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U.S. Army Recruiter Has Bound, Gagged Civilian That Teen Can Shoot Right Now If He Enlists (www.theonion.com)

submitted 5 months ago by can@sh.itjust.works to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] Flummoxed@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is what The Onion should be doing always. That and the person from the street bits.

[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel like I've seen an immediate increase in quality and especially bite to the Onion since their acquisition by the fans earlier this year. It's awesome!

[–] Flummoxed@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely. The sting is back that so many people said was impossible in this era.

If only we could make something like this happen to a Murdoch paper or other "real" source.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Agreed…the quality never really went down, but the current content has that bite that early Onion pieces did. The early Onion was great but also new and something we really hadn’t seen before (by early Onion I mean Internet Onion, not the strictly print version).

This is the Onion that we all know and love, and have for years, but the more recent satire is so much more rough and blunt and raw that it elicits a similar reaction to the fresh, new Onion whose content was consistently a shocking yet laugh-until-you-cry experience because it hadn’t yet become routine. It’s like they said “Hold my absolute one last fuck that I had been saving for an emergency”.

Basically they’ve managed to reinvent the shock value, if that makes sense.

Damn that was wordy. I hope my point comes across.

[–] Flummoxed@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes! Your point totally comes across, and I love words so whatever to the wordiness you feel! As a trained copy editor, I'd have trouble expressing the same in less words, even though that's a specialty of mine. I hope we continue to get this "last fuck given" content. I NEED IT in these trying times.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks so much! That makes me feel really good…I’m often told that I take too long to get to the point so this is honestly appreciated. :)