Get ready to DEMOLISH Drumpf with The Onion's new site, ResistanceHole
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Why are we trying to drive those people away? What harm could they bring that will be more damaging than what Trump has already done?
There are some well-chosen targets and enlightening digs here. But overall, this is just smart "liberal" white men patting themselves on the dick, as usual.
Dear Mr. Draper,
You are not doing your proper research sir, I formally ask you to read this tweet. Tic tic tic
Finally, someone who has achieved peak wokenness has arrived to speak truth to problematic center-right power.
You can't just say that is a result of "being left" #notallleft
Imagine being so full of yourself and thin skinned that the Onion making fun of you causes you to quit doing any kind of activism
I don't know why we pat ourselves in the back for not being like those liberals that are mocked in this satire site. At least I have a considerable amount of friends who hate the right as much as anyone here and that still mocks this forum for taking some things too far
what do you think leftism actually is? because it's not just disliking trump
Ruthless. Get Albino Blacksheep, Neil Cicierega, Tom Fulp, and YTMND back on the war path, guys!
I love how this is taking the piss out of Daou, Garland, Mensch, and other Twitter pundits misrepresenting the U.S. center and left. Let's see how far The Onion can take this.
No, but that's what this satire us poking fun at. People saying "that's not us! we're not that bad!" is laughable. They're poking fun at most of Era. That's okay, and we can laugh about it.
Not gonna lie I want that mashup
I don't think so. It's more pointed towards certain Twitter accounts and the Huffington Post.
I'll be honest I'm sick to shit of "leftists" trying to wash their hands of all their dumb bullshit and I'm not accusing you of doing that but I'm gonna go off on you regardless.
"Leftists" were the ones decrying the democrats for engaging in "identity politics" and saying that minorities need to take a seat so we can appeal to the working class. Then immediately following the election they changed their tune to say that Democrats lost because they abandoned and took for granted minorities to try to appeal to the white working class. Which one is it fuckers?
Now we're here and this is somehow not satire of "leftists"? It wasn't die-hard Hillary supporters that founded the "Justice Democrats" and "The Resistance Party" these are not dirty centrists and "neo liberals"
I don't mean to pat myself on the back. I'm saying that ResetERA isn't as obnoxious as my Facebook feed or r/politics. That's not to say that folks here (including myself) don't take things too far sometimes, but...I mean, have you been to Facebook or r/politics?
Man, if you don't like interacting with people because of political views then don't interact with those people.
I'm so confused as to what you are arguing about. Era is left-leaning but not incredibly so. We get trump supporters in many threads. Sometimes they get called out, sometimes they don't. Analyze the atmosphere of the thread you are in and contextualize your posts accordingly. It's not that hard.
Read all my posts in this thread. I'm not saying this shouldn't be a thing. But who is it helping, CURRENTLY? What perspective is this coming from, RIGHT NOW?
He goes into every Trump thread and spins the topic as favorably to Trump as he possibly can without coming out and saying he approves of him. He also criticizes "the left" as much as he possibly can without coming out and calling himself a Republican.
So his posts in this thread are predictable.
Are you honestly under the impression that one of those is making fun of democrats?
There's plenty to the left of the mainstream American left.
now THAT is funny
Donald Trump...*audience laughter*
Trump jokes = lowest hanging fruit in comedy since mid 2015 IIRC
What I will say is very Era like is that a thread about a humorous Onion site will now devolve into how left Era is as a community, what's wrong with denominations within it, etc.
Despite most of us (so far) finding it funny.
And all it took was a tiny bit of prodding :P
Despite most of us (so far) finding it funny.
And all it took was a tiny bit of prodding :P
Probably because no one, well hopefully anyway, actually identifies very much with a forum.
I like the Onion. I like PatriotHole.
This is not funny.
The things that are happening are incredibly serious. And irony/jokes/insincerity are tools that have been abused to open the floodgates to the peril that the United States and globe finds itself in, but hey, 'just jokes, bro!' and 'lighten up, will ya!'.
This is not funny.
The things that are happening are incredibly serious. And irony/jokes/insincerity are tools that have been abused to open the floodgates to the peril that the United States and globe finds itself in, but hey, 'just jokes, bro!' and 'lighten up, will ya!'.
Can you point to specific people who flip-flopped in that way rather than just the nebulous group of "leftists", within which there are lots of people with differing opinions on things?
Oh you weren't specific initially- I thought you were saying Era isn't left leaning.
It's just a site where we can laugh at caricatures of leftist activists.
It's been rife for satire for some time, considering the joke some people have made themselves into.
Calling out specific people when egged on got Cream banned so I'll hold my tongue thank you.
It would have been a hundred times worse at the old place.
Forums with heavy moderation (From mods and Users) like this one or Gaf always lean towards something, is no coincidence that after the whole EvilLore debacle Gaf went from an OT that was similar to EtcetEra to The Donald Lite.
Forum Identity IS a thing, otherwise we couldn't criticize sites like /pol or some infamous reddits
How can you like the onion yet think you can’t joke about serious things?? That’s like half their stuff. I swear, some of you guys
So you can basically just make broad claims generalized to a large group of people, and then step back from actually providing examples? I have no doubt some people did what you said, but I'm not sure how you get from that to it being an endemic problem.
"leftist"
Its a caricature of people who make SNL/Late Night Talk TV their political standing and will say "Well at least Bush CARED and DID WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS BEST" and also Eric Garland
Yes, things that are happening are incredibly serious.
Some people talking about these things or trying to affect these things are jokes. Hilariously over the top to the point of being, up to this point, almost beyond satire.
Hell, we have a thread on ERA's front page right now whose title could fit right in to this new site "Michael Avenatii drops a BOMB!!" *chef kissy fingers* So beautifully dramatic and over the top.
