Spyke
ZeroCoolreply
slrpnk.net

Right? Solid satire, but just to give credit where it's due, this is from hard-drive.net which is a gaming/tech focused spin-off of a music satire site called The Hard Times. They consistently crack me up so just wanted to take the opportunity to credit them.

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AeronMelonreply
lemmy.world

Point taken. I meant Onion in the same way you say Kleenex instead of tissue. It’s now a general term for any satirical news article.

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ZeroCoolreply
slrpnk.net

Oh no worries, I totally get it! I was just linking for the sake of anyone reading the comments because those are both quality sites that are worth reading. I've found the name of this community can be kind of misleading, so it's not uncommon for people to be unaware of how many quality satire sites are out there besides The Onion.

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samus12345
lemm.ee

if Mr. Mangione had spent more time pulling on his bootstraps and less time feeling sorry for himself and obsessing over his debilitating chronic back pain that UnitedHealthcare refused to cover treatment of – for I’m sure for very good reasons – he might have one day helmed a parasitic corporation of his own. Sadly, he chose another path.”

Love the satire, but one important point: Luigi didn't have UHC insurance. So if he did do this, it wasn't even because of a personal grudge - it was to strike back at a system in general that fucked him over.

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Monumentreply
lemmy.sdf.org

Huh. I haven’t seen that factoid before.

It distances the motive from personal vendetta. It provides support to the narrative that he did this for principles, and not revenge.

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samus12345reply
lemm.ee

They were absolutely the best choice to target, the worst of the worst.

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stinkyreply
redlemmy.com

Deserve, by what standard? Moral, religious, legal? How do we measure deserve

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Wes4Humanityreply
lemm.ee

Oh... It was a joke... Because having united health care as your insurance is basically a death sentence

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SupraMario
lemmy.world

how long has trump being prosecuted? Years and years and years....Luigi should run for president, effective immediately so they have to delay the verdicts...

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Queen HawlSera
lemm.ee

I love how it's an open secret that basically everyone fucking loves Luigi Mangione and we don't even know if he did it.

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Pringles
lemm.ee

There are plenty of toll evaders, homeless, minorities, and otherwise lesser people whose lives you could have taken, and were that the case I would not feel so inclined to mete out such a harsh sentence but in this instance you leave me no choice but to impose the harshest ruling possible.

Never change, The Onion, never change!

Edit: alright, I assumed it was the Onion based on the community. But sure, it was some other site.

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Amanduhreply
lemm.ee

It's a sub called the onion brother, people assuming the articles posted being from the onion is the default

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Voyajerreply
lemmy.world

Half of the posts aren't even from the onion here

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Amanduhreply
lemm.ee

But the community name sure is the onion right? So if someone comes in here and assumes the article is from the onion then that's a pretty reasonable assumption right?

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Voyajerreply
lemmy.world

I thought so too but then I counted. Apparently there are a lot more satire sites that are gaining popularity.

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Rhaedas
fedia.io

That's Vader-level "I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further."

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