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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 hours ago

Libs before the election: Trump is a fascist! He must be stopped! He'll destroy our democracy!

Libs after the election: Congrats to Trump! We'll be meeting soon to discuss the peaceful exchange of powers and our broadly overlapping interests.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The Babylon Bee is unfunny right wing trash, but the Democrats walked right into this one. You can't tell us Trump is a threat to democracy and then peacefully transfer power to him.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Refusing to peacefully transfer power would be the end of democracy.

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago

I think we might be past that already

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

Tell me, what happened the last time Trump was told to peacefully transfer power?

[–] style99@lemm.ee 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Good old right wing "humor" (punching down on everyone else because they consider everyone else beneath them). We're all going to be seeing a lot of this type of "humor" (lynchings, book burning, singing about how wonderful being dictated to is) in the next 10 years or so.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

The BabylonBee is terrible but it's not a lynching FFS.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 22 points 12 hours ago

From the article:

"It's my responsibility to make sure this tyrannical despot assumes power," Harris told the crowd of supporters after officially conceding the race. "Though he will end freedom itself in this country, imprison anyone who disagrees with him, systematically murder all women, and go door to door kicking everyone's dogs, I promise to make sure there is a peaceful transition of power."

The media hailed Harris's brilliance and the leadership she displayed while conceding to a man who is literally Hitler.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It's called leading through example, because the MAGA cult is so good at following the examples given to them.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 7 points 3 hours ago

A millennia old Arabic saying goes something like: "If you honor the generous, you will own him... but if you honor the ignoble, he will rebel." We all know leading through example is wasted on people like Trump.

[–] zante 2 points 7 hours ago
[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 34 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I hate Babylon Bee, but a broken clock & all that.

Either this situation isn’t as bad as they said it would be during the campaign (which is what Babylon Bee is implying) or it IS as bad as they said it is, and they’re letting it happen anyways.

Either way, they’re spineless fucking liars.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Theres two main reasons not to stop it from happening:

  1. It would make the DNC as bad as the GOP

  2. The people don't really deserve more help, tbh.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

For point 2: What about people who voted for Harris and who will definitely be persecuted under republican domestic policy? What about people in other countries who will suffer and die from republican foreign policy? What about everyone on the planet who will suffer even more from climate change due to republican environmental policy?

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

THE PEOPLE. All of them. THE MAJORITY OF EVERYONE. They chose as a country, as one whole. Imagine if that was you up there and they chose that old piece of dogshit over you, would you be in a generous mood to lay down your life for them?

[–] PhrygianFudge@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Not everyone voted for Orange Mussolini yk

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Only the Majority of them.

[–] fleabomber@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Make sure Joe pardons the fuck out everybody on your way out. Also he should resign if only to fuck with their merch.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Pretty sure genocide joe has been eating ice cream cones for the past year or more.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

So... they are criticizing her for not trying to overthrow democracy? Like trying to pull a coup would have been the only rational, non-hypocritical response here? What a worrying attitude

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

If you were alive in 1930s Europe, would you have said the same thing about Hitler and Mussolini?

Time really is a fucking circle.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

I often wondered how I would have felt if I was alive in the 1920s to 1940s and seen the rise of this shit. I now am confident that I would never have been a fascist, because I sure as hell fucking hate these people right now.

[–] RubicTopaz@lemmy.world 22 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Like trying to pull a coup would have been the only rational, non-hypocritical response here

Yes. What kind of party hands over power to people they know is fascist?

A liberal one, yes. Which is the problem, and why liberalism eventually gives way to fascism when a capitalist state is in decline.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

The real answer is the kind of party that a majority of voters chose a rapist felon over. I don't even want to help them, anymore, I started learning German again just in case I feel like leaving.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Only if you don't believe Donald Trump's own words.

[–] zante 1 points 7 hours ago

Since when did we start believing trump ?

Isn’t he commonly understood to be a pathological liar ?

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 21 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Why is that a worrying attitude?

They’re criticizing her for saying “he’s facist hitler” through the campaign as the sole message, and then when they lose, shrugging and treating it like any other loss. “Oh well, better luck next time!”

Babylon Bee’s point is that the rhetoric doesn’t match the actions. If he was Hitler, then why are you handing him the reigns like this is just any other election? Their implication is that the campaign dramatized his impact and demonized him. They’re right about the criticism but wrong about the reason.

He DOES represent the evils they’ve been espousing, and they are laying down and doing fuck all about it except paving him a clear path. Babylon Bee has managed to accidentally write their most non-partisan headline ever by accident, and a scathing indictment of spineless liberalism.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Why is that a worrying attitude?

Because it seems to be pointed in the direction of a civil war and an end to the US republic

He DOES represent the evils they’ve been espousing, and they are laying down and doing fuck all about it except paving him a clear path.

What do you think should be done instead?

[–] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Be as petty as he was and do everything in their power to sabotage what they can and leave him a mess?

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago

Isn’t it funny that a mere 4 years later, democrats forgot how to cheat and steal an election? /s

God I want to punch everyone who voted for this moron. I really do.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 24 points 17 hours ago

I wish this was the right community to post this. Unfortunately, it more properly belongs in nottheonion

[–] intro@programming.dev 40 points 20 hours ago

That joke title is going to age like the Weimar Republic xD

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 62 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Actually that was a JD Vance quote. Harris kept it more classy.

Either way, he's more of a Mussolini type. Less vision, more opportunism.

[–] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 36 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Fascism through ✨ V I B E S ✨

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 43 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

You joke, but vibes where and are an important part of how fascists took control. They understand that Aristotle was wrong, emotion and symbolism is simply a better form of rhetoric than logic.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Well, it depends what you mean by "better."

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 29 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Rhetoric is just Greek for the means of persuasion.

A more effective means of persuasion is better rhetoric by definition, because determining truth is not the goal, getting them to do what you want is.

But, yes, ideally rhetoric and epistemology would go hand in hand.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I've finally met someone more pedantic than I.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 12 points 18 hours ago

This is what it sounds like when doves cry.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 19 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Let's hope he remains a Mussolini type to his dying day.

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago

Specifically on that one day. I hope he is bedridden until then

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 13 points 18 hours ago

First and only and it looks like Babylon staff didn't even come up with the idea - at the bottom it suggests this was a reader submission.

[–] Clent@lemmy.world 17 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Biden is the one responsible for transferring power. Even right wing satire is full of ignorance. Not that there was ever any doubt.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 8 points 13 hours ago

She literally said this though.

"I spoke with President-elect Trump and congratulated him on his victory. I also told him that we will help him and his team with their transition and that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power."

Source

[–] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 18 hours ago

It was her concession speech though.

[–] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works -3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, so when the other side wins lemmy is suddenly against peaceful transfer of power. Interesting.

[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 7 hours ago

I think it's more a criticism of the Dems. They spent four years saying Trump is the death of America and now they're just going to hand it to him. There's two implications of that:

  1. Trump isn't the enemy they made him out to be.

  2. Or, they just don't care about American democracy.

A long criticism of Dems has been their refusal to treat Trump as the threat he is. He tried to perform a coup and what has happened? Some guy was accused of using fake money and was extra-judicially executed in the street, but perform a coup and life goes on.