NEW YORK—Featuring nearly identical video footage in two separate $25 million ad buys, the Donald Trump and Kamala Harris campaigns both debuted new commercials Tuesday that attempt to win support for their respective candidates with a supercut of Trump’s most racist comments. The two ads—which reports confirmed would air continuously until Nov. 5—showcase clips of […]
This might end up being one of those times where the onion has to print a retraction because they predicted the future again.
I ate the onion; thought I already had heard these exact ads. I definitely have heard an ad attacking a Democrat and wondered why they were playing dark and thunderous tones over all the good things the Dem voted for.
I did too, even told someone in the room with me about it before realizing it was the onion, they weren’t even surprised
I will eat my hat if Joe Biden wins because The Onion Endorses Joe Biden for president
Yeah. I feel bad for shows like Southpark. Its a bit tough to parody real life.
I don’t feel bad for south park, they’ve caused a fair amount of damage
How so?
Climate change denial. That’s the biggest thing for me: they apologized, but it took fifteen years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManBearPig
I never jived much with the general nihilism and both/all sides-ism I felt from it, which is probably unfair given it’s meant to be a crass comedy.
Not the original commenter, but my guess is because—supposedly—they inspired “kick a ginger day.” (Wikipedia) They also pissed off a lot of religious folk by making fun of the absurd beliefs held by various mainstream religions, but I imagine the only people who would take offense to that would be members of said religions who take themselves a bit too seriously.
On the other hand…
A lot of their episodes are comedic criticisms of the corrupt institutions in the United States, and they do a good job demonstrating the consequences to people who would otherwise be politically apathetic. But then again, a bunch of people took the wrong messages away and ended up being inspired by Eric Cartman.
It’s a mixed bag, but in my opinion, the show has probably done more good than harm.
Besides of the whole “kick a ginger day” thing, they also made “Death Camp of Tolerance”, and bigots to this day are using arguments from it to support whatever movement they came up with to dismantle progressivism in the name of “fairness and balancedness”, which usually boils down to painting progressives as unreasonable radicals (as their views are not always held by others, the whole “why you don’t tolerate intolerance?” stuff, etc.), and bigots as more reasonable than they actually are as long as they have some “reason” behind their bigotry.
Also an episode of South Park is currently used by transhpobes to strip trans people of their rights, because “what if a man will pretend to be a trans woman”.
I’m confused… how? They never promoted Trump in any capacity (if anything, they made him look worse)