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Do you remember when the Onion was funny?
« on: October 11, 2023, 10:20:25 AM »
I do, but it was a long, long time ago.

These two headlines are all they had to say about the Palestinian orgy of rape, murder, and baby decapitation.  No suprise, given what they have become.  I'm not giving these aholes a link.


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Netanyahu: ‘I Don’t Know About You, But The Timing Of This Tragic Attack On Israelis Could Not Have Come At A Better Time For Me’
JERUSALEM—Noting that he had been feeling pretty down lately and this was just the pick-me-up he needed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters Tuesday that he didn’t know about them, but the tragic attack that killed Israelis couldn’t…

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‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths
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Re: Do you remember when the Onion was funny?
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2023, 11:25:00 AM »
Yep, it's been a long, long time since anything even remotely good came out of the Onion.
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Re: Do you remember when the Onion was funny?
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2023, 12:24:09 PM »
The Google Opt Out village was the last thing I remember that really made me laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMChO0qNbkY


Looks like that was 2009.
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Re: Do you remember when the Onion was funny?
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2023, 12:53:22 PM »
I remember Herbert Kornfeld, the Stone-Cold Hardcore Accounts Receivables Mack Daddy of Midstate Office Supply giving me a giggle in 1999, the first time I read about his day to day struggles managing temporary workers.
It's been going downhill ever since.
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Re: Do you remember when the Onion was funny?
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2023, 12:57:52 PM »
I stop paying any attention to The Onion a long time ago.
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Re: Do you remember when the Onion was funny?
« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2023, 05:33:58 PM »
The Onion used to be a bit like the Babylon Bee is today . . . the operative words are used to be.

It seems to have followed the same path as Saturday Night Live and the late-night talk shows in that humor was written out in favor of leftist politics.
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Re: Do you remember when the Onion was funny?
« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2023, 06:02:02 PM »
Quote from: HankB on October 13, 2023, 05:33:58 PM
The Onion used to be a bit like the Babylon Bee is today . . . the operative words are used to be.

It seems to have followed the same path as Saturday Night Live and the late-night talk shows in that humor was written out in favor of leftist politics.

Like SNL, they are still funny on occasion, almost by accident.  I take a look maybe once every week or two and sometimes find something amusing.  The brief they filed to the Supreme Court a few months ago was a masterpiece.  (afterwards, Babylon Bee wrote one too in a similar style but it was not as good, plus it was kind of a copy)
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Re: Do you remember when the Onion was funny?
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2023, 10:16:35 AM »
"All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing"

If you start to accommodate the left you stop being funny. Accommodating the left requires you to no longer notice or point out reality.

Frequently, comedy is noticing and pointing out things.

Cleverly pointing out incoherence with reality is funny.
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