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Missouri Executes Man Despite Questions About Evidence (theonion.com)

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ouch. The Onion: this is effectively just reporting on real events…

[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is their section called "American Voices" where the story is a real, actual event that happened but commentated on by satirical representations of Americans.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

And it's always those same people

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's not always the same three people shown here, but yeah, they pull from a very small pool of at least six fictional people.

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

The occupation and names I think are random and usually a joke, too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's usually the same people in real life too.