AUSTIN, TX—A star who has experienced a meteoric rise in right-wing circles, 28-year-old conservative phenom Mason Finley is known solely for wearing a Nazi armband and crying, sources confirmed Tuesday. “Finley amassed millions of conservative viewers on his Discord channel, where the up-and-coming young GOP figure…
  • Andy@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    eh… this is kind of weak for the Onion.

    This feels like Babylon Bee-level satire.

    It’s not a bad concept, it’s just that it’s more of a starting idea. It’s not really formatted effectively as a parody news article.

      • Andy@slrpnk.netEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        That’s a very fair reason. I hope they’re successful. I think very little of the owners of the site.

        It’s funny that they have an ongoing joke that the owners of the site are evil, billionaire racists, and in real life the site is owned by G/O Media, which seems to have bought up so much of the internet’s interesting websites and enshitified them.