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Furious Trump demands to know why Minneapolis shooting hasn’t sparked civil war yet (www.thebeaverton.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

under my breath Jesus fucking Christ…

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did you eat the Onion or is the only-kinda-satire we're getting now just horrifying?

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Satire has to race reality to the bottom just to not be a factual statement anymore.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah generally you think of satire as being an exaggerated version of something that's happening... a lot of 'satire' on Tump isn't exaggerated at all, it's shit he would absolutely plausibly do; we just don't have an actual record of him doing it.

It'd be like putting an article out about me eating pizza for dinner, and calling it satire because you don't actually know what I ate for dinner. But I would 100% nom a pizza if there was one infront of me.