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I wish The Onion were still funny; can't really recall visiting them in the past 3 years because of some funny video they were famous for.

• snackbugs 8y ago
  We're living in a period where real events are as absurd and as brain-breakingly bizarre as satire. It makes satire less of a release of tension and more of a depressing reminder. Satire doesn't make you laugh when you can barely write an Onion headline that isn't only slightly expanded from reality.
  • lb1lf 8y ago
    -Brilliant 60’s satiricist Tom Lehrer famously declared political satire dead when Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
    • gadders 8y ago
      I wonder what he thought of Obama getting his.