The Onion is one of the things keeping me alive.

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(snark, in the vein of The Onion): I mean c'mon. They are just going to get married and beaten. Why does anyone have to pay dollars for this?

(oh god. I am horrible) ๐Ÿซข

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The Onion is at its best when times are worst.

@heidilifeldman omggggg ๐Ÿ˜† ... I've been meaning to get a subscription to their print copy. Will do so posthaste!
@PamelaBarroway subscribed tonight. Can't wait for my first print issue. $9 a month. Worth it .
@PamelaBarroway @heidilifeldman my first print edition is supposed to arrive in a week or two and i am so excited
@mrgtwentythree @PamelaBarroway @heidilifeldman Subscriber here, the ads are next level ๐Ÿ˜‚
@heidilifeldman This really shouldn't be funny, so why am I ROFLMAOing?
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Lately the actual news is so surreal that it seems all The Onion need do is simply state facts.

@heidilifeldman I see stuff like this and I give a low whistle and I think about Certain Comedians who whine about how they can't do edgy comedy anymore and what a bunch of lazy cowards they are.

*This* is edgy comedy. Taking incredibly dark subject matter and turning it to razor-sharp social commentary. The transgression is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

@Thad @heidilifeldman Also, I would call this newscasting, in a country - or a world - where that art is largely dead. It may not be factual, but it informs, not misinforms or uninforms, the reader. Meta-factual, if you like.

@martinvermeer Right, it's comic exaggeration to expose truth. Hegseth didn't really say that, and the audience knows he didn't really say that, but it's commentary on his misogyny and his psychopathic disregard for human rights.

With a bluntness and clarity that the mainstream press actively avoids.

@heidilifeldman

When irony becomes the only truth...

@heidilifeldman One of the best things I did starting 2 years agoโ€”subscribe to print of the Onion and get terrific mail once a month. Itโ€™s more pages than long ago and even some in color. The โ€œadsโ€ make you laugh out loud. I decided anything that delivers a hearty laugh is worth supporting.
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Onion headlines now sometimes are actually more accurate than the "real" headlines. ๐Ÿ˜†

@heidilifeldman @xgranade Ahhhh. Dark humour. So we can laugh in the faces of oppression, horror, and death.

They hate it when we laugh at them.

@heidilifeldman Pete says the girls would have been safer with his pedo friends!