The funniest thing about them is that they use a bee as a mascot, since bees put out sweet stuff as opposed to bitter. Also they die after delivering their venom.
Seems like a wasp would have been a better representation. Yeah, WASPs definitely work for them.
The puns were appreciated and clever. Lol.
I only recently found out the Babylon bee was conservative. The way most of their jokes read I thought it was making fun of conservative news because many of the headlines and messages were so close to what I see in real conservative news- I thought the joke was in spoofing “Fox” type news and their viewers. Then I saw some of their stuff that clearly poked fun at liberal politicians or ideas and thought: “oh goody. It’s like a more centrist onion and they just look for idiocy across the isles..”
Then I saw MORE of their jokes and was like- “ok… for parody this is getting too spot on…” then I read somewhere a mention of them as conservative/right and was like… ahhh. Lightbulb. So a month or so ago I would t have gotten this joke- but now it is rather funny.
Yeah. I understand that was the case initially. Like when it started out, it did make fun of everyone like The Onion, despite being conservative leaning.
But then it was bought up and essentially became a propaganda channel.
Ahhhh. I feel slightly less foolish then. Lol. I suppose propaganda abounds, though I do find it somewhat disturbing that in An age where we can often so clearly identify and quickly call out and debunk propaganda and misinformation (regardless of political stance) that so many people just really seem to want to believe it wether it is crooked or not. “It aligns to my beliefs and worldview so propaganda or not it was already true to me..” I mean.. that can get complex but when we find ourselves too aligned to propaganda we probably shouldn’t bother to question the propaganda as much as we should question our own beliefs. The fact that our beliefs fortuitously align to the needs of some puppet master is perhaps a warning sign.
Seems like a wasp would have been a better representation. Yeah, WASPs definitely work for them.
I only recently found out the Babylon bee was conservative. The way most of their jokes read I thought it was making fun of conservative news because many of the headlines and messages were so close to what I see in real conservative news- I thought the joke was in spoofing “Fox” type news and their viewers. Then I saw some of their stuff that clearly poked fun at liberal politicians or ideas and thought: “oh goody. It’s like a more centrist onion and they just look for idiocy across the isles..”
Then I saw MORE of their jokes and was like- “ok… for parody this is getting too spot on…” then I read somewhere a mention of them as conservative/right and was like… ahhh. Lightbulb. So a month or so ago I would t have gotten this joke- but now it is rather funny.
But then it was bought up and essentially became a propaganda channel.