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SorellaLaBefana

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8. Well, one must always bear in mind that The Onion is, and has been for a number of years:

Mon Apr 14, 2025, 07:57 AM

Apr 2025

"America's Finest News Source"

As is explicitly stated on its masthead, so therefore clearly must be true else They would not allow such a claim to be made.

Also recall that the motto of Allium cepa (the common cultivar of the widely consumed bulbous vegetable—the onion) is Tu stultus es—You [familiar] are dumb/stupid—which has also proven to be true: especially when Onion articles are quoted on RW News.

I, myself, have, of course, never mistaken such a quotation as anything other than satire. Honestly—Never Ever. Cross my heart on this Holy Monday

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Well, one must always bear in mind that The Onion is, and has been for a number of years: SorellaLaBefana Apr 2025 #8