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In case you didn't know, The Onion is back in print: https://membership.theonion.com/ https://membership.theonion.com/

DaoVeles 2y ago
I am so glad to see things like this happening again. Im not saying "bring back all the magazines!" But some of them had a real place in the format. The one thing I loved about the old tech mags was because of the longer cadence they could really focus on long form and more indepth articles than what we usually get. Shout out to Atomic magazine in Australia during the early 2000s. Absolute peak of this stuff.
- ghaff 2y ago
  So much has shifted to "what is being announced *right now?" Who care what was new and notable last month? I get that the cadence is different but it's much more about hot takes than reflection.
scottyah 2y ago
It seems to me that the Onion had a schism and split into the Babylon Bee and this new, very political version. I ended up unfollowing them on Instagram when it was (in my opinion) just thinly-veiled hate-based politics. Did anyone experience something similar in the last year or so, or am I the one changing?
- ttmb 2y ago
  I had never heard of the Babylon Bee and I just took a look at it. Are you saying you think The Onion is the very political one, or did I misread your sentence?
  - scottyah 2y ago
    I think the Onion has become very political over the last year or so. When I started following the Babylon Bee, they were already very political to me.
    - SL61 2y ago
      The Onion has always been very political with a liberal slant. I have some of their print collections from the early 2000s and they're similar to today's Onion with maybe a little more edge. Their gun control headline "'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'No_Way_to_Prevent_This%2C'_Says_Only_Nation_Where_This_Regularly_Happens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'No_Way_to_Prevent_This%2C'_Sa...) dates to 2014.
      - criddell 2y ago
        Since wanting to end school shootings is not a left or right issue, how would a conservative publication satirize the issue?
        jdougan 2y ago
        At a guess, by pointing out the "Gun-Free Zone" signs. Edit: No longer a guess, https://babylonbee.com/news/chicago-schools-gun-free-zone-sign-riddled-with-bulletholes https://babylonbee.com/news/chicago-schools-gun-free-zone-si...

I am so glad to see things like this happening again. Im not saying "bring back all the magazines!" But some of them had a real place in the format. The one thing I loved about the old tech mags was because of the longer cadence they could really focus on long form and more indepth articles than what we usually get. Shout out to Atomic magazine in Australia during the early 2000s. Absolute peak of this stuff.

ghaff 2y ago
So much has shifted to "what is being announced *right now?" Who care what was new and notable last month? I get that the cadence is different but it's much more about hot takes than reflection.

scottyah 2y ago

It seems to me that the Onion had a schism and split into the Babylon Bee and this new, very political version. I ended up unfollowing them on Instagram when it was (in my opinion) just thinly-veiled hate-based politics. Did anyone experience something similar in the last year or so, or am I the one changing?

ttmb 2y ago
I had never heard of the Babylon Bee and I just took a look at it. Are you saying you think The Onion is the very political one, or did I misread your sentence?
- scottyah 2y ago
  I think the Onion has become very political over the last year or so. When I started following the Babylon Bee, they were already very political to me.
  - SL61 2y ago
    The Onion has always been very political with a liberal slant. I have some of their print collections from the early 2000s and they're similar to today's Onion with maybe a little more edge. Their gun control headline "'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'No_Way_to_Prevent_This%2C'_Says_Only_Nation_Where_This_Regularly_Happens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'No_Way_to_Prevent_This%2C'_Sa...) dates to 2014.
    - criddell 2y ago
      Since wanting to end school shootings is not a left or right issue, how would a conservative publication satirize the issue?
      - jdougan 2y ago
        At a guess, by pointing out the "Gun-Free Zone" signs. Edit: No longer a guess, https://babylonbee.com/news/chicago-schools-gun-free-zone-sign-riddled-with-bulletholes https://babylonbee.com/news/chicago-schools-gun-free-zone-si...