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DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website

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    Might as well call it "Department of" because justice has no meaning anymore

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    Justice was always fake. Justice is just consequences imposed by the state

    But I guess it was better than just ICE

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      Call it what it is. The Department of Revenge

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        Department of Joe

        Joe who?

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          Ate the onion for about 5 seconds. Then I was like "......wait, what's the source? .....dammit!"

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            Department of Joe

            Joe who?

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            Joe Mama!

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              Department of Jaundice

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              That’s the Oval Office.

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              • theneverfox@pawb.socialT [email protected]

                Justice was always fake. Justice is just consequences imposed by the state

                But I guess it was better than just ICE

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                AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

                "So we can believe the big ones?"

                YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

                "They're not the same at all!"

                YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

                "Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

                MY POINT EXACTLY.

                One of my favorite scenes from Discworld. People make the mistake of treating justice and other such concepts as though they are an inherent part of existence and will spontaneously appear even when nobody chooses to uphold them. Justice is an ideal, one that does not exist in nature and cannot happen on its own. It must be upheld by those in power to exist, but what we have now is a pale shadow of the real thing held captive by the unjust and wielded with bad faith. Even those still acting in our defense are being silenced or overridden by malicious actors higher up the chain.

                At some point we'll need to act if we want that word to continue meaning anything. To use another Discworld quote, "THERE IS NO JUSTICE. THERE'S JUST US."

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                  Ate the onion for about 5 seconds. Then I was like "......wait, what's the source? .....dammit!"

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                  Same here. I hate this time line. At some point TheOnion is going to have write real stories since we can’t tell the difference anymore.

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                  • O [email protected]

                    Might as well call it "Department of" because justice has no meaning anymore

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                    I hear Ministry of Love is available.

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                      Joe Mama!

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                      UP TOP 🤚

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                        Parody is indistinguishable from reality

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                          Same here. I hate this time line. At some point TheOnion is going to have write real stories since we can’t tell the difference anymore.

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                          The next 3.5 years are going to be hard for the onion. It's hard to create satire if every absurd story is reality.

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                            Reminds me that Veep basically decided to end the show because headlines were starting to be more absurd than the jokes they were writing.

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                              Department of Judginess

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                              • Q [email protected]

                                Yeah I ate the onion on that headline.

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                                People keep saying The Onion can’t compete with reality anymore, but every week or two I keep biting.

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                                  Department of whatever J. Stands for in Trump J. D.....wait whatever J stands for in JD!

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                                    People keep saying The Onion can’t compete with reality anymore, but every week or two I keep biting.

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                                    Doesn't that prove the point though? Even absurdist satire seems real because of how absurd reality has been.

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                                      Doesn't that prove the point though? Even absurdist satire seems real because of how absurd reality has been.

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                                      The Onion makes its best social commentary when it initially fools you into thinking it’s real. The point isn’t to be absurd or trick you, it’s to hold a mirror up and make you think.

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                                        So now it is "The Department of ____________ "

                                        ___ = moment of silence

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                                          Department of Johnsons.

                                          Cuz they're all dicks.

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