• 100_percent_a_bot@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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

    • Vincent@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

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

      • Katana314@lemmy.world
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        1 year 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 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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              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, that does make it unclear that it’s satire and what point it’s trying to make.)

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      requires knowing (and caring) about the artist and knowing they work for The Onion and knowing they do spoofs – I think this is only the third time I’ve seen anything of theirs and I’m far more likely to invoke Poe’s law than to spend any time questioning the lack of humor …

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        Knowing that the artist does satire is not a prerequisite for recognizing that this is satire. It’s very obvious. And also hilarious.

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          Unfortunately, a lot of “obvious satire” turns out to be serious. This is a bit more obvious than most, but it can be hard to tell, these days.

    • Flax@feddit.ukOP
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      1 year ago

      Oops. Maybe I should have made that quite clear that it’s satirising the American right 🤣

  • Krauerking@lemy.lol
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    1 year ago

    Wait… But how could Homer be a crude stereotype of a white male?

    … He’s bright yellow!

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    1 year ago

    I’ll admit, I ate the Onion.

    Moving this out of the contrext of the onion pushes it from “haha, WTF?” to just “WTF?”.

  • GustavoM@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “To stop racism, you must stop playing the victim.”

    -- A “woman of color” that belongs to a “minority group”.