dwazou@jlai.lu to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoCapital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concernswww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareCocodapuf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoI love the optimism of the idea that this belongs in Not The Onion. This headline should belong in Not The Onion… I vaguely remember the days when this would have been an outlandish headline, makes me feel nostalgic.
minus-squaredwazou@jlai.luOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoHe is the President of the United States
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 day agoSure, and? Headlines in this community are supposed to be funny, not just unusual.
minus-squaresubignition@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 day agoThe rules don’t say the headline needs to be funny, just that it needs to be plausibly mistaken for The Onion. There is quite a spectrum of “This is just depressing enough that I’m not sure it’s real” these days
minus-squarelolrightythen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 day agoSadly, this is currently usual.
How is this Not The Onion?
I love the optimism of the idea that this belongs in Not The Onion. This headline should belong in Not The Onion…
I vaguely remember the days when this would have been an outlandish headline, makes me feel nostalgic.
He is the President of the United States
Sure, and? Headlines in this community are supposed to be funny, not just unusual.
The rules don’t say the headline needs to be funny, just that it needs to be plausibly mistaken for The Onion.
There is quite a spectrum of “This is just depressing enough that I’m not sure it’s real” these days
Sadly, this is currently usual.