i don’t understand how this is funny. the last sentence is good in a clickhole sense but overall this really misses every mark
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it's not supposed to be funny 'haha'. The joke is that the police never shoot white people with phones.
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right but there’s nothing witty or clever about the way that observation was expressed. like what is the joke? also in what way *is* it supposed to be funny if not ‘haha’?
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Sometimes satire is funny. Sometimes it's just to make you think.
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but this article does neither... that’s my point
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I feel like the Onion’s articles are primarily just vehicles for their (often) brilliantly satirical headlines. I mean, what else really needs to be said after a headline like this ? Stingingly absurd and effective.
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this is a fair point and i understand what you're saying but all they really did was take a real situation and make it tim cook getting shot instead. there's no spin. and i guess that may be why people find it so effective but it just doesn't do it for me
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You’re thinking too hard about this.
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He's white. He could have a bazooka and they wouldn't shoot him
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That's why it's on The Onion!
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lol @ all the idiots in the comments who think satire has to be funny
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Damn these scary gun shaped phones only black people seem to have. If only cellphones weren’t so threatening. I nearly shot myself just typing this cause I though my phone was a gun.
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Since everyone is thinking this was suppose to be funny: SATIRE- the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, OR ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
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Sorry..this isn’t funny in any way....
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You aren't supposed to laugh, you're supposed to suffer
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This: "Sources reported that surveillance footage from the event also shows officers stepping over Cook’s dead body and firing multiple rounds at an image of the iPhone 11 on a video screen, believing it to be a large gun."
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People being serious in the comments and I'm just thinking, "it's the onion..."
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Laughing with respect
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