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Jealous Florida Senate Hurriedly Passes Bill Allowing Teachers to Pistol Whip Tardy Students (thehardtimes.net)

submitted 7 months ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 43 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Figuring out fact from fiction keeps getting harder

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Right? Like they’d pay teachers enough to buy their own firearm. Pshhh

[–] AGuyAcrossTheInternet@fedia.io 5 points 7 months ago

The Onion sent their journalists to the future to do actual journalistic work and sent them back to us to deliver news as satire. You can't convince me they do it any differently. Too many Onion articles turned out surprisingly close to home over time.