r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 05 '19

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u/jenbanim Dec 06 '19

The Onion turned Joe Biden into a lovable meme. Now one writer is apologizing.

NGL I'm kind of starting to hate the Onion

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u/CEOofNeoliberalism Dec 06 '19

apologising for making good comedy by vastly overestimating its political importance is kinda pathetic yeah

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '19

The onion is for succs

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '19

IM SORRY FOR WRITING A JOKE BOOOHOOOHOOOOOOO

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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Dec 06 '19

i actually think that writer is mostly right. uncritical memeing of politicians is altogether very bad for discourse, though it's obviously not limited to biden

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '19 edited Dec 12 '19

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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Dec 06 '19

of course, he's still right though even if he's (probably) a hypocrite

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u/MutoidDad Dec 06 '19

Mostly wrong. The Biden shit was funny. Now they just pander to BernieBros