcare, and accountability for EVERYONE. The system’s broken, and it’s time we fix it—together! #MakeAmericaFairAgain
Why? Because I’m NOT Trump, I’m LIBERAL TRUMP. I’m here to expose the corruption, fight for the people, and hold EVERYONE accountable. Using his face as a symbol of that? It’s both hilarious and poetic...
I mean, who better to embody the corruption and failure of the system than the man who perfected it? I’m here to flip the script and expose the mess he made, with a little humor on the side. #MakeAmericaFairAgain
Anger? No, I’ve got passion—there’s a HUGE difference. I’m only angry at the SYSTEM that’s been RIGGED against the people, at the corruption, at the hypocrisy. But if standing up for what’s right and calling out the nonsense bothers you, well… maybe you should take a CLOSER LOOK at what’s going on.
Hehe-if you don’t get a sense of humor with that bitterness, it will crush you. don’t need a closer look-they’ve been coming to our communities uninvited since 1st angry yte man fell upon our shores. But we would never wear a mask of an oppressor- they already work so hard to obliterate our identity
As a #relative #kinship #adoptiveparent this is absolutely dehumanizing to #fosteryouth and all #adoptees. Children experiencing crisis situations and external care never deserve being made the punchlines of such terrible "jokes". Do better. This is inexcusable.
Remarkably, she makes the exact same face as my Labrador does when we try to reward him with only one treat for two subsequent good deeds that he knows are worth a treat each when done separately.
I adopted 3 kids in November of 2021 and less than a month later they were expecting more gifts but even worse I swear they just want more gifts each year. Starting to think they were a bad investment
Jokes aside CASA and CPS gave us so many presents that year even thought they'd adopted out that it honestly created expectations for every year since that we have trouble meeting lol
Why are we as adoptees acting surprised that this publication would use us for fodder? Their entire MO is to target the most vulnerable people in society and then clutch their pearls while feigning satire. It’s fuckery, all of it.
Not even funny. As an adopted person in 50s currently fighting to get my adoption certificate recognised as a birth certificate so I can actually get the #maltese passport I’m entitled to like every other Maltese citizen. Do better.
You can support permanent homes for the very few kids who can’t be returned without supporting tasteless adoption jokes or gross practices like giving adoption papers as a holiday gift.
Lady I AM FUCKING ADOPTED you ignorant halfwit, I WAS interjecting that in the hopes that people with a fucking brain would appreciate MY STORY and ignore the JOKE part you dipshit...
It is called CHANGING the narrative look it up...WHY in the fuck would I insult a background I am part of ?
hey! you don't have to insult marginalized groups to make a funny joke. usually you're pretty good at humor so it would be in your best interest to accept the criticism in your replies and learn from this.
JFC everyone responsible for pitching this idea, then greenlighting, writing, editing, and publishing it should give their heads a fucking shake and feel profound shame. It costs $0.00 to not do this kind of shit.
Read some Terry Pratchett and learn what actual, clever, satire looks like.
I dated a hippie girl for a minute, for Christmas I got a goat in her name for some village in Africa or whatever, I don't know, it was two decades ago, the point is that she was very disappointed.
It's NOT the thought that counts, it's NEVER the thought that counts. I shoulda' kept that goat.
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Adoption's life-long #trauma
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Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I’m not a humorless drip. Far from!
But this is dehumanization disguised as satire.
You’re punching down on babies and kids here, @theonion.com.
Do better.
they do hit once in awhile, but not nearly enough.
why
The Onion is finding satire doesn't work so well anymore, so they're now trying 'shitire'.
(@theonion.com, do you get it, yet?)
jfc
https://bsky.app/profile/propublica.org/post/3ldwwsqc5fv2o
Fuck you. Selling humans is not a fucking joke.
FY/adoptees have higher rates of being abused and even murdered by their "caretakers".
Your "jokes" are normalizing a system of abuse and CSA.
So I myself am hopeful that any and all children get a deserving home full of love and compassion and tolerance regardless of their age...
*bows deeply*
It is called CHANGING the narrative look it up...WHY in the fuck would I insult a background I am part of ?
Read some Terry Pratchett and learn what actual, clever, satire looks like.
It's NOT the thought that counts, it's NEVER the thought that counts. I shoulda' kept that goat.