It is very real but journalism hasn't quite evolved to state facts yet. They're still at the gaslighting stage of making us think our unhappiness is the result of our own poor choices and shortcomings, and that everyone else is happy except for us.

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OtakuAltair@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 2y

Yeah Onion hasn't been doing much satire recently. Just real news

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ArugulaZ@kbin.social · 60 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Oh God, that is so painfully true. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be longingly caressing this rope without actually tying it into a noose.

Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I'll sit next to you and load then unload my pistol.

hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Hold my beer while I jump off that bridge and then... oh I break the combo.

jballs@sh.itjust.works · 49 pts · 2y

“You hear this nonsense such as, ‘people don’t want to work anymore,’” said Schweitzer while puffing on his pipe. “Can you blame them? When boomers were young, they could pay for college flipping burgers, buy a house on a single salary, and retire with a pension. Now people can’t afford to even rent. The average American is being crushed under a debt burden with no prospect of relief. Our political system is breaking down, and we’re headed toward climate disaster. It’s only natural for people to be walking around secretly wishing a piano would fall on them.”

Wtf I thought this was supposed to be a satire article.

Ibaudia@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 2y

That's not all that unrealistic lol

Got_Bent@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Ever notice that the only people who relentlessly seek out immortality are the absurdly wealthy who already live a life of the entire world being at their beck and call for every whim?

The rest of us get tired of licking the shoe leather and are all like, "It's my time? Phew! Finally!"

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 2y

i mean i wouldn't mind immortality provided i straight up can't be killed, i'd like to see the bougies defend against that

Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee · 24 pts · 2y (1 reply)

The satirical part is that a major news org would say this out loud.

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glowie@h4x0r.host · 21 pts · 2y (9 replies)

It me

BaroqueInMind@kbin.social · 11 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Same.

Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

me too, thanks.

tsonfeir@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Also

MrShankles@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 2y

I don't want others to suffer a trauma like the ones I carry. Guess I'll go get Taco Bell instead of {insert dark thoughts}

MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 2y

Going through cancer treatment the last couple of years, doctors often asked me if I was feeling suicidal, I never was, but this would have been a correct answer most days.

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Zorque@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

We be

MrShankles@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 2y

Comrade

TheBat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

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DickFiasco@lemm.ee · 17 pts · 2y

We've reached some kind of milestone where satire and reality have converged to a single line. Also, the cover photo of a bunch of smiling professionals is the real chef's kiss.

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BleakBluets@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y (1 reply)

"As the Footsteps Die Out Forever" by Catch 22. Genre is ska punk. It's about the loss of a family member.

awnery@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

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jennwiththesea@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

Hurt, the cover by Johnny Cash

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Rabbit in Your Headlights by Unkle

Something I Can Never Have, NIN

BaroqueInMind@kbin.social · 7 pts · 2y

Literally any 16th century nocturne.

MMNT@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Ben Howard - Esmerelda, anything from Portishead, Red House Painters, Sofa Surfers

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burgers@toast.ooo · 4 pts · 2y

tv on the radio - blind

motion picture soundtrack - radiohead

entire discography of godspeed you black emperor but e.g. dead flag blues

pretty much anything grizzly bear did before 2007 but e.g. he hit me

MidRomney@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

This is art/prog/jazz rock molded to perfection:

https://youtu.be/hCU_lScCpAM?si=6q-LbBsj1imw008_

Check out this song by them but feel free to listen to their entire albums. Start with Land Animal, Say So, or You Know What They Mean if you like the above song.

kakes@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Further - VNV Nation

Monument@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 2y

I would also submit the vocal version of Forsaken to this list.

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snooggums@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I'm going to need to google this to figure out which part if the song name and which part is the band.

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ArugulaZ@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I'm not lighting a fuse with this, am I? O_O;

Anyway, Routine by Steven Wilson and Losing It by Rush are two big candidates. Remove all sharp objects from the immediate vicinity before you listen to them.

Actually, forget that. Songs about naval disasters (The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot, At the Harbor by Renaissance, The Wreck of the Hesperus by Procol Harum) are somber in tone but won't make you feel despondent afterward. They're like rye bread... a little rough and dark, but hearty and filling and ultimately cleansing in the end.

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hitmyspot@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y

Anything by Michael Buble.

CuttingBoard@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y

The Myth is Real Let's Eat - Jello Biafra and Nomeansno

Senseless@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y

Speedy Ortiz - No below

Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y

An Introduction To The Album by The Hotelier

Fal@yiffit.net · 2 pts · 2y

https://youtu.be/OADhKjNz8mI?si=NYLMFR14Ma0aSaj3

lingh0e@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

The entirety of Let It Come Down by Spiritualized. It's an album all about the apathy, misery, bliss and beauty that accompanies heroin addiction. It's painfully beautiful music.

RandomStickman@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y

The Beths in general for me lately. I like Expert in a Dying Field, Scilence in Golden, and Knees Deep. But their older stuff are great too.

einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GtZbD_Yk3Ys&pp=ygUcdGhpcmQgZXllIGJsaW5kIHNsb3cgbW90aW9uIA%3D%3D

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synae@lemmy.sdf.org · -1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

This album, but specifically the second song if you have to pick only one

https://open.spotify.com/album/4zyz5638QQykrPQcmpcrsa?si=PfRXD90GS2SdSLdGER94OQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4zyz5638QQykrPQcmpcrsa

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lori@cambrian.social · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

@ZeroCool Is that an Onion-like website?

ZeroCool@feddit.ch · 12 pts · 2y

Yes, The Hard Times is a satire website that usually focuses on music. They also operate Hard-Drive.net which focuses on videogame and tech satire.

Drusas@kbin.social · 8 pts · 2y

Too real.

MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com · -6 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Oh the organization that called government torture "enhanced interrogation".

The APA could be fire bombed, and I would have a flat affect.

SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Getting a strong antivax vibe from this comment even though I have no clue what you're talking about. Care to explain enhanced interrogation for me please?

AltheaHunter@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 2y

I don't know the exact connection to tbe APA (they probably made a statement?), but "enhanced interrogation techniques" is what the Bush 2 administration called the torture they used on prisoners during the War on Terror & Iraq War.

Serdan@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y

It was how USA justified torture twenty years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_interrogation_techniques