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[-] 100_percent_a_bot@lemmy.world 43 points 4 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

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 26 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 21 points 4 months ago
[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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 ๐Ÿ˜…

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 11 points 4 months ago
[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That looks dope. I want to go on the pronoun train!

[-] Vincent@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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, that does make it unclear that it's satire and what point it's trying to make.)

[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Yes. There's a whole series of these comics.

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 9 points 4 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.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

Lots of people gonna have bad breath from eating the Onion lol

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 5 points 4 months ago

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.

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