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Can't talk about Russia in /c/nottheonion
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None of those articles are anything other than news. They look pretty normal-news to me. Onion stuff is supposed to be beyond the pale and ridiculous. Moscow getting hit by drones at this point is just news. That it coincides with something matters not a whit because there's like a war going on.
Trump saying anything pro-Russia with regards to Ukraine isn't news for the same reason. He's actually already said a lot of similar stuff already. It's just not unexpected, it's not surprising.
I actually went and gathered a bunch of links about Trump saying pro-Russia crap for the past 6 months and then I was like, "Who wants to read this?" We all know it's been happening. It's just not hard to believe anymore.
I think they should probably stop allowing "Trump or the White House posts a photoshop of Trump as something ridiculous" posts because those are also no longer surprising, but Trump 2028 apparel was surprising at the time. I remember seeing that and showing it to some people in my life who didn't believe me when I said that was coming. The "but I was intrigued" story belongs because that is also ridiculous, especially to anyone who knows anything about LLMs. I don't think the foreign movies one should have stuck, but it's for sure more oniony than "and there were more drone strikes."
So, yeah, YDI for these. These are regular news stories now. I'm sorry, but that's just the world we live in.
That is not ridiculous to you? :
As indicated by the following paragraph, no. Which is a shame, but again, completely believable. He has said similar things in the past.
Things can be "believable" and "ridiculous" in the same time. Trump saying shit like this doesn't make it "normal" 🙄
Seems like everything he says would qualify as ridiculous under those rules.
Firstly, some things he is saying are more ridiculous than others - that is one of these.
Secondly "not the onion" is precisely for that - for crazy shit which is really happening.