Look, I get it. The gargantuan shit-show that is U.S. politics and the American descent into fascism is on everyone’s minds. It’s certainly on mine.
But the point of this community is to highlight weird news stories that make you go, “By golly, I thought I was reading a headline from The Onion. You know, America’s finest news source.” A lot of stories being posted lately don’t even remotely fit that.
That doesn’t mean political stories aren’t allowed here, but they must have headlines that would make people pause and wonder if it’s a story from The Onion. Straight up regular, non Onion-y headlines don’t fit.
It’s not even valuable politics posts.
Every other one is an annoying ‘look at the stupid thing Trump said, did or wore’.Funny, and I just noticed in my YouTube feed: “Satire Isn’t Dead, It’s Ineffective”
I wonder why.
I blame ‘/s’
Thanks, the current government did some weird stuff that might have been an onion-like piece in another administration, and I have upvoted quite some of those surprising events in the beginning, but most recent posts are just ‘something that happened in America that doesn’t usually happen in a functional democracy’ and I think it has become too much to be honest.
Fair point. These three aren’t great.
Since when was “fighter jet falls off aircraft carrier” satirical? This stuff does happen occasionally. It’s just an accident.
Most stuff on here belongs on aboringdystopia
The Alex Jones one is definitely something you could see in the onion.
The Alex Jones one actually gave me a good “That’s pretty Onion-y” hit.
I have to say, there have been a few political stories where I’ve genuinely wondered.
But you’re right, it’s mostly whingeing.
To be fair some of said stories genuinely could have been onion articles… In what sane world would we deport a 4 year old resident with cancer? How is that an actual headline? The times this year I’ve had to double check is astonishing.
Geez you’re not kidding. All the recent posts are politics with regular sounding headlines. I’m gonna start downvoting headlines that don’t fit.
They can also just be removed, surely
Yes, but if you report them, I find them faster.
