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IDF Soldier Recounts Harrowing, Heroic War Story Of Killing 8-Month-Old Child (www.theonion.com)

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[+] [email protected] -31 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Yes, but it's not funny now, so why is someone posting it? It's incredibly poor taste .

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago

Gallows humor. It's sad that the general events are real but the mocking way the article and headline are written allows the reader to chuckle through the horror.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

How is it in poor taste? Just because it's real? The faux empathy for the IDF is literally the joke. It's saying "killing babies bad". What part of that do you have an issue with?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes but something happened after this article was written, why haven't the time lords gone back and unmade the article so I don't have to feel uncomfortable about the fact that this has all been going on for a long time and the world has been silent about it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

They tried

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It’s not meant to be funny. It’s meant to be shocking and lead your outrage in a quest to disprove the core tenet, only to be forced to confront the awful element/actual reality the article was satirizing.

The “oooof that’s hits close to home” reaction is the entire point