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Cop Practices For Long Day of Busting Protests By Beating Teenage Children at Home (thehardtimes.net)

submitted 5 months ago by graham1@lemmy.world to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Satire is supposed to exaggerate

[–] realbadat@programming.dev 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's hard these days for Onion writers.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Their russian colleagues look like they've already gave up. It's hard to joke at reality when the reality itself is a joke.

Russian Onion alternative called Panorama tweets 'Well, fuck that'

[–] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What is that picture in English?

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

'Fuck that!', commenting to a news story where Belarussian news agency announced another round of ridiculous repressions that are far beyound parody. I don't know how alt text following pictures shows on all platforms, but I wrote the translation here. It's a shame it doesn't show for you.

[–] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm using Sync. Might be the app I'm using. But thanks for the translation! It's straightforward but still hilarious lol.

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Yummy.

I won't eat that onion, but I love them for baiting the hook.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget their spouse. They love that practice.

[–] graham1@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Kristi Noem has entered the chat