• Yerbouti
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    The Onion has lost all credibility since a couple of weeks.

    EDIT: Geez you people don’t like jokes… I’m saying this because reality got so stupid lately that even The Onion can’t go far enough. And it’s the very nature of satire not to be credible. That’s what the joke was all about, it’s… The Onion lol. Also fuck you all if you’re trigerred by this.

    • IninewCrow
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      313 months ago

      Satire sites don’t lose by losing credibility … they lose by gaining credibility

      • Yerbouti
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        83 months ago

        I don’t understand how so many of you even took this seriously.

        • @[email protected]
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          73 months ago

          I can’t speak for others, but I have autism and interpret things literally unless there are obvious signs of a joke. I’m one of the people that benefit from textual tone indicators.

          • Yerbouti
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            63 months ago

            Fair enough. It’s the nature of satire not to be credible, and that’s what the joke was all about.

    • Mohamed
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      113 months ago

      This is either an amazing joke, or a really stupid statement.

    • @[email protected]
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      353 months ago

      How? This isn’t even from the Onion. Also, how can a satire news source have credibility?

        • @[email protected]OP
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          213 months ago

          I call it humor.

          Congrats, you’ve just experienced your first time “bombing” it’s something every aspiring comedian experiences. Write better jokes.

          • Yerbouti
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            73 months ago

            Nah, I still think it’s a good joke, sorry. But you user name checks out lol.

            • @[email protected]OP
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              83 months ago

              But you user name checks out lol.

              Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see you’re as original as you are funny.

              • Yerbouti
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                53 months ago

                I’m just jocking lol. There’s many reason to be mad right now, a bad joke (there I’m admitting it) isn’t a good one.

                • @[email protected]OP
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                  93 months ago

                  I’m just jocking lol. There’s many reason to be mad right now, a bad joke (there I’m admitting it) isn’t a good one.

                  My dude… You told a bad joke, you got downvoted for it, and started whining about how nobody understood your joke. Nobody seems mad except you.

    • @[email protected]
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      33 months ago

      Just wanted to say that I understood your joke immediately and it gave me a good laugh. Irony in text is tricky. These are triggering times so I can see how people got confused…

      • Yerbouti
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        33 months ago

        Lol thanks. I wasn’t expediting so much reaction for this. I mean it’s The Onion…

    • @[email protected]
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      EDIT: Geez you people don’t like *bad* jokes…

      FTFY

      Also fuck you all if you’re trigerred by this.

      Lol. Lmao even.

      • Yerbouti
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        12 months ago

        Naaah, the joke is actually really good. The fact that you and a bunch of other can’t detect sarcasm without it being explicitly labeled is not my problem in the end, but I have an idea of the link between all of you. My only mistake was trying to explain it to idiots. And yeah people triggered by this are losers : “tHe OnIOn nEws dOesN’t hAve to be cRedible”, duh.

        Also what the fuck are you doing here? Did I expose you previously for being a pos and you’re still mad about it?? That would make you the ultimate loser in this thread lol.

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          Nah, you’re just a bad comedian, and like all bad comedians, get super butthurt when they get told their joke sucked. Would have been moderately funny if you’d actually used the correct satirical publication.

          My only mistake was trying to explain it to idiots.

          No, your mistake was the bad joke, not being able to take criticism, and raging at people who talk about your lame joke. But feel free to respond for the last word, I won’t read it.

          Feel free to assume I’ve interacted with you before, I’m sure that helps lol.

  • @[email protected]
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    213 months ago

    That’s a good one. I actually thought they did it as a weird protest until I saw the source.

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    I still think it makes no sense to write political non-sports slogans on a football pitch. (Not that I support racism)

    Edit: Ok I’m clearly missing some US-specific sports context here.

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      You witness a huge political display at the start of every game. The NFL was paid by the department of defense for the athletes to be present on the field for the anthem.

      • @[email protected]
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        23 months ago

        Exactly, that’s why I don’t see the point of such a sign being displayed at a football pitch where people go to watch football (and not to think about racism) – because it should be obvious that racism is bad wherever.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 months ago

          That still doesn’t drive to change the fact that you tried to use the Republican talking points of claiming racism as a political issue.

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            you tried to use the Republican talking points

            There was no hidden motive behind my comment. But ‘political’ was not the right choice of word.

    • @[email protected]
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      233 months ago

      When someone yells racial slurs at games do you just tell them to keep politics out of the stadium?

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      Quite frankly it’s flat out scary that you think that saying ‘racism is bad’ is politics.

      Fundamental human rights, and a basic respect for human beings regardless of what race they were born as, is not politics. People who want to make it politics should have the ever living fuck smacked out of them at minimum.

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        ‘political’ was probably a bad choice of word on my part because I agree that whether racism is bad needn’t be up for debate. The point I was trying to make was more that this proclamation has nothing to do with football. They could plaster a hundred other agreeable slogans like ‘end fossil fuels’, ‘tax the rich’ etc. across the pitch but I don’t think it’s something the football goer would appreciate.

        • @[email protected]
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          123 months ago

          No, because end fossil fuels and tax the rich are not universal, inarguable, basic human rights.

          And if the football goer doesn’t appreciate the words ‘end racism’ or has a problem with it, they should have the ever living fuck smacked out of them.

          You’re really over complicating this.

        • @[email protected]
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          123 months ago

          Put the shovel down, please. Racial justice and sports have an extremely long history. You are either uneducated on the subject or trolling extremely hard. Racism in sports is an ongoing issue both domestically and worldwide, pretending they aren’t related is insane.