Onion stories used to be slightly believable, able to trick the casual reader.
Police officers handling a situation without violence? Easily spotted as pure fiction.
this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2025
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I think the satire is in the fact that the headline wouldn't make headlines anywhere else.
I have loved The Onion recently. I could be mistaken, but I seem to remember there was a fairly obvious drop off in writing quality for a number of years so I didn't pay much attention to it for a long time. Now it seems that they got new talent or the writers just got better with time.
It was sold and resold a number of times
recently to Global Tetrahedron;)
That pretty much explains it
Wait what? No minorities were harassed? Suspend those guys immediately!
Shocking!
This one is obviously fictional.
The Onion has gone so far that no one, not one person, will eat this onion.