• Kalkaline @leminal.space
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    18 hours ago

    Hardtimes, they are a similar site and easily confused with the Onion, but let’s give proper credit to the publication.

      • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netOP
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        9 hours ago

        Yeah, Anyone that follows this community would probably recognize my username because I post a lot of these articles… and the sidebar makes it clear this is a community for all sorts of satire sites. But I think it would’ve been better named “satire” rather than “the onion”

        Every time I post something here there’s someone in the comments that’s confused about the fact that this sub welcomes content from multiple satire sites and not just The Onion.

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        14 hours ago

        The Onion is to satire sites what Nintendo was to consoles for parents and grandparents of the 80s/90s.

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          54 minutes ago

          True story: when I’m at my mom’s house I’ll tell her my Switch is a Nintendo or a Gameboy because explaining what it is is too much of a chore at this point.

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        14 hours ago

        I totally understand the reason why there is confusion, and almost didn’t reply because it felt nitpicky. Completely fair.

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          9 hours ago

          I feel like we both mentioned facts there - hopefully we added something to the conversation, that there’s some nuance wherein it both is but also is not The Onion, depending on which “it” we’re talking about:-).