At press time, Todd Phillips was ushered off stage after breaking down into tears, claiming he was a “nice guy.”
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Thought this was a real headline
At first I thought someone had posted this to the wrong community.
Never understood the onion news. Its like its normalized misinfo
We used to be able to enjoy and laugh at satire because politicians had enough sanity that we could easily tell it apart.
Back in the day, if I read “Sitting president calls for a coup d’état after hearing he lost the election” we could laugh and go “oh, you silly satirical newspaper, such a thing would never happen, this was an amusing diversion from the mundane!”
Now we go “Oh my god, turn on basically any news channel, there’s people trying to murder congress and hang the vice president and nobody is trying to stop them” and continue on FOR FOUR GODDAMN YEARS LIKE NOTHING FUCKING HAPPENED
I mean to say this as softly as possible: If they intended to murder politicians, this demographic most likely to own firearms, where was all the gun violence?
What happened is a massive problem that is far too ignored. That said, either these people are so mentally deficient that we don’t need to fear an attempted coup by them because they can’t remember to bring their fucking guns with them, or they (in general) weren’t actually out for blood.
It was incredibly bloodless for a failed supposed overthrow. There have been numerous political demonstrations at colleges with more violence/injury/deaths.
Pulling away the hyperbole, I find it hard to call it more than a massive protest gone quite wrong. Those involved, including the inciters, deserve to be locked up. But assassins they weren’t.
My biggest issue was when I heard it was a musical. I was out. I hate musicals but I also hate a random genre shift like that so I knew I was not going to watch it. When they hired gaga I just had a chuckle but moved on
That’s fair but Gaga is a pretty decent actor
