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Re:“The Onion” founder explains his strategy for sparking cr... by anononaut on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @02:42PM (#36975116)
The Babylon Bee easily nabbed the torch from The Onion in the last few years. Surprisingly more edgy, too.
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Re:“The Onion” founder explains his strategy for sparking cr... by sjustinas on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:48PM (#36976246)
me reading 89th "attack helicopter" joke in a row: WHEEZE
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Re:“The Onion” founder explains his strategy for sparking cr... by seattle_spring on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:07PM (#36980493)
Exactly my thoughts. BabylonBee just seems like a collection of incredibly lazy political jokes. Folks in certain subreddits sure eat it up though; in some there are more BabylonBee posts than actual real content.
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Re:“The Onion” founder explains his strategy for sparking cr... by lockhouse on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @08:26PM (#36979760)
A shocking amount of Babylon Bee articles have predicted the future too.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2022/05/30/babyl...

Reality has really started to make satirists jobs difficult.

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Re:“The Onion” founder explains his strategy for sparking cr... by JuanPosadas on Thursday August 03, 2023 @01:36AM (#36981812)
I stop reading that "list of fulfilled predictions" after the first three because all three "predictions" were substantially different claims than the alleged "fullfillments".
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Re:“The Onion” founder explains his strategy for sparking cr... by azan_ on Thursday August 03, 2023 @09:54AM (#36985962)
Wow, that's really terrible list when on top you've got "Marvel's newest Captain America is an LGBTQ+ activist" as a fulfillment for "Captain America Rebooted As Feminist, Atheist, Transgender Hydra Agent"
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Re:“The Onion” founder explains his strategy for sparking cr... by creatonez on Thursday August 03, 2023 @03:49AM (#36982647)
Hard disagree. The Babylon Bee is wildly unfunny, incapable of even the most basic principles of humor most of the time. Half of it is the same few jokes repeated over and over again.
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