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thenewgreen  ·  4330 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The poor, poor rich of the Wall Street Journal

Yeah, this is pretty weak: I think syncretic tagged this appropriately. It's hard to believe this isn't parody.





syncretic  ·  4330 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, to be fair, I tagged it as #politics, #nottheonion is a community tag. I laughed when I noticed it, though.

b_b  ·  4330 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I tagged it that, but I didn't come up with it. As far as I can tell, thenewgreen did months ago. I've seen posts from time to time with that tag, and I think it fits so perfectly some places.

thenewgreen  ·  4330 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think it's a cliffelam innovation.

b_b  ·  4330 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This is the oldest post I see with the tag. Its not a community tag, so...

thenewgreen  ·  4330 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I see what happened, I was riffing on this post by cliffelam. He started posting anything that was so ridiculous that it seemed like parody under #theonion and I mistakenly started #nottheonion, inspired by his tag.

cliffelam  ·  4330 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Maybe #nottheonion is a more useful tag for political/social stuff given the craziness we enjoy.

-XC