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The Onion's humor is like that drawing of the angry crying guy wearing a laughing face mask. It's only "funny" if you're pissed off about something.
by traderj0e 6mo ago
The Onion's humor is like that drawing of the angry crying guy wearing a laughing face mask. It's only "funny" if you're pissed off about something.
- snowwrestler 6mo agoWho isn’t pissed off about something in 2026?
- traderj0e 6mo agoYeah people are, and they do make fun of some things I'm pissed off about too, but that doesn't make it funny. It's an "only-if" relationship.
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- traderj0e 6mo agoWhat joke is on me? Some people are downvoting/flagging me, maybe the joke is on them.
- DonHopkins 6mo ago[flagged]
- traderj0e 6mo agoDamn that's crazy
- DonHopkins 6mo agoThe fact that you're incapable of grasping the humor is so sad, and it says much more about you than The Onion.
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- traderj0e 6mo agoYeah, it says I'm not some cranky old guy
- DonHopkins 6mo agoRight, that's not all your are: you're a humorless cranky old guy.
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- shagie 6mo ago> Idk what the Sandy Hook shooting has to do with this, the Onion has been around for much longer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_Says_Only_Nation_Where_This_Regularly_Happens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_... > 'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens They've reprinted / reposted that article 39 times since 2014 (Sandy Hook was in 2012) Gun violence is something that the editorial board of The Onion feels strongly about.
- traderj0e 6mo agoOk so they feel strongly about gun violence, where's the humorous part here? It's a pretty funny headline being used the first time, maybe they were better in 2014.
- shagie 6mo agoSatire doesn't always have to be "ha ha" funny. They've got plenty of that material. As mass shootings became more and more common as a news satire site they felt that they couldn't continue to keep their heads in the sand and needed to write something about it. They couldn't continue to not write something about the news, and yet they felt they had to write something. Jimmy Kimmel is often Ha Ha funny... and yet https://youtu.be/ruYeBXudsds https://youtu.be/ruYeBXudsds https://youtu.be/sB0wWEFIr50 https://youtu.be/sB0wWEFIr50 https://youtu.be/Z0vLiQLpsc8 https://youtu.be/Z0vLiQLpsc8 When you make jokes about the news, sometimes you have to write about the not ha ha funny, but rather the tragic news instead. This is how The Onion has addressed it. https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-onion-became-one-of-th https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-onion-became-one-of-th... ( https://archive.is/hEJhg https://archive.is/hEJhg ) > And as mass shootings increasingly became a tragic and appalling feature of the Obama era, it also became a subject that The Onion could not avoid covering all too routinely. “As more and more shootings happened, it became something that—as an organization that comments on the news—we couldn’t not write stories about…and it kept on growing and growing and growing to the point where [the problem of gun violence] just seemed overwhelming.”
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- ro_bit 6mo agoFinally, wojak invocation on HN
- traderj0e 6mo agoProud to be part of this historic moment, took until 2026 but better late than never