Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: super70s Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Once Again, the Babylon Bee Predicts the Future Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 17:04:12 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 60 Message-ID: References: <9ICdnTY9o730Esr7nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@giganews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 00:04:13 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b84acf9325788ebd0478826908b0d8d3"; logging-data="1977266"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18sF+XqOauuYtc6g2t9AGoaRRvNVLQ3mAE=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:vEOj3TxgbpOSR6MWr8hg5YTKG20= Bytes: 3239 On 2024-05-30 21:03:08 +0000, Adam H. Kerman said: > super70s wrote: >> On 2024-05-30 18:13:43 +0000, The Horny Goat said: >>> Wed, 29 May 2024 21:04:05 -0500, super70s wrote: > >>>> You don't think anyone other than rock-ribbed wingnuts is going to >>>> follow a link to the Babble-On Bee do you. > >>> I occasionally go there when I have a yen for satire - but I certainly >>> wouldn't consider it news. > >>> Hopefully nobody else does either - it's not quite Jonathan Swift but >>> when it's good it's extremely good satire. > >> It's a rip of The Onion for the rightwing audience. > > Could you please just shut the fuck up and stopping digging your hole > deeper? Well look who's here, the self-proclaimed know-it-all of r.a.t. And he's bursting a vein again. > They are specifically Protestant Christian. They satirize > church and their own religious beliefs too. "Right wing" is a lame > description. They are religious Christians with conservative politics. > > But mostly, they are comic writers. They are trying to be entertaining > and to land their jokes. But you wouldn't understand comedy if an anvil > fell on your head. "Religious Christians," huh. The most flippant and iconclastic bunch of "religious Christians" I've ever seen. >> But in The Onion's defense how could they play to that audience when >> 90% of the people who do stupid stuff worth parodying in the real world >> are on the right. > > I know you are stupid. Do you have to keep proving it? Jump up my ass you pompous jerk. > I have nothing in common with the writers. I still read their stuff. Must have a hard time keeping yourself occupied then. > They make me smile. It's funny because they fully commit to the comedy. And you're easily entertained apparently. > Comedy first, last, and always. I just don't care about the politics of > the writers. That's because you're a pretentious simpleton. > It's simply not for humorless gits like you. Oh I'm "humorless" because I don't care to read a rightwing rip-off of The Onion.