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Todd Phillips Assures Fans Incel Sensitivity Readers Were Hired for Joker Sequel (hard-drive.net)

submitted 10 months ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 10 months ago

At press time, Todd Phillips was ushered off stage after breaking down into tears, claiming he was a “nice guy.”

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[–] altair222@beehaw.org 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Thought this was a real headline

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

At first I thought someone had posted this to the wrong community.

[+] Random123@fedia.io -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We used to be able to enjoy and laugh at satire because politicians had enough sanity that we could easily tell it apart.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] microphone900@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

Maybe not all of them were ready for violence, but a lot of them were prepared. They didn't forget to bring guns, many had guns on them inside the Capitol building.. There were people with zip-tie handcuffs.. They were a hair's breadth away from politicians who were their targets of ire, who they believed were stealing their country, when Ashli Babbitt breached the last barrier and reached the last line of defense before being shot. Behind Babbitt was a hallway/staircase full of insurrectionists.

Few started the day with a desire to get into the Capitol. Many were swept up in the moment by following far right extremist groups who were executing a plan to get in. Though we know how far they went following those extremists, we'll never know how much farther they would have gone had those same extremists managed to reach politicians. Thank goodness they were stopped otherwise this may be a very different country.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's fair but Gaga is a pretty decent actor

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Man… I have no idea who any of these people are. I hate that.

[–] Navarian@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Took me longer than I care to admit before I realised this was the Onion.