On: The Onion buys Infowars

[kobalsky]

they are fueled by clickbait, and they've promoted the practice.

it's probably the first site I've manually added to my dns blacklist.

[DirkH → kobalsky]

I find this comment so funny I burst out laughing. I cannot tell whether you're serious.

[mjmsmith → kobalsky]

Area man is consistently fooled by The Onion.

[TZubiri → mjmsmith]

Got im

[shevis → kobalsky]

My friend, you have eaten the onion.

[kobalsky → shevis]

I'm not from the US so naturally they've confused me in the past.

more than once I caught myself clicking on a shared headline of theirs, so I've added them to my DNS blocklist to avoid giving them clicks, decades ago.

my problem is not with their obviously ridiculous headlines, but the ones that hit the grey area, where it's as much good humor as a screamer is good horror.

[consteval → kobalsky]

The thing is the onion is pretty much always ridiculous, so if some of them are in a "gray area" I think that moreso speaks to the overall climate or your own personal biases.

[dicknuckle → consteval]

More likely to be a case of not being familiar with US politics and events. We're not the world, and plenty of Americans forget that.