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What are Onion's ideals?

• coldtea 11y ago
  Well, let's say (hard to put in precise words as not an American), but even if it mocks Democrats almost equally, it's certainly no pro-GOP, and in fact anti-Republican. It also obviously stands against everything Bible-belt -- which pines it against a good 30-50 million Americans who stand for those things (even if they don't live in the Belt). In general, it has the same kind of general progressive ideals you'd expect from such a comedic outlet, and even if it makes heavy fun of american society, it can't escape the american viewpoint on the world (e.g it's P.C. in essence, even while making fun of P.C.-isms, it shares the "success is everything" mindset in mocking the middle and "white trash" class that's prevalent everywhere, seldom questions us views of foreign countries and core foreign policy "facts" -- except for rooting for the doves in the the hawks vs doves internal us discussion, etc.).
• evan_ 11y ago
  The onion doesn't have a strongly-defined partisan political stance, but it overwhelming "punches up" rather than punching down- meaning the butt of the joke is a person or organization with more power than the audience. To me, this point-of-view tends to look more progressive than conservative, but I might be overlaying my own biases.