People downvoting this thread because they're not getting that this is satire by the onion makes this post infinitely funnier. Well played OP
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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I don't get it... Is the joke just that conservative cartoons label everything and use straw-man stereotypes?
I suppose it's probably funnier if you actually encounter these irrationally conservative people in real life - though I suppose I prefer the situation where I don't 😅
Somehow this isn't satire
That looks dope. I want to go on the pronoun train!
Nice try, I'm not eating the onion this time.
(Seriously though, the satire isn't actually worse than this. Which makes sense, because... What the actual fuck. But yeah, that does make it unclear that it's satire and what point it's trying to make.)
Yes. There's a whole series of these comics.
The Onion is a parody of normal newspapers; since normal newspaper political comics follow satire, The Onion goes double up to satirize their satire.
Lots of people gonna have bad breath from eating the Onion lol
I was not sure what I was reading (not having a lot of references for actual American conservative cartoons probably explains that a bit) but crying liberty was too much even for gullible me.
Why is this being downvoted? All this artist does is spoof conservative political cartoons.
requires knowing (and caring) about the artist and knowing they work for The Onion and knowing they do spoofs – I think this is only the third time I've seen anything of theirs and I'm far more likely to invoke Poe’s law than to spend any time questioning the lack of humor ...
Knowing that the artist does satire is not a prerequisite for recognizing that this is satire. It's very obvious. And also hilarious.
Unfortunately, a lot of "obvious satire" turns out to be serious. This is a bit more obvious than most, but it can be hard to tell, these days.
Oops. Maybe I should have made that quite clear that it's satirising the American right 🤣
As a man that owns a long sleeve Sickos shirt I would like to see more comics by him on Lemmy.
I'll admit, I ate the Onion.
Moving this out of the contrext of the onion pushes it from "haha, WTF?" to just "WTF?".
I don't hate it, but 50% or more of the average article's value is in the headline. They could go to lorem ipsum text and have minimal reduction in quality.
Moving this out of the contrext of the onion pushes it from “haha, WTF?” to just “WTF?”.
Completely agree with this. If you don't follow the specific artist, and I don't, it just looks like a right-winger cartoonist clumsily satirizing "wokeness" with a bad pastiche of an R. Crumb or Charles Burns "comix" style. Maybe the joke's on me for not going another layer deep and seeing how vapid the "satire" is and realizing it's meta, but the creatives on the American right are not known for their subtlety.
He said "ate". This is a term used to mean that someone took the article at face value, without realizing it is satire.
That's what I'm saying. I ate it too, or at least took a bite and started chewing before trying to figure out what was off here.
EDIT: LOL, now I have no idea whether I misread, or if @MajorHavoc edited their post to change "hate" to "ate". Probably the former, though I stand by my opinion that The Onion's best gags are always the headlines. 🤣
The comment wasn't edited, there would be an indicator on it.
"Ate the onion" is indeed a real phrase.
Lady Liberty crying and holding a beer labeled "beer" didn't give it away for you?
Lol. I am not a clever person, sometimes.
Wait... But how could Homer be a crude stereotype of a white male?
... He's bright yellow!
Nah, he's Ethinically Ambigaus
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