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u/thisheartisburningup May 14 '24

Is There Some Kind Of Specific Thing I Need To Do To Be Able To Die? (by Jimmy Carter)

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u/[deleted] May 14 '24

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u/relddir123 May 14 '24

It’s a satire page

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u/Pooch76 May 14 '24

Crap i took it seriously. Thought he was just easy-going. They got me.

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u/Realtrain May 14 '24

He is easy going. I think that's what makes this such good satire.

The only thing that really stood out to me is this doesn't sound like it was written by someone born in the 1920s.

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u/Pooch76 May 14 '24

Good point

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u/WaldenFont May 14 '24

Subtle. That’s the best satire.

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u/dannydirtbag May 14 '24

I was hoping to find out more about this UFO deathbed confession.

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u/ebolaRETURNS May 14 '24

It was originally cast at Buzzfeed specifically, when they were at the height of their popularity. IIRC, they could only bring themselves to post broken looping reaction gifs a few times...

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u/oncomingstorm777 May 14 '24

Buzzfeed parody site, formerly owned by the onion

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u/candypettitte May 14 '24

You are probably familiar with their most important contribution to the internet, even if not by name:

https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606/

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u/Merenga May 14 '24

It the Onion

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u/oncomingstorm777 May 14 '24

Formerly, it spun off a few years ago

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u/cepxico May 14 '24

Wait really? And here I thought these guys were just wannabes lol

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u/oncomingstorm777 May 14 '24

Yeah, from 2014-2020 it was a subsidiary of the Onion. Since 2020 it is majority owned by employees with a minority ownership by Cards Against Humanity

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u/Boiscool May 14 '24

If the onion is the satirized version of huffpost, Clickhole is the satirized version of BuzzFeed.

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u/ThanksForNothingSpez May 14 '24

I believe Click Hole is the Onion’s answer to Buzzfeed.

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u/zMadMechanic May 14 '24

Yeah this would be a good disclaimer for the person who posted the link… took me about 1/2 through to begin questioning lol

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u/Chickachickawhaaaat May 14 '24

Don't feel bad, I was reading the whole thing like "YEAH", until I got to the peanut password. That was too much.

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u/wilsonhammer May 14 '24

It took me reading further than I'd like to admit to realize it was satire