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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What's next; banning certain letters from the alphabet, because they can be used for banned texts?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I vote we just ban DeSantis because he’s a dick. Clearly adult content…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

He doesn't seem like much of an adult to me

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Erdoğan unbanned the letters Q, W and X, which can be used for Kurdish texts, in his 2013 reforms, so I think it'd be a bit too soon to re-ban them now already, so that's probably not next.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had to look this up, but it is a fact that certain letters were banned. I should not be so amazed. Back in the 1960's the Greek junta banned the letter Z, because it meant 'he is alive.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_junta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(1969_film) the movie is a fictional, but based on the actual events.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I should not be so amazed.

The one thing that amazed me was that it was Erdoğan of all people who eventually found it politically expedient to lift the ban.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No E because of Estrogen

No T because of Testosterone

No X or Y because of chromosomes

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ron DSanis and Donald Rump approv his mssag.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now without the D for Disney.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

May as well also get rid of G for gender, H for healthcare, I for intersectionality, L for liberal, M for marijuana, N for nonbinary, O for orange, P for progressive, R for radical, S for socialism, U for union, and V for vaccine.

Aaaaa

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You forgot A for Agenda.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

ou r mking his difficul

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can readily understand that someone like Ron would have no idea why anybody would ever use a dictionary. 😅

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The most confusing thing about dictionaries is why are they so torn on the topic of bridges?

My mom always has an “unabridged” version but mine is a regular dictionary complete with the word “bridge”.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That joke is a bridge too far! 🙄

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There's a lot of smut in the Bible.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean the incest, beastiality, rape, and obsession with virginity would be considered ban worthy?!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Matricide patricide infanticide ..... Its got all the sides.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not to mention all the genocide.

[–] HikingVet 10 points 1 year ago

Other places have gone after the bible where laws like this are in place.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is why they added exceptions for it after people got it removed.

[–] HikingVet 6 points 1 year ago

Maybe they go after all Christian books ,you know the ones praising the glory of Yahweh, which is just a semitic war god (if you pay attention to history).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Once when I was a kid, our pastor gave a sermon. Something about lions.

But he mixed up how to spell lions. He was old. So all the Bible verses he used were actually about loins.

That was a funny lesson and complete waste of time.

But there are a lot of loins in the King James Version

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I remember that someone actually challenged the bible because of that.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why does he always look like he just got done crying?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Have you seen his poll numbers?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

He also looks like both Joe Dirt's and Ricky's (Trailer Park Boys) dad. How fitting for a Floridaman.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does Desantis cope with the internet? Is it banned in Florida too?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Still here. For now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought this was an onion article? Can someone confirm if this is satire? It doesn’t seem like a satire site but I still thought I would check. Because if not… I don’t even know what to say. I don’t even know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I mean it’s kinda satire in a way. Only one school district is interpreting the law this copiously. The others don’t seem to have trouble understanding the spirit of the law.