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i am extremely upset by this post. Not because it is fake news presented as fact requiring a click thru to see it is from the onion, —the very reason i block fakenews— but because of the meta crap going on within hexbear.
I’m not fully aware of the nitty and gritty but i sense that it is posted here and in that manner because of the recent fakenews hateposts, whatever mods are having a spat, n such n so on.
its a fucking embarrassing slip for a server that generally conducts itself with more aplomb.
and that’s like… leaving aside the fact that that this fakenews is extremely adjacent to real news around the world about real government action attacking trangendered folk. and i don’t want to hear your effin excuses, only the most tone-deaf libassed person world refuse to see this point.
whoever it happens to be that needs to hear this? Hear me. hear what I’m saying. see where i and we are coming from. and instead of getting defensive like I’m seeing here, maybe listen to the people who are upset and do some goddamned self crit omg.
goddamnit
is this satire? aplomb? lmao
i like you generally, but aplomb aint your thing like ever, that is true.
that said I’m not in the mood what you offer z, and you knew that, didn’t you? so maybe youre one of those I’m talking to? i dunno, but itd be nice if you gained some grace.
The reaction to this article can only be described as pathetic
disengage
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Boys named Sue in shambles, probably should invlude [the onion] in the title, its a little too real
Please delete this shit and relegate the onion to fake news ffs. It’s not even that people are lazy it’s just the principle of the matter. In a comm about y’know real shit the shit should be real.
fake news is only for OC
Onion articles have been posted to this comm hundreds of times throughout the years.
Click and read the article next time and you have nothing to fear. You are all getting upset when you only have yourselves to blame for being lazy consumers of headlines.
https://hexbear.net/post/255882?scrollToComments=false
https://hexbear.net/post/831072?scrollToComments=false
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you should delete this one too
I thought we had a com for this that I’ve already blocked. Fuck sake.
some dipshit decided to make the rules on that one say OC only. admins should probably just step in and change that lmao
I agree
I think banning onion posts is going a bit too far.
Maybe require The Onion in the title?
Maybe we should ban anyone who makes it obvious they only read headlines then comment
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Just trying to find a compromise
I think a good compromise is banning those who cannot read past headlines
name in title could go for any publication tbh
if you want onion posts in here, ban the fakenews com and OC fakenews posting
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It’s the onion come on lol
No. I will not “come on”. For a site that bends over backwards for neurodiverse people, there sure is a lot of pushback by people being like “it’s just a prank bro”
Fuck that
so it’s literally fake news?
No, it’s satire. It’s not trying to fool anyone.
when i pick up a print onion i know what it is, and I am seeking it out. when someone posts an onion headline with no context i get the same WTF moment as malicious fake news and have to do extra work to determine that it is fake.
the intent of the newspaper is not the intent of the poster is not the effect on the browser.
If clicking the link to load the article is too much work then just block the comm and move on with your life. This isn’t a serious comm and Onion articles get posted here all the time.
it’s two clicks because clicking on the post loads the thread and then i have to load the article.
i block fake news I shouldn’t have to block multiple comms for the same bullshit.
I don’t know about mobile apps but on desktop clicking the thumbnail opens the link directly with one click.
I don’t blame you for falling for the headline, “U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Combat” isn’t that far removed from reality. But banning all Onion articles (which get posted here all the time without any complaints) because you fell for one and got mad about it is silly.
The Onion has been posted to this comm dozens of times in the past without any whinging. What is in the water today?
the extra work of one mouse click
There’s no such thing as print newspapers anymore, less than 0.0001% of the Onion’s readership is from physical media most likely, it’s all digital
Not everyone has good Internet. What do you get out of this? Can’t we just categorize stuff?
If a friend asked you to you would
poster should just put Onion: [headline text] in the title
and it’s two clicks because i load into a thread i wasn’t going to click on if i knew it was fake
Damn two clicks?!?!
The whinging you’ve done in this thread is enough work to sift through around 250 onion articles!
Adding “Onion:” to the headline is 6 clicks. You’re asking me to do triple your work??!
it’s the fucking onion. grow up
So it’s literally fake news?
no it’s the onion, a satirical leftist paper that is the source of 90% of the emojis on this website
No? It’s not fake news?
no, it’s the onion, a satirical leftist paper
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Neat. Doesn’t change how I feel
I ate the fucking onion
Man all those Jessie’s and Jamie’s they’re missing out on.
Team Rocket’s blasting off… for the last time 😔
WAOW this sub is awful fake news everywhere…
Goddamnit, I didn’t look at the source. Fucking ban onion posting in non-fakenews coms.
Gonna have to disagree on this. Keeping Onion posts out of c/news is understandable, but this isn’t c/news, it’s c/chapotraphouse. This was never a 100% super serious all the time news comm.
Goddamnit, I didn’t look at the source.
your fault - read the article next time before commenting
I’m autistic and I take things literally. But thanks for trying to shame me about it. Fuck off.
Autism doesn’t make you lazy or unable to read more than a headline
you literally did not comment anywhere on this thread besides your original comment above so the fact you’re taking my response as ‘shaming’ when it is clearly light ribbing is incredible but my apologies you got the wrong impression
Well, again, I’m autistic, I read your comment literally. Apologies for taking the joke wrong, and also apologies for telling you to fuck off.
no need to apologize I deserve to be told to fuck off at least once a day to keep me humble
I am torn on this. The Onion bits are to close to reality for me to remove them from this comm
i will do a mod crusade if you start removing Onion posts from this comm because people can’t click on a linked article before commenting
That’s the issue though, isn’t it? If people clicked into every link, we wouldn’t need a fake news com. But sometimes people don’t, and spreading bullshit is still spreading bullshit
this is the chapotraphouse comm, not the news comm. If you are browsing the Chapotraphouse comm and expecting to find news headlines or posts that aren’t satire, I’m not sure what to tell you other than ‘go to the news comm’.
If people clicked into every link, we wouldn’t need a fake news com.
The reason we have a fake news comm is because Melina wanted it & did a comm request for it. You are coming at this as if the fake news comm was created to contain non-serious posts, when that was not the case.
I just scroll the front page, where I unsubbed from fake news because that shit is annoying as fuck. Do you really expect people to click on to every single link?
No but I think at least seeing ‘oh this was posted to chapotraphouse’ would key you in that maybe the headline US Military Banning Men With Girl Names From Combat isn’t serious and you would click on it before committing it to memory as something real that is happening/commenting.
Maybe this is just me though.
Another mod removed it, I restored it. The Onion is not at all in the spirit of what the fakenews comm was meant to contain.
@other-mod remove it again
The fake news mod was meant to contain fake news
Another mod removed it, I restored it
the people’s mod Nakoichi
the other mod is a fascist sorry
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The onion belongs in the kitchen with other vegetables.
Stop being headline reactionary & click on the articles you want to make a comment on if you keep getting fooled!!
WAOW this sub is awful, real news to compliment my fake news??? everywhere…
I can’t hear that name without thinking of that iconic line.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
You’d think with their recruiting numbers in the red and their weird hard-on for even more war as entire the torrent that will be climate catastrophe they’d be treating this shit like Starship Troopers and taking whomever they can get.
The Onion’s comedic track record is untouchable. W’s for 20+ years.
this is what they want to take from us
“General, how many soldiers’ lives is the life of one gay man worth?”
“Seven.”
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
That last line, lmfao
but what about kelly and his heroes???
but how does this affect Jodie?!
He’ll still be serving (troops’ wives)
Sorry Aarons and Arins
