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How do you know someone went to Harvard? They tell you... FYI, The Onion is from Madison WI, not Cambridge...
FYI, Harvard Square is a public place, thousands of people visit and pass through it every day who aren't Harvard students. It's not part of the actual Harvard campus (as opposed to e.g. Harvard Yard).
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At the risk of engaging in what I'm sure will be a very even-headed and reasonable dialogue, I can think of a handful of things that the moderate American left would do / agree on that the more extreme elements would not. And just because you have to bend over backwards to avoid getting shadowbanned or flagged for even mentioning any of these, I'm not telling anyone where I stand on any of these things. Some I agree…
As a person firmly in the American political left, I have to disagree with all but one of those (point 6 holds true). 1. If you don’t want Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza to stop, you are not a leftist. 2. If you don’t want trans children to get correct healthcare, you are not a leftist. 3. If you want to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people, you are not a leftist. 4. If you don’t want to fix the gender wage gap, y…
You have literally zero legitimacy or authority to define what leftism is, it doesn't belong to you.
Here's Jeff Lawson answering why he bought The Onion https://twitter.com/jeffiel/status/1783674204820262958
> Over time, we’ll be introducing new products and getting into new mediums. But more than anything – this is about unleashing the creative team that’s been making you laugh for over 30 years.
There's absolutely nothing on The Onion that requires a non-text medium.
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Do you realize The Onion is a satirical comedy newspaper?
Sorry what? As a Canuck, US politics is typically indecipherable, eh! Most news makes no sense, until I found The Onion. Now you are telling me, you bunch of hosers made it all up! Signed "Bob Jenkins, Canadian Minister of National Affairs" "You made it all up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”, Charlton Heston, a Great Canadian
I'll note that most of the comments refer to a different era of The Onion, known as the "Funny" era. The more recent years have been referred to as the "Meh" era, reflecting the repetitive humor, recycling of jokes, and general lack of energy. Every once in a while, I check back to see if The Onion got funny again. Still hoping. Maybe this purchase will be the catalyst, the peeling every onion needs over time.
it's definitely been in its 'clapter' era, where there joke is: you should find this funny because you agree with this viewpoint. Every joke about jk rowling barely qualifies as a joke but they go viral for the sake of insulting her. It's best when it's subversize and zagged somewhat unpredictably.
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I don’t think any of the articles that grandparent linked are really the most exemplary Onion articles. The onion is really at its best when it manages to nail it exactly right. Sometimes they are just so perfectly in touch with cultural zeitgeist it’s uncanny. Here are two of the most memorable ones in recent memory: https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na... https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-s…
Funny, to me these are the worst type of Onion articles, pandering to people on one side of a political issue. I think it's lazy and predictable.
If you want balance, feel free to post equally funny satire with a right-wing slant.
Though it might be harder to find anything equivalent, since biting political humor and satire can be politically asymmetric.
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As a person firmly in the American political left, I have to disagree with all but one of those (point 6 holds true). 1. If you don’t want Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza to stop, you are not a leftist. 2. If you don’t want trans children to get correct healthcare, you are not a leftist. 3. If you want to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people, you are not a leftist. 4. If you don’t want to fix the gender wage gap, y…
The beautiful thing about about groups and diversity is you don't get to decide who is and isn't a leftist. Many would say the same about you given how polarizing your being. You have literally zero legitimacy or authority to define what leftism is, it doesn't belong to you.
Me as a leftist does not want to be politically aligned with anti-LGBTQ+, anti-feminists, and racists. These aren’t a moderate versions of my and my comrade political beliefs (except the 6th one), they are counter to them. So, as a radical leftist, I do disavow these claims, and don’t want them anywhere near me on the political spectrum.
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I used to love it. But in recent years, they only ever seem to make fun of Republican and rarely Democrats. I'd prefer to see them shit on everyone, because they all deserve it.
In recent years one of the two parties was taken over by a reality show host blowhard with no impulse control or self awareness. It would be weird if the media didn't capitalize on that with extra attention. The worst idea of our time is that there's some sort of law or balance in the universe preventing one party from ever deserving more criticism than the other because there's at all times some sort of magical fixe…
Hopefully we will see more periodicals, social media, and comics taking on the far left - between the doddering old man, his dippy VP, and all the weird identity politics theyve mustered up, the jokes write themselves. The Onion cant be any worse.
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I don’t think any of the articles that grandparent linked are really the most exemplary Onion articles. The onion is really at its best when it manages to nail it exactly right. Sometimes they are just so perfectly in touch with cultural zeitgeist it’s uncanny. Here are two of the most memorable ones in recent memory: https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na... https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-s…
> ‘The Onion’ Stands With Israel Because It Seems Like You Get In Less Trouble For That This is a recent Onion classic. The thing about the Onion is, once you’ve got a great headline - and maybe a photo, which will usually be a head shot - the text of the article sometimes seems largely superfluous. They actually ought to be doing better in the age of Twitter and so on, but it didn’t work out that way.
https://www.theonion.com/israel-assures-it-doing-everything-...
"Israel Assures It Doing Everything Possible To Minimize Civilians"