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dammit i ate the onion, because that sounds real

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The best satire borrows heavily from reality.

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The best satire is reality.

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I’d like to think there was a time that wasn’t true.

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I was like “OMG! They finally understand how I feel!”

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It is very real but journalism hasn’t quite evolved to state facts yet. They’re still at the gaslighting stage of making us think our unhappiness is the result of our own poor choices and shortcomings, and that everyone else is happy except for us.

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ok

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you are very perceptive

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shuddup unless you want me to help

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Yeah Onion hasn’t been doing much satire recently. Just real news

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Fuck. I did too.

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my solution is to make rice and veggies

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It me

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Same.

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me too, thanks.

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you it?

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We be

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Comrade

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Fr fr

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Going through cancer treatment the last couple of years, doctors often asked me if I was feeling suicidal, I never was, but this would have been a correct answer most days.

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That’s not all that unrealistic lol

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Too real.

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While we’re here, you guys got any depressing songs suggestions?

Edit: Thank you for the suggestions. Listening to them all.

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mountain goats, up the wolves

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I’m going to need to google this to figure out which part if the song name and which part is the band.

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select text

right-click on selected text

click on search, in firefox you can set it for google or ddg or others i guess

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The Beths in general for me lately. I like Expert in a Dying Field, Scilence in Golden, and Knees Deep. But their older stuff are great too.

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Literally any 16th century nocturne.

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“As the Footsteps Die Out Forever” by Catch 22. Genre is ska punk. It’s about the loss of a family member.

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Not at all what I expected on this thread! What a pull

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i was nope on the ska but that rules thanks

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Ben Howard - Esmerelda, anything from Portishead, Red House Painters, Sofa Surfers

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Listened to Glory Box by Portishead. Seems way ahead of it’s time for 94. Thanks for the suggestion

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Anything by Michael Buble.

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Iron & Wine - “The Trapeze Swinger”

IYKYK

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I’m not lighting a fuse with this, am I? O_O;

Anyway, Routine by Steven Wilson and Losing It by Rush are two big candidates. Remove all sharp objects from the immediate vicinity before you listen to them.

Actually, forget that. Songs about naval disasters (The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot, At the Harbor by Renaissance, The Wreck of the Hesperus by Procol Harum) are somber in tone but won’t make you feel despondent afterward. They’re like rye bread… a little rough and dark, but hearty and filling and ultimately cleansing in the end.

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accch! you sound exactly like my dad. reciting every song ever.

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spotify links don’t travel far

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An Introduction To The Album by The Hotelier

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This is art/prog/jazz rock molded to perfection:

https://youtu.be/hCU_lScCpAM?si=6q-LbBsj1imw008_

Check out this song by them but feel free to listen to their entire albums. Start with Land Animal, Say So, or You Know What They Mean if you like the above song.

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Hurt, the cover by Johnny Cash

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Rabbit in Your Headlights by Unkle

Something I Can Never Have, NIN

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I would also submit the vocal version of Forsaken to this list.

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tv on the radio - blind

motion picture soundtrack - radiohead

entire discography of godspeed you black emperor but e.g. dead flag blues

pretty much anything grizzly bear did before 2007 but e.g. he hit me

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The Myth is Real Let’s Eat - Jello Biafra and Nomeansno

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The entirety of Let It Come Down by Spiritualized. It’s an album all about the apathy, misery, bliss and beauty that accompanies heroin addiction. It’s painfully beautiful music.

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Eliot Smith - Either/Or

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