• Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    "We couldn't corroborate an event that would have even witnessed by hundreds of millions of people had it occurred, mostly because nobody on our staff an read or speak a language used by 1.5 billion people."

    • richietozier4 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Thesis: China ran out of coal

      Antithesis: there were no blackouts

      Synthesis: Xi forced Uyghurs to run in hamster wheels to generate enough power for all of China

      • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        fake news. the average ethnically uighur person is far too large to fit on a hamster wheel

        • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          excuse you sweaty, but in chyna, they achktually have giant hamsters the size of multistory buildings called "kaiju" which means capybara in asian, okay?

          :capybara-theorist:

          they fit all the uighurs into kaiju-hamster-wheels and force them to run for days, sometimes even weeks, until they die of exhaustion! it is genocide

    • VILenin [he/him]M
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      4 years ago

      Ackshually ur brainwashed by the see see pee

  • Pastaguini [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Meanwhile just months ago we irrefutably had massive rolling blackouts in Texas that killed dozens of people. This is pure projection.

  • Vostok [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    "Yeah, we realised actually it's a lot easier to just write about events that you wished were happening than going to the trouble of actually investigating stuff and reporting real things, so we've decided we're just gonna do that from now on"

    • Wogre [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      Me changing majors from journalism to creative writing like

  • RealAssHistoryHours [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    There needs to be some type of accountability for willfully reporting bullshit. These hack "journalists" have brain poisoned an entire generation of people.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    4 years ago

    A widely shared online article listed planned blackouts by the Shanghai State Grid for different parts of Shanghai on Dec. 22.

    The Onion has more integrity