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It seems to me that the Onion had a schism and split into the Babylon Bee and this new, very political version. I ended up unfollowing them on Instagram when it was (in my opinion) just thinly-veiled hate-based politics.

Did anyone experience something similar in the last year or so, or am I the one changing?

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I had never heard of the Babylon Bee and I just took a look at it. Are you saying you think The Onion is the very political one, or did I misread your sentence?

I think the Onion has become very political over the last year or so. When I started following the Babylon Bee, they were already very political to me.

The Onion has always been very political with a liberal slant. I have some of their print collections from the early 2000s and they're similar to today's Onion with maybe a little more edge.

Their gun control headline "'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'No_Way_to_Prevent_This%2C'_Sa...) dates to 2014.

Since wanting to end school shootings is not a left or right issue, how would a conservative publication satirize the issue?

At a guess, by pointing out the "Gun-Free Zone" signs.

Edit: No longer a guess, https://babylonbee.com/news/chicago-schools-gun-free-zone-si...

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