this post was submitted on 08 May 2025
275 points (98.9% liked)

Not The Onion

16167 readers
1643 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from...
  2. ...credible sources, with...
  3. ...their original headlines, that...
  4. ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
(page 2) 42 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 14 hours ago

It would be great to see them do this, march around with their "straight pride" bullshit, only to have the LGBTQ+ community cheering them on with signs about the first amendment and acceptance.

Really drill into anyone who hasn't been paying attention, who the good guys and bad guys here are.

Probably a pipe dream since this would 100% be more about hate than acceptance.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Fyre Festival 3? They didn't even have 2 yet

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Being a bit of a pragmatist.

I'm probably as liberal as they come but I'm also older. When I do vote compasses I'm always square in the social and fiscal liberal columns.

That said, I am friends with people from all walks of life and I can tell you the general consensus is that things have swung too far to the left and what we are seeing is a swing back to the right. It's all a pendulum. I've had this conversation with pretty much every one from every background so it's not just a white people thing. People need to understand that people from many different backgrounds being their own flavour of hatred and bigotry to the conversation. Asians are notoriously racist. Black people are notoriously homophobic (my African girlfriend doesn't like my earrings or the fact I wear colourful socks for Christsake).

What truly amazes me is how fast and how hard the pendulum has swung the other direction in America and damn does it not look good. In Canada it's swinging right but far more measured and the hope is not much farther.

Even as progressive as I am my daughter has an after school program called "Girls Inc" and I have thought to myself why don't my sons have a Boys Inc to which the response in my head is it's still a mans world and if I tried to make one I'd be accused of something negative I'm sure so I never pursue it.

I will say right now if the expression is "a rising tide lifts all ships" we have not been paying adequate attention to the ships that are not rising as fast or as much. This is what is causing the pendulum swings IMHO and without addressing the deep underlying and systemic issues it's only going to get worse.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Please be all allies... Please

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Article says they guy putting it on is making an event to celebrate "family values". So, no.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Family values... Like men and women having sex? Just call it "family fest" or something if that's the case

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

This restaurant owner sure sounds Proud.

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›