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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I would say pre 2016 political jokes was at one level, where the onion could make jokes that was not just an echo of reality.

Somewhere after that we crossed the political joke event horizon, and now we live in bizarro world, where many news items could have been the onion jokes.