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[–] [email protected] 93 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

I don't envy the Onion writers in this day and age.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 43 minutes ago

they can't make things up that's more ridiculous than what's going on so the only thing they have left is just funny framing. this headline is literally true, it's just the wording that gives away that it's not from another news source

[–] [email protected] 42 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It must be extremely difficult to be more absurd than the actual news.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

They should just report completely boring news as if Kamala Harris had won.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago

Start up a mirror site, literally name it noinO ehT, for news from an alternate universe. Have each site refer to the other as surrealist satire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

"Corporations Run Everything"

Works in either timeline!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

But they'd have to invent stories!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Several satirists, including Stephen Colbert, and John Stewart, and John Oliver have all commented that they are very tired of hearing the whole “the Republicans are in power, so your job must be much easier!”

They are all, quite vociferously, against this. Each one of them has individually, and commonly, claimed that, “no, it doesn’t make it easier at all. The jokes may be funnier, but we all still have to live through this shit.” they are insist that they hate this as much as everyone else does. They’re just trying to make the best of it.

They are people too.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

My argument was actually that it's probably harder for satirists to come up with more ludicrous ideas and statements than actual people say in this day and age, not easier.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

They're hiring editors just to pare the number of stories to a manageable level.