Obama Birthday Party Guests Play Light-Hearted Game Of 'Pin The Drone On The Middle Eastern Country'

[u/keetmo]

https://babylonbee.com/news/obama-birthday-party-guests-play-light-hearted-game-of-pin-the-drone-on-the-middle-eastern-country

[u/tapdancingintomordor]

The reason this isn’t funny is because Trump droned the shit out of the Middle East as well

Instead you get this kind of partisan satire, while the Onion actually can joke about Obama and drones because we know they're not holding back when it comes to Trump.

[u/IdRatherDieFree → u/tapdancingintomordor]

The Babylon Bee has gone after Trump too. The Onion and the Bee are both mostly partisan. Sometimes they both go after their own.

https://babylonbee.com/news/upping-the-ante-trump-announces-he-also-won-elections-of-1860--1972-2008

[u/tapdancingintomordor → u/IdRatherDieFree]

If you think that mild joke is going after Trump we probably have very different ideas of what that means. And the Onion is a hell of a lot less partisan than BB, it's not even comparable.

[u/IdRatherDieFree → u/tapdancingintomordor]

Obama saying goodbye to his pet drone is incredibly mild too. Trump was literally silenced from Twitter because of his narrative that this article was written around. A lot of other people too. No one has ever been banned for defending Obama's drone strikes.

Here's another:

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-reveals-first-ten-things-he-plans-on-doing-when-hes-reinstated-as-president-in-august

And another:

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-announces-he-is-building-1954-mile-long-trump-hotel-along-mexican-border

And there are plenty of others making fun of the religious love that some people feel towards him.

If you can't see that they're both partisan when the Onion's most famous article of all time is them advocating gun control, then it's because you're just partisan. The Bee is the only one that's written libertarian zingers like:

https://babylonbee.com/news/government-accidentally-shuts-itself-down-with-ban-on-non-essential-businesses

The Onion would never do that.

[u/tapdancingintomordor → u/IdRatherDieFree]

Obama saying goodbye to his pet drone is incredibly mild too.

Just the basic idea that he's got a pet drone is definitely a lot spicier than anything in the Babylon Bee links you posted. Connecting Obama with wars is not the same thing as saying Trump is giving his supporters a border wall by building a hotel. It's just goofy, not actual criticism.

Trump was literally silenced from Twitter because of his narrative that this article was written around.

lol?

If you can't see that they're both partisan when the Onion's most famous article of all time is them advocating gun control, then it's because you're just partisan.

There's an obvious difference between having opinions - that one can disagree with - and being partisan.

[u/IdRatherDieFree → u/tapdancingintomordor]

Just the basic idea that he's got a pet drone is definitely a lot spicier than anything in the Babylon Bee

It's more regular than vanilla.

lol?

Yes? That's what I said.

There's an obvious difference between having opinions - that one can disagree with - and being partisan.

And in this case we're talking about opinions that clearly favor one side over another - which you have.

[u/tapdancingintomordor → u/IdRatherDieFree]

It's more regular than vanilla.

I'm sure there's a point here, but I don't know what it is. How is "Obama got a pet that kills people" similar to "Trump gives his supporters what they want"?

Yes? That's what I said.

"we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence" is quite different from talking about being reinstated.

And in this case we're talking about opinions that clearly favor one side over another - which you have.

And that would be? I mean, do you have any examples of the Onion positioning themselves in partisan party wars?

[u/IdRatherDieFree → u/tapdancingintomordor]

How is "Obama got a pet that kills people" similar to "Trump gives his supporters what they want"?

The different way you phrased these two is hilariously partisan on its own. Exhibit A.

"we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence" is quite different from talking about being reinstated.

They both stem from his claims that he's the rightful winner..... Do you... do you not remember what happened?

And that would be? I mean, do you have any examples of the Onion positioning themselves in partisan party wars?

All I had to do was type in "the onion republican".

https://www.theonion.com/conservatives-panicking-after-every-member-of-republica-1846860454

https://www.theonion.com/report-70-of-republicans-believe-election-hasn-t-happ-1845634259

https://www.theonion.com/republicans-worried-blind-worship-of-trump-overriding-t-1846957120

[u/tapdancingintomordor → u/IdRatherDieFree]

The different way you phrased these two is hilariously partisan on its own. Exhibit A.

No, exhibit A was that you thought that the Babylon Bee article was even remotely similar to the Onion's article.

They both stem from his claims that he's the rightful winner..... Do you... do you not remember what happened?

Do you not read what they write?

All I had to do was type in "the onion republican".

Those make fun of Republicans, yes. That's not what I asked for. This kind of partisan wars: https://babylonbee.com/news/update-fbi-finds-no-incriminating-material-on-hunters-laptop-just-a-400-gigabyte-folder-named-homework

https://babylonbee.com/news/chaos-after-biden-forgets-who-he-put-in-charge-of-alzheimer-research

[u/IdRatherDieFree → u/tapdancingintomordor]

No, exhibit A was that you thought that the Babylon Bee article was even remotely similar to the Onion's article.

No they're polar opposites. One wants to make Obama seem cute, and the other makes Trump look like a lunatic. See how easy it was to carbon copy the way you convey things?

Do you not read what they write?

What?

Those make fun of Republicans, yes. That's not what I asked for. This kind of partisan wars:

You... you think these are somehow different in nature.....? Fucking LOL

You're not just partisan. You're a hack.

Wait... do you actually live in Sweden? You don't even go here? Jesus Christ, I bet you have a warped perception of what a classical liberal is too.

[u/tapdancingintomordor → u/IdRatherDieFree]

No they're polar opposites. One wants to make Obama seem cute, and the other makes Trump look like a lunatic. See how easy it was to carbon copy the way you convey things?

It's really easy when you don't want to make sense.

What?

"Do you not read what they write?"

You... you think these are somehow different in nature.....? Fucking LOL

You're not just partisan. You're a hack.

Both the Onion and Babylon Bee makes fun of Biden's creepyness towards women. Only one of them talks about Biden being demented. For a reason.

[u/IdRatherDieFree → u/tapdancingintomordor]

It's really easy when you don't want to make sense.

You're the pro, I guess.

Both the Onion and Babylon Bee makes fun of Biden's creepyness towards women. Only one of them talks about Biden being demented. For a reason.

Are you saying The Onion won't admit what we all know after watching him speak for 30 seconds?

Why did you not answer my question about Sweden?

[u/tapdancingintomordor → u/IdRatherDieFree]

You're the pro, I guess.

No one would read the Onion article and believe Obama has a pet drone - a "hunter-killer" that is "flying off toward a Yemeni tribal wedding" - would sound cute.

Are you saying The Onion won't admit what we all know after watching him speak for 30 seconds?

I had already figured out that this was the problem, but thanks for the confirmation.

Why did you not answer my question about Sweden?

I didn't see it. Is it relevant? Only to the point that I don't take a stance between Democrats and Republicans because I don't agree with any of them. But in this case it's quite irrelevant, I've been reading the Onion for a long time, I could be living on Mars and it wouldn't change my opinion.