New Indiana Law Requires All Porn Viewers To Register As Sex Offenders
New Indiana Law Requires All Porn Viewers To Register As Sex Offenders
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New Indiana Law Requires All Porn Viewers To Register As Sex Offenders
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Genuine case of "this headline could easily be true in the current climate".
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I was genuinely eating this onion before I came to the comments lol. Came here to drop a WTF rant, and instead I find out I'm a dummy right now.
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I was honestly wondering how many people would tell on themselves.
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The audience is not to blame when comedy whiffs.
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My immediate reaction was "yeah, that tracks".
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Welp they got me on this one. Good shit, Onion. Ridiculous we live in a world where I believed this for a good 10 seconds.
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Yeah same here.
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I ate the onion
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The funny thing is that, if this were true, it would be the most efficient and effective way to register a hundred politicians, especially Republicans, as sex offenders.
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No, see... It was a "staffing issue"! Totally wasn't me. On my account.
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Oh no... I wasn't "watching porn" I was researching content to make sure the law is properly applied!
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It's pretty much impossible to satirise US politics, isn't it?
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"Indiana places all owners of Twister game on sex offender registry."
"Entire adult population held for questioning following anti-porn sting."
"Indiana prepares for porn criminalization by building prison wall around entire state."
"Indiana constructs new prison on former site of Ohio."
"Viewers of 'creampie' porn sentenced to watch videos to full term."
"ICE checkpoints established at vestibulum vaginae."
"Baby born on plane from Thailand deported back to Nigeria."
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"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." - Tom Lehrer
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Almost bought it. If they had called it a new bill, "introduced" or some such, instead of "law" it would be perfectly feasible.
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The comment section saves me once again.
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That's antithetical to satire.
What y'all experienced, in this headline, is The Onion fucking up. They picked a lie that's believable. Satire has to reach further than that, no matter how broken reality gets.
"Eating the onion" came from dipshits with zero media literacy believing the dumbest shit imaginable. Like "teenage girl to be tried as adult black man." If a bunch of reasonably savvy people have to check whether a satirical headline is real - that headline sucks. It has failed, as satire.
Comedy is selecting a lie your audience knows is not true. If half of them are going 'wait, really?' - revise.
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Always check the community under which it's posted. It's getting harder to spot the difference between theonion and nottheonion.
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As someone who grew up in Indiana, I believed it for a second or two
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laugh all you want, but the Kids Online Safety Act would do this on a federal scale... and it's already passed the house
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It really got me this time. I read the comments before realizing the community
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Should have said Ohio
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That's one way to send the GOP running for the border.
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