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Human Ghostwriter (@HG@beige.party)
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One of my favorite things about The Onion buying InfoWars at auction and doing the exact same schtick but with a wink is that it happened at the exact right moment in American history. The right-wing populist ouroboros of the last 25 years gobbled up every conceivable lever of power through deception, coercion, procedural fuckery, and overt violence, and then they ran the country like a drunken child who stole a tank.
Now, these smug shitasses are looking at the world they have created, and they cannot possibly be happy. The tank has crashed into a ditch. Their spiritual leader is a hateful ancient incontinent steak salesman. Their foremost cultural representatives are Kid Rock and Rob Schneider. They are mad that cheese doesn't hate Muslims enough (source: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tillamook-boycott-halal-certification-label-cheese-1820591). They are full of anger and they cannot point it in any direction that doesn't rattle their fillings with cognitive dissonance.
Against this backdrop, The Onion is taking the exact same bullshit culture war fixations, repeating them with a wild surmise and the appropriate watermark, and achieving perfect, total mockery. It's barely more than a mirror, and it is lethally effective:


Are they though? I have yet to see more than anecdotal evidence and wishful thinking
Sadly, beng completely void of empathy means that bad things have to affect them directly before they realize that bad things are bad. (Empathy is intelligence).