this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2026
430 points (98.9% liked)

Not The Onion

22475 readers
476 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from...
  2. ...credible sources, with...
  3. ...their original headlines, that...
  4. ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, ableist, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] tal@lemmy.today 52 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The February post said Patel’s “retard rating just went to all time highs. Congratulations Kash.”

Patel thought the post warranted a reply, and pressured agents to “continuously” respond with the bureau’s “record year results.”

I kind of feel that maybe, instead of passing laws to keep children off social media because they can't handle it, we should be focusing on keeping certain adults off because they can't handle it.

I'm fairly confident that a typical fifteen-year-old is more able to deal with social media comments than this.

EDIT: More seriously, though, maybe institutionalize that organizations should have a dedicated public relations team handle social media and not have leaders do so.

EDIT2: I remember reading through FOIA logs of phone messages for J. Edgar Hoover from back when he was running the FBI. The overwhelming majority were from people who were drunk or crackpots. At that point in time, we understood that there should be a secretary interfacing with said calls and screening them, where the leader never even sees the calls unless they're something actually significant and relevant. I feel like maybe organizational standards have not kept up with technology.

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You say that, but I don't know if I find that much more comforting than actually having all these lunatics unmask themselves so brazenly, it's actually kind of refreshing, honestly.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

same, i like it when my enemies feel comfortable enough to show their true colors

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago

It’s helpful if they ever aren’t in power, but I worry they have dropped the mask because they have the system rigged enough to never face consequences.