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CEO Warns That No Student Involved In Protests Will Ever Be Hired At Genocide Inc. (www.theonion.com)

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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 40 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It was supposed to be a joke referring to the fact that The Onion used to use fake company Global Tetrahedron for this sort of article, but a bunch of fans of The Onion got together and formed a company called Global Tetrahedron and bought The Onion while it was recently being sold off.

So, the joke was that they had to invent Genocide, Inc. to replace it.

I don’t think people here got the joke.

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

While I knew about the above I still didn't really get your joke. Calling the fake company Genocide Inc. is kind of integral to their joke, in that the students are protesting against a genocide. If the headline was about Global Tetrahedron not hiring protesters (even before the real one existed) it wouldn't really make much sense.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but my joke made sense in context

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I got the joke. It was good.