• seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org
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    It makes more sense when you look at the rest of site. It’s a “satire” news site. It’s not a real story.

    I thought “That doesn’t sound like something a real journalist would write”, and sure enough… Scroll down to the bottom, and you find

    KVTA4 is a fabricated satirical newspaper and comedy website. KVTA4 uses invented names in all its stories, except in cases when public figures are being satirized. Any other use of real names is accidental and coincidental.

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      Who would even believe:

      Not to mention the strange erotic sensations they were feeling for the first time as well.

      That’s straight up erotic fan fiction. lol

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      It seemed fake when they said two young men on bicycles. That’s more Morman style. In my experience JWs are an older, very conservative looking lady with a “FML” child in tow carrying copies of The Watchtower.

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        I once had a roommate who was a JW, and after he moved out we kept getting JW missionaries at our door for weeks afterwards. It was just like you described. They take a child with them to deter people from being rude.

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      Am I the only one completely exhausted with “satire” news? We have enough misinformation as it is, and now we know how dangerous it can be. It’s not funny anymore.

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        When it’s done well, it’s great. I love The Onion. The problem is people writing stories that look like real news and then pretending that it’s satire.

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        It’s one thing when the site is obviously satire but they’re clearly trying to appear as a real news site. It’s so unnecessary