Jeff Lawson buys The Onion • Hacker News Board

Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Post by concordDance » Fri, Apr 26, 2024, 7:04 AM UTC

dev_by_day wrote: post #178

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I think the downvotes are because we don't really want the culture war on hackernews. It tends to not be a very productive topic and makes people emotional, making discussion quality even worse than most other politics (like economic policy, regulations or international relations).

Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Post by concordDance » Fri, Apr 26, 2024, 7:06 AM UTC

dev_by_day wrote: post #183

hnlmorg wrote: post #180

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I really get sick and tired of this ongoing pseudo-religious war between the left and the right. Can’t you express your opinion in a way that isn’t antagonistic?

Ben collins is a promoter of this left right war, he was literally suspended for being biased. That is not a good reporter, he is a beneficiary of the culture war and its disrespectful to actual factual journalism to call him anything else but a political stereographer who is out to push ideology above facts.

Worth noting that this reply has a lot of the same content as your first one but isn't flagged. This is mostly due to it being phrased in a far less inflammatory manner I think.

Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Post by scoot » Fri, Apr 26, 2024, 7:08 AM UTC

lubujackson wrote: post #57

I'm old enough to remember when it was a physical paper you'd get for free in Harvard Square... wish I kept some of them. I particularly enjoyed the old "Point/Counterpoints" such as: https://www.theonion.com/u-s-out-of-my-uterus-vs-we-must-dep... https://www.theonion.com/americas-homeless-want-a-hand-up-no... https://www.theonion.com/my-computer-totally-hates-me-vs-god... Also, shout out to the "Oh! Mumford" comic s…

Ignoring for the moment that "unsurface" isn't even a word, I think you mean the opposite, "surface" (as a slightly pretentious way of saying "discover").

Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Post by toyg » Fri, Apr 26, 2024, 7:11 AM UTC

saalweachter wrote: post #85

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I learned about it via "Monk Gloats over Yoga Championship" https://www.theonion.com/monk-gloats-over-yoga-championship-... I also frequently mention I don't watch television. In fact, I don't even own one. https://www.theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-d...

For me, it was "Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over": https://www.theonion.com/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of...

The article is funny and I agree with overall sentiment, but it's always surprising how people just forget Kosovo and Somalia. Clinton bombed a European country and doubled down on a hopeless mission in an African hellhole (before giving up), not exactly "sustained peace abroad". Even if you agree with the moves, you can't say it was all peace and love.

Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Post by tommica » Fri, Apr 26, 2024, 7:14 AM UTC

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You do have a valid point in what you are trying to say (that Collins got suspended for his strong bias), but the way you communicate it is really doing harm to your message - you are antagonizing too much.

Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Post by tommica » Fri, Apr 26, 2024, 7:18 AM UTC

Oh, we are sharing our favorite onion bits? I love these ones:

"How To Channel Your Road Rage Into Cold, Calculating Road Revenge" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuKnR8RvxHY

"Prison Economy Spirals As Price Of Pack Of Cigarettes Surpasses Two Hand Jobs" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2IYIJc1f00

"FDA Official: "Just Eat A Goddamn Vegetable" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOyebcrVWb4

"DEA Official Announces Successful Drug Bust On Son's Room" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2uqJ4xTx8k

Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Post by jl6 » Fri, Apr 26, 2024, 7:30 AM UTC

toyg wrote: post #204

saalweachter wrote: post #85

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For me, it was "Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over": https://www.theonion.com/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of...

The article is funny and I agree with overall sentiment, but it's always surprising how people just forget Kosovo and Somalia. Clinton bombed a European country and doubled down on a hopeless mission in an African hellhole (before giving up), not exactly "sustained peace abroad". Even if you agree with the moves, you can't say it was all peace and love.

True, but those were tiny interventions that hardly affected mainstream USA at all, unlike the brutalizing experience of 9/11, Iraq, and Afghanistan in the following decade.

Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Post by bitsinthesky » Fri, Apr 26, 2024, 7:35 AM UTC

pabs3 wrote: post #102

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I have a stack about a foot tall of copies i collected from the Obama era. Anyone idea what i should do with them? Perhaps donate them to the library as a public good? They are still hilarious. My favorite is one where they pretended a Chinese ceo of a fish company bought the paper. It was filled with articles with bad statistics trying to get the common American to eat more fish, how wonderful the ccp is, and how we…

Yeah, or send them to archive.org for scanning and publishing on the web.

Nice. Okay, I’ll give it a shot :)

Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Post by imron » Fri, Apr 26, 2024, 7:42 AM UTC

Scarblac wrote: post #190

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My favorite Point/Counterpoint is https://www.theonion.com/according-to-the-economist-nasa-is-... "According To The Economist, NASA Is An Industrial Subsidy In Disguise vs. Oooh, Look At Me, I Read The Economist!" I also have to give a shout out to the time they predicted the five blade razor a year before it came out: https://www.theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-bla...

As a nice crossover, the Economist predicted the number of blades to go to infinity in this beautiful graph: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2006/03/16/... .

And then there's this from 1992 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YleuLyCUx28

Re: Jeff Lawson buys The Onion

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Post by alexey-salmin » Fri, Apr 26, 2024, 7:43 AM UTC

tommica wrote: post #206

Oh, we are sharing our favorite onion bits? I love these ones: "How To Channel Your Road Rage Into Cold, Calculating Road Revenge" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuKnR8RvxHY "Prison Economy Spirals As Price Of Pack Of Cigarettes Surpasses Two Hand Jobs" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2IYIJc1f00 "FDA Official: "Just Eat A Goddamn Vegetable" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOyebcrVWb4 "DEA Official Announces Success…

"How To Play Golf Against The Man Whose Wife You're Banging On The Side" https://youtube.com/watch?v=PyV-oTTyIWg

"Parenting Expert Has Nerve To Tell You How To Raise Your Own Goddamn Kids" https://youtube.com/watch?v=hKmDGWv9gRk

"Brain-Dead Teen, Only Capable Of Rolling Eyes And Texting, To Be Euthanized" https://youtube.com/watch?v=MGXSPf9b-xI