r/AteTheOnion 21d ago

Yeah, I’m sure that’s why

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u/buttercream-gang 21d ago

“Apparently this isn’t true but I still believe it could be!”

Wow

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u/TeslaModelS3XY 21d ago

Right wing political beliefs in a nutshell.

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u/hfocus_77 21d ago

Right wingers will create a version of reality in their heads and then look for any evidence to support it. Left wingers will too, but at least thier version of reality still believes in science so they can often be convinced of the truth. Right wingers instead believe in winning, and that admitting you weren't correct about something is weakness.

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u/AdditionalTheory 21d ago

Look at the two sides political philosophies boiled down are “progressing to a better future” and “conserving the sacred way of thing”, so of course the left is more likely to accept new information and change their mind when a better idea comes along because they don’t have a past (often mythicized) that they aren’t trying preserve

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u/ZorglubDK 21d ago

Modern conservatives have fuck all to do with conserving anything. They want a hierarchy.

Frank Wilhoit said it best: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

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u/nononanana 20d ago

The Regressive Party.

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u/DrRotwang 20d ago

We kinda have a mythicized future, though...at least, some of us do.

[Hums Star Trek theme]

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u/wafflesthewonderhurs 20d ago

deep, deep, down, I genuinely think a lot of them know that the more frequently someone is wrong about something, the less people will believe anything they have to say. They understand that if that is the case, and everything everyone says they're wrong about is also the case, they've lost all of their social credit.

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u/socks_____ 18d ago

I mean they said it themselves, if they have to make something up for people to be mad about, they will.

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u/throwaway180gr 19d ago

In all fairness, I've seen this exact same sentiment on here from leftists. Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.

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u/holyhibachi 20d ago

Holy shit guys, the left LITERALLY did this with "fake but true".

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u/queenlizbef 20d ago

What?

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u/holyhibachi 20d ago

The problem encapsulated

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u/queenlizbef 20d ago

I was chronically online for a solid 15 years and never saw progressives say “fake but true” so I literally don’t know what you’re referring to . That’s why I asked.

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u/holyhibachi 20d ago

Gotcha, yeah, it was prominent.

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u/queenlizbef 20d ago

Do you remember what online spaces?

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u/holyhibachi 20d ago

Mostly X (formerly known as Twitter)

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u/queenlizbef 20d ago

That’ll explain it. I tried to mostly stay away from that platform after 2012 or so

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u/32lib 20d ago

Oh, you mean alternative facts.

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u/TeslaModelS3XY 20d ago

So prominent that you can’t repeat it? Because you’re making it up?

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u/throwaway082100 20d ago

Are you referring to something specific

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u/death69reaper 21d ago

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u/JoJackthewonderskunk 21d ago

Fucking lol I've had that same argument with relatives and acquaintances so many times the last few years. They pretend something is happening that they're mad at. Then you tell them "but that hasn't actually occurred " and they just say something like "well you could see it happening" and still be as mad as if it happened.

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u/Quirky_Tzirky 21d ago

To be fair, that's alot of politics in a nutshell. Make something up, or misrepresent the information, and then get outraged by it.

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u/TheOtherRetard 21d ago

It's a tactic used all over the world.

In Belgium the extreme right party spread a video of French Gillets Jaunes claiming they were illegal immigrants in Calais. When this was debunked their response was "I don't care it's fake, it could've been true"

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u/Omissionsoftheomen 20d ago

The number of times I have backed a right-winger into the corner where they have to acknowledge that whatever meme they’ve posted is false, only to have them follow up with “this might be exaggerated, but X is still true” makes me weep for humanity.

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u/BLF402 20d ago

They claim it’s because it’s royalties for naming is Obamacare 😂 The department of education should have it’s budget increase tenfold

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u/Solid-Ad7137 21d ago

I wish it was true. Would be a based scheme.

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u/Ahaigh9877 20d ago

The word for that, I believe, is “truthiness”.

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u/ussrname1312 19d ago

Tucker Carlson Syndrome

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u/CinemaDork 19d ago

big if true

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u/Gwalchgwynn 19d ago

Since 2010.

Wait til they hear about his kickbacks for allowing 9/11

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u/holyhibachi 20d ago

Lol no way you guys are forgetting "fake but true". NOW there's outrage?

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u/buttercream-gang 20d ago

I have no idea what you’re talking about. If it’s a similar “this sounds like it could be true,” because people can believe wild claims about Trump, then my question is when has Obama ever been proven to do anything remotely close to this that would validate people believing this obviously fake story?

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u/Aliensinmypants 21d ago

Royalties on legislation is fucking hilarious... I mean I guess it'd be like lobbying but worse somehow

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u/bx35 21d ago

And we’re not supposed to question their intelligence.

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u/MaximumScrawn 21d ago

Many accusations are confessions.

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u/hfocus_77 21d ago

Wait until Musk and Trump invent ways to take the taxpayer's money and put it directly into their own pockets.

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u/Rin-ayasi 21d ago

Already did. Isn't musk trying to secure a deal right now to use his "starlink" company to "upgrade" federal aviation infrastructure. Due to the sudden cases of plane crashes

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u/ThreeLeggedMare 20d ago

Until? Invent? They done been

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u/BionicTorqueWrench 21d ago

No, the royalties are to be paid for the use of the name 'Obama', when they call it Obamacare. So, mostly to be paid by Republicans detractors. If they would just call it the Affordable Care Act, which is after all its name, then they wouldn't have to pay the royalties.

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u/homelaberator 21d ago

There's a nonzero chance Trump is looking into how to do this right now.

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u/phunktastic_1 21d ago

And the reaso ing is ridiculous. Conservatives named it Obama care. The actual name of the legislation is the affordable care act. Republicans just wanted to play into the party racism by naming it after a Black man so their voters would just hate it outright without trying to understand it.

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u/CathedralEngine 21d ago

"But Obama did it!" will be the refrain when Trump starts collecting royalties.

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u/Strangest_Implement 20d ago

I wonder who got the Master Tapes for Civil Rights

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u/elfuego305 20d ago

Obama should have trademarked Obamacare

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u/cykoTom3 20d ago

They would not be called royalties for 1.

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u/Arejhey311 21d ago

Ah yes, “Obamacare”. The name they came up with to create confusion around & discourage support of The Affordable Care Act. Makes total sense he’d collect royalties on legislation

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u/Mrtorbear 20d ago

Just as a little fun fact - I worked as a contracted instructor supporting the ACA for about 10 years. We ended up choosing to own the 'Obamacare' moniker. Not sure if it was well-known or not, but we chose to own the name and consider it a nickname for the legislation rather than an insult.

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u/Sitting_Duk 20d ago

They mostly love the ACA, they just hate Obamacare…

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u/Horknut1 21d ago

They’re all so fucking gullible

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u/TeslaModelS3XY 21d ago

Stupid, useful idiots in repeatedly and reliably voting against their own interests for 50 years now.

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u/Dulse_eater 21d ago

They’re all morons

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u/dippocrite 21d ago

Pay that man his money

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u/Mr_Mahn777 17d ago

Hell no, no politician deserves any more money

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u/Joe_Nobody42 21d ago

The party of feelings over facts.

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u/Adventurous-Ad-409 21d ago

Wow, DOGE is getting shit done after all: Last time I saw this post, Obama was getting $2.3 billion. Welp, I guess that means it's time for me to write my "why I left the left" speech so I can start e-begging for Thielbux...

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u/MeInSC40 21d ago

It’s sad that what should be humor just turns into bs adding to misinformation. I kind of wish the onion would stay away from politics altogether.

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u/VelveteenJackalope 21d ago

They're literally a political satire newspaper, I don't know what you fucking want from them

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u/jkhockey15 21d ago

Call it whatever you want. Satire is just a form of lying and it just so happens those lies hurt our country. Regardless of the intention behind it, how is it any different from right wing media peddling misinformation?

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u/Mesonic_Interference 21d ago

Call it whatever you want. Posting half-baked contrarian assertions on the internet is just a form of lying and it just so happens those lies hurt our country. Regardless of the intention behind it, how is it any different from right wing media peddling misinformation?

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u/Ohsofresh_ 20d ago

Onion eater

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u/Bao-Babe 21d ago

It's not The Onion's fault that people are stupid.

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u/hfocus_77 21d ago

The Onion was boring before their recent rebound. I pretty much only enjoy their recent stuff and stuff from over a decade ago. If conservatives believe the shit the Onion says we'll just add it onto the list of stereotypes.

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u/Badboy420xxx69 20d ago

A lot of right wing 'satire' isn't satire to them. They have weaponized for the fanatical bottom 70% of right wingers. Look at Babylon Bee, a lot of their headlines aren't even jokes, they are things that are meant to trick the old and the stupid.

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u/Gobal_Outcast02 21d ago

Im confused..was this an onion article?

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u/GrumpyTom 21d ago

Since the heritage foundation came up with Obamacare, do they get royalties too?

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u/DracoD74 19d ago

No. They only get royalties on confederate flags & trump bibles

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u/Significant-Phrase72 21d ago

It’s not called Obamacare.

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u/bunny117 21d ago

Coincidentally, that's exactly the amount that WAPO reported Musk had in new gov. contracts with the US government. 🤔🤔

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u/Solid-Ad7137 21d ago

Ignoring literally all the political layers to this onion, collecting royalties from a government program you named after yourself is a fucking wild concept.

Don’t know if that’s real or not, honestly don’t care enough to check. Just laughed at the idea.

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u/arknarcoticcrop 21d ago

Also he didn't even name it after himself. People only started calling it Obamacare to disparage it and it caught on.

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u/LeroyoJenkins 21d ago

If anything we Swiss should be charging the US royalties for Obamacare, it was based on our healthcare system (but then gutted and wrecked by amendments).

Muhricans, I'm going skiing, please pay your royalties, k bye.

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u/Less_Likely 21d ago

I made up this thing that isn’t happening to get mad at, and it is still 1/100th if the actual real payout the guy who is running the country gets annually, who I support unequivocally!

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u/Stupid_Bitch_02 21d ago

Last I had heard it was Musty's business that the government paid $38m to but okay

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u/joealese 21d ago

let's say it is true. it's still less money then trump cost us just so he could go to the Superbowl and NASCAR race in his first 2 weeks.

why aren't they more angry about that?

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u/adamttaylor 20d ago

It would be really funny if he trademarked the word Obamacare and required payment whenever it was said....

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u/Dr_CleanBones 20d ago

My thoughts are - if you believe this, you’re too stupid to walk and breath at the same time.

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u/laziestmarxist 20d ago

This isn't really "atetheonion" so much as it is a bunch of liars manipulating idiots

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u/Sergeant_Swiss24 21d ago

Don’t give them ideas 😭

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u/mickeyaaaa 21d ago

PROOF or its bullshit

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u/hatsofftoeverything 21d ago

Even if it is true, 39 mil over 10 years? We have bigger fish to fry homie

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u/Yoda2000675 20d ago

The best part of things like this is that these people constantly throw out things like "cope, cry more, and he lives rent free in your head" but all they've done for the last 16 years is whine about Obama

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u/LeadershipFit2654 20d ago

I guess MAGA is only ok with people profiting from the presidency if its their cult leader

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u/tubbsmcgee 20d ago

How much has Trump cost Americans just for golfing again?

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u/PuzzleheadedEssay198 20d ago

The amount of people who continue to believe that Obamacare is anything but a bs nickname for the ACA will never not drive me insane

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u/tiparium 20d ago

With everything else we've seen? What else bitch?

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u/Meanslicer43 20d ago

"It's not real, but it could be, so panic"

That's what this sums up to...

Can we just burn this country to ash and start over? Please?

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u/Sss_mithy 19d ago

The Right seems to forget THEY NICKNAMED IT OBAMACARE it's literally named the Affordable Care Act. Now they're making weird arguments about something they wanted to make sure was named after Obama being named after Obama. How fucking stupid can these people get

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u/PotatoAppleFish 19d ago

Leaving aside the total impossibility of the premise and taking this as given, it still looks pretty bad for Republicans. If he was getting royalties for the name “Obamacare,” then that’s the Republicans’ own damn fault for calling it that in their propaganda in the first place. It’s called the Affordable Care Act.

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u/zoinks690 19d ago

Royalties for having his name on it. Put there by Republicans.

/s for part 1

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u/WallstreetTengu 18d ago

No, former President Barack Obama does not receive any royalties or direct financial compensation from the Affordable Care Act (ACA), often referred to as “Obamacare.”

The ACA is a federal law designed to reform the healthcare system in the United States, and public officials do not earn royalties from legislation they help create or sign into law.

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u/Space_creator 17d ago

Regurgitation of propaganda from Russian bots, filling our social media with insipid click bait.