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I'll admit, I ate the Onion.
Moving this out of the contrext of the onion pushes it from "haha, WTF?" to just "WTF?".
I don't hate it, but 50% or more of the average article's value is in the headline. They could go to lorem ipsum text and have minimal reduction in quality.
Completely agree with this. If you don't follow the specific artist, and I don't, it just looks like a right-winger cartoonist clumsily satirizing "wokeness" with a bad pastiche of an R. Crumb or Charles Burns "comix" style. Maybe the joke's on me for not going another layer deep and seeing how vapid the "satire" is and realizing it's meta, but the creatives on the American right are not known for their subtlety.
He said "ate". This is a term used to mean that someone took the article at face value, without realizing it is satire.
That's what I'm saying. I ate it too, or at least took a bite and started chewing before trying to figure out what was off here.
EDIT: LOL, now I have no idea whether I misread, or if @MajorHavoc edited their post to change "hate" to "ate". Probably the former, though I stand by my opinion that The Onion's best gags are always the headlines. 🤣
The comment wasn't edited, there would be an indicator on it.
"Ate the onion" is indeed a real phrase.
Lady Liberty crying and holding a beer labeled "beer" didn't give it away for you?
Lol. I am not a clever person, sometimes.