Florida Students Given Lifelike Dolls To Simulate Responsibility Of Owning Slave

https://www.theonion.com/florida-students-given-lifelike-dolls-to-simulate-respo-1850688345?

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seahorse@midwest.social · 44 pts · 3y (1 reply)

The Onion is pulling no punches lately.

Tolstoshev@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 3y

Their pitch room must be running 24/7 with all the material lately.

mineralfellow@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 3y

Took me a minute to realize it was the Onion.

PeleSpirit@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 3y (2 replies)
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Neato@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Yep. It's the strategy to ensure people remain desperate and too afraid to do anything.

Can_you_change_your_username@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y

How long until Florida reintroduces "apprenticeship programs" to deal with the shortage of agriculture workers their immigration policy has created.

RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 3y

My heart froze for a second when I thought I saw nottheonion and I'm glad I was wrong

Nollij@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Somehow, this feels like less of a joke than the real events it's based on.

Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3y

Onion used to do satire. Now it's just a prediction machine.

qwet@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y

This hurt my soul a little bit.

4am@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 3y

Listen, I love The Onion but don’t give ‘em ideas, man…

be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y

I'm ever so slightly disappointed that they didn't work in the recent statement about teaching the slaves "skills" to benefit them.