Look, I get it. The gargantuan shit-show that is U.S. politics and the American descent into fascism is on everyone’s minds. It’s certainly on mine.
But the point of this community is to highlight weird news stories that make you go, “By golly, I thought I was reading a headline from The Onion. You know, America’s finest news source.” A lot of stories being posted lately don’t even remotely fit that.
That doesn’t mean political stories aren’t allowed here, but they must have headlines that would make people pause and wonder if it’s a story from The Onion. Straight up regular, non Onion-y headlines don’t fit.
Geez you’re not kidding. All the recent posts are politics with regular sounding headlines. I’m gonna start downvoting headlines that don’t fit.
It’s not even valuable politics posts.
Every other one is an annoying ‘look at the stupid thing Trump said, did or wore’.Thanks, the current government did some weird stuff that might have been an onion-like piece in another administration, and I have upvoted quite some of those surprising events in the beginning, but most recent posts are just ‘something that happened in America that doesn’t usually happen in a functional democracy’ and I think it has become too much to be honest.
Fair point. These three aren’t great.
Since when was “fighter jet falls off aircraft carrier” satirical? This stuff does happen occasionally. It’s just an accident.
Most stuff on here belongs on aboringdystopia
The Alex Jones one actually gave me a good “That’s pretty Onion-y” hit.
