Just in case people don’t know… Yes, that’s the actual headline. Pretty sure Vox is actively trying to get our attention.

I don’t like this. I really, really don’t like this. On, like, a visceral level.

Good. Make Russian civilians see the horrors of the war they support personally.

Maybe so, but at least you guys aren’t Russia or Cuba.

If it’s personal behavior, there is no line.

Seriously, we need to internalize this: If you support Donald Trump in 2024 at this point, there is no goddamn line. There is nothing too atrocious or puerile or insulting to his own base that he could do or say to lose them at this point. He owns them.

I used to joke that he could literally eat a baby live on stage at one of his rallies and not lose supporters, because he’d insist it was fake news even as the blood dripped down his chin.

It’s not a joke anymore. He really could do it, and far too many of his supporters would believe him over their own lying eyes.

Trump support, at this point, is a mental health crisis in this country.

The thing we as a planet need to recognize is that Russia is waging a propaganda war against everyone, and it’s currently winning.

But the freakiness is still 100% present in their platforms and ideologies. They’re just dressing nicer now.

…with voters endorsing a plan to break up the country in just a few years…

What the actual fuck! These extremists just… don’t want to be a country anymore? Putin must fucking love them.

Exactly. And they won’t fix immigration, they’ll just enrich themselves as much as they possibly can.

It’s truly bizarre. Every couple of decades or so, either the United States or significant chunks of Europe decide, “What the hell, let’s give the right-wingers another chance, they say they’ll fix immigration,” and then we end up cutting funding for services and giving tax cuts to the rich. They pull this shit every goddamn time, and we keep falling for the bait-and-switch.

Hey, uhh, Europe? Can we talk?

Look, I know the way the left has been handling immigration has you upset, but could you please take a closer look at the absolute freaks you’re electing today?

I mean, just take a good look at the United States, circa 2017 through 2020. Did we look like electing an absolute freak worked out for us? Did it fix our own immigration problems? Did it make electing your own Donald Trumps look like a good idea?

Void, here. And I just gotta say…

Sounds like some deeply, deeply internalized self-hatred going on there.

Wow. This is… wow. OK, look… I like the sentiment, the idea that healthy relationships in general should be depicted more often, but can you name the last ten shows or movies you watched that feature healthy depictions of LGBTQ+ relationships? I can, because those depictions are so rare they stand out. I can’t name the last ten shows or movies I watched with straight relationships in them, because that’s literally all of them. Yes, including the ones that also depicted LGBTQ+ relationships.

There needs to be more healthy representation of relationships. But specifically straight ones? Nah… We’re saturated with those enough already.

Holy shit, he actually said that.

This, right here, is a prime example of a political headline that looks like it comes from The Onion.

You do raise some valid points, but the problem here is that if we go that route, we might as well rename this community from “Not The Onion” to “Politics But Focused Mostly On Hypocrisy”.

I don’t think most of the people in this community want this to be a politically-focused community to the exclusion of everything else. We don’t want every article on the front page to be yet another “Trump did/said something hypocritical again.” That’s not Onion-y.

No worries. I’m utterly incapable of basic logic until I get my coffee.

I’ll allow it.

Those were examples of actual Onion headlines to serve as guidelines for the headlines that would fit well here. But yeah, actual Onion articles wouldn’t fit here, because… This is Not The Onion.

So… Please drink some coffee.

I mean, I’m not gonna dispute that reality has been resembling The Onion more and more, but it’s important that the headlines convey that Onion-y goodness, and too many lately haven’t or are really borderline. People come here to say to themselves, “Holy shit, I can’t believe that’s a real headline!” Not “Holy shit… now I’m depressed. Oh, and that headline… is depressing.”