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Back in the day, if I read “Sitting president calls for a coup d’état after hearing he lost the election” we could laugh and go “oh, you silly satirical newspaper, such a thing would never happen, this was an amusing diversion from the mundane!”
Now we go “Oh my god, turn on basically any news channel, there’s people trying to murder congress and hang the vice president and nobody is trying to stop them” and continue on FOR FOUR GODDAMN YEARS LIKE NOTHING FUCKING HAPPENED
Thought this was a real headline
At first I thought someone had posted this to the wrong community.
Never understood the onion news. Its like its normalized misinfo
We used to be able to enjoy and laugh at satire because politicians had enough sanity that we could easily tell it apart.
Back in the day, if I read “Sitting president calls for a coup d’état after hearing he lost the election” we could laugh and go “oh, you silly satirical newspaper, such a thing would never happen, this was an amusing diversion from the mundane!”
Now we go “Oh my god, turn on basically any news channel, there’s people trying to murder congress and hang the vice president and nobody is trying to stop them” and continue on FOR FOUR GODDAMN YEARS LIKE NOTHING FUCKING HAPPENED