• 100_percent_a_bot@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    People downvoting this thread because they’re not getting that this is satire by the onion makes this post infinitely funnier. Well played OP

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      9 months ago

      I don’t get it… Is the joke just that conservative cartoons label everything and use straw-man stereotypes?

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          9 months ago

          I suppose it’s probably funnier if you actually encounter these irrationally conservative people in real life - though I suppose I prefer the situation where I don’t 😅

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              9 months ago

              Nice try, I’m not eating the onion this time.

              (Seriously though, the satire isn’t actually worse than this. Which makes sense, because… What the actual fuck. But yeah.)

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        9 months ago

        The Onion is a parody of normal newspapers; since normal newspaper political comics follow satire, The Onion goes double up to satirize their satire.

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      I was not sure what I was reading (not having a lot of references for actual American conservative cartoons probably explains that a bit) but crying liberty was too much even for gullible me.