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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

i am extremely upset by this post. Not because it is fake news presented as fact requiring a click thru to see it is from the onion, —the very reason i block fakenews— but because of the meta crap going on within hexbear.

I'm not fully aware of the nitty and gritty but i sense that it is posted here and in that manner because of the recent fakenews hateposts, whatever mods are having a spat, n such n so on.

its a fucking embarrassing slip for a server that generally conducts itself with more aplomb.

and that's like... leaving aside the fact that that this fakenews is extremely adjacent to real news around the world about real government action attacking trangendered folk. and i don't want to hear your effin excuses, only the most tone-deaf libassed person world refuse to see this point.

whoever it happens to be that needs to hear this? Hear me. hear what I'm saying. see where i and we are coming from. and instead of getting defensive like I'm seeing here, maybe listen to the people who are upset and do some goddamned self crit omg.

goddamnit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

is this satire? aplomb? lmao

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

i like you generally, but aplomb aint your thing like ever, that is true.

that said I'm not in the mood what you offer z, and you knew that, didn't you? so maybe youre one of those I'm talking to? i dunno, but itd be nice if you gained some grace.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

That last line, lmfao

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Please delete this shit and relegate the onion to fake news ffs. It's not even that people are lazy it's just the principle of the matter. In a comm about y'know real shit the shit should be real.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

fake news is only for OC

Onion articles have been posted to this comm hundreds of times throughout the years.

Click and read the article next time and you have nothing to fear. You are all getting upset when you only have yourselves to blame for being lazy consumers of headlines.

https://hexbear.net/post/255882?scrollToComments=false

https://hexbear.net/post/831072?scrollToComments=false

https://hexbear.net/post/3203968?scrollToComments=false

https://hexbear.net/post/3761049?scrollToComments=false

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

I thought we had a com for this that I've already blocked. Fuck sake.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's the onion come on lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

so it's literally fake news?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

it's the fucking onion. grow up

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

So it's literally fake news?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

no it's the onion, a satirical leftist paper that is the source of 90% of the emojis on this website

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

no, it's the onion, a satirical leftist paper

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Leftist is quite a stretch tbh. They're left-lib at best.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

No, it's satire. It's not trying to fool anyone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

when i pick up a print onion i know what it is, and I am seeking it out. when someone posts an onion headline with no context i get the same WTF moment as malicious fake news and have to do extra work to determine that it is fake.

the intent of the newspaper is not the intent of the poster is not the effect on the browser.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

If clicking the link to load the article is too much work then just block the comm and move on with your life. This isn't a serious comm and Onion articles get posted here all the time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

it's two clicks because clicking on the post loads the thread and then i have to load the article.

i block fake news I shouldn't have to block multiple comms for the same bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I don't know about mobile apps but on desktop clicking the thumbnail opens the link directly with one click.

I don't blame you for falling for the headline, "U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Combat" isn't that far removed from reality. But banning all Onion articles (which get posted here all the time without any complaints) because you fell for one and got mad about it is silly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

The Onion has been posted to this comm dozens of times in the past without any whinging. What is in the water today?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

the extra work of one mouse click

There's no such thing as print newspapers anymore, less than 0.0001% of the Onion's readership is from physical media most likely, it's all digital

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

poster should just put Onion: [headline text] in the title

and it's two clicks because i load into a thread i wasn't going to click on if i knew it was fake

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Damn two clicks?!?!

The whinging you've done in this thread is enough work to sift through around 250 onion articles!

Adding "Onion:" to the headline is 6 clicks. You're asking me to do triple your work??!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

the poster does it once, everybody comes by on the site has to do it individually, that's way more total work just for you to be a lazy asshole.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago (9 children)

some dipshit decided to make the rules on that one say OC only. admins should probably just step in and change that lmao

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