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[–] 131 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah I ate the onion on that headline.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    People keep saying The Onion can’t compete with reality anymore, but every week or two I keep biting.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Doesn't that prove the point though? Even absurdist satire seems real because of how absurd reality has been.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ate the onion for about 5 seconds. Then I was like "......wait, what's the source? .....dammit!"

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago

    Parody is indistinguishable from reality

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The Onion manages to fool me again.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Call it what it is. The Department of Revenge

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  • [+] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Justice was always fake. Justice is just consequences imposed by the state

    But I guess it was better than just ICE

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

    "So we can believe the big ones?"

    YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

    "They're not the same at all!"

    YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

    "Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

    MY POINT EXACTLY.

    One of my favorite scenes from Discworld. People make the mistake of treating justice and other such concepts as though they are an inherent part of existence and will spontaneously appear even when nobody chooses to uphold them. Justice is an ideal, one that does not exist in nature and cannot happen on its own. It must be upheld by those in power to exist, but what we have now is a pale shadow of the real thing held captive by the unjust and wielded with bad faith. Even those still acting in our defense are being silenced or overridden by malicious actors higher up the chain.

    At some point we'll need to act if we want that word to continue meaning anything. To use another Discworld quote, "THERE IS NO JUSTICE. THERE'S JUST US."

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I hear Ministry of Love is available.

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    I felt like Truth didn't fully fit, I admit I just glanced at the wiki to remind myself of the various ministries. Here's why I chose Love for the DOJ:

    "The Ministry of Love serves as Oceania's interior ministry. It enforces loyalty to Big Brother through fear, buttressed through a massive apparatus of security and repression, as well as systematic brainwashing."

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago
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    Department of Jeffrey (epstein)

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    “Justice is a discriminatory form of woke cultural Marxism that has no place in our Justice Department,” Bondi said during a press conference, adding that pro-justice policies actively divided Americans, spread misinformation, and distracted from the DOJ’s core mission. “Anyone who says that justice is our department’s strength—or that we should promote dangerous ideals that imply Americans will be treated with dignity or compassion in the eyes of the law—is sadly mistaken.”

    Mistaken isn't the word, but sadly is.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Department of Joe

    Joe who?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    The j stands for jorkin it

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    Department of Judginess

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Reminds me that Veep basically decided to end the show because headlines were starting to be more absurd than the jokes they were writing.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Department of whatever J. Stands for in Trump J. D.....wait whatever J stands for in JD!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Department of Johnsons.

    Cuz they're all dicks.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Sound plausible in todays world.

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    [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm ashamed to admit I ate the onion for a few seconds.

    Would this actually surprise anyone if it happened?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Oh wow. They got me.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In another news article about this:

    “Democratic leaders condemned the actions, while admitting the removal enjoyed broad support, with 1 in 5 Americans endorsing the purging”

    “These are potential voters, and we might have adjust our midterm strategy to gain their confidence, perhaps by sacrificing a few rights of some minorities”

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I’ll eat that onion!

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