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    The Onion‏Verified account @TheOnion Mar 29

    Police Repeatedly Shoot Tim Cook After Mistaking iPhone For Gun https://trib.al/Ww4SGVB pic.twitter.com/YsILCalN20

    11:10 AM - 29 Mar 2018
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    196 replies 4,557 retweets 16,531 likes
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      2. handsome squidward‏ @pussy_footer Mar 29
        Replying to @TheOnion

        i don’t understand how this is funny. the last sentence is good in a clickhole sense but overall this really misses every mark

        10 replies 1 retweet 19 likes
      3. Bong Quixote‏ @pardonblack Mar 29
        Replying to @pussy_footer @TheOnion

        it's not supposed to be funny 'haha'. The joke is that the police never shoot white people with phones.

        3 replies 5 retweets 356 likes
      4. handsome squidward‏ @pussy_footer Mar 29
        Replying to @pardonblack @TheOnion

        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’?

        8 replies 0 retweets 13 likes
      5. Michael Glass‏ @RantiveMike Mar 29
        Replying to @pussy_footer @pardonblack @TheOnion

        Sometimes satire is funny. Sometimes it's just to make you think.

        2 replies 4 retweets 207 likes
      6. handsome squidward‏ @pussy_footer Mar 29
        Replying to @RantiveMike @pardonblack @TheOnion

        but this article does neither... that’s my point

        9 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      7. Todd‏ @toddamcknight Mar 29
        Replying to @pussy_footer @RantiveMike and

        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.

        1 reply 1 retweet 142 likes
      8. handsome squidward‏ @pussy_footer Mar 29
        Replying to @toddamcknight @RantiveMike and

        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

        6 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      9. Quaalid‏ @Quaalid Mar 29
        Replying to @pussy_footer

        You’re thinking too hard about this.

        4 replies 1 retweet 212 likes
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      2. Hydro Two 🇻🇨‏ @VaZo99 Mar 29
        Replying to @TheOnion

        He's white. He could have a bazooka and they wouldn't shoot him

        4 replies 2 retweets 238 likes
      3. Space Force‏ @HDaze89 Mar 29
        Replying to @VaZo99 @TheOnion

        That's why it's on The Onion!

        0 replies 0 retweets 111 likes
      4. End of conversation
      1. Jesse Herzog‏Verified account @jesseherzog Mar 29
        Replying to @TheOnion

        lol @ all the idiots in the comments who think satire has to be funny

        0 replies 1 retweet 90 likes
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      2. Elle‏ @ellerobbe Mar 29
        Replying to @TheOnion

        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.

        2 replies 2 retweets 55 likes
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      2. Elle‏ @ellerobbe Mar 29
        Replying to @TheOnion

        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.

        1 reply 2 retweets 112 likes
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      2. Blanche Poulet‏ @fppoulet Mar 29
        Replying to @TheOnion

        Sorry..this isn’t funny in any way....

        4 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Exen with the Big Dork Energy‏ @exentrik137 Mar 29
        Replying to @fppoulet @TheOnion

        You aren't supposed to laugh, you're supposed to suffer

        0 replies 1 retweet 43 likes
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      1. LA-Law.NL‏ @LALawReport Mar 29
        Replying to @TheOnion

        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."

        0 replies 1 retweet 22 likes
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      1. Cold Now‏ @Xeredge Mar 29
        Replying to @TheOnion

        People being serious in the comments and I'm just thinking, "it's the onion..."

        0 replies 0 retweets 28 likes
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      1. Gava‏ @ArthurGavaa Mar 29
        Replying to @TheOnion

        Laughing with respect

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