I was not sure what I was reading (not having a lot of references for actual American conservative cartoons probably explains that a bit) but crying liberty was too much even for gullible me.
requires knowing (and caring) about the artist and knowing they work for The Onion and knowing they do spoofs – I think this is only the third time I've seen anything of theirs and I'm far more likely to invoke Poe’s law than to spend any time questioning the lack of humor ...
I don't hate it, but 50% or more of the average article's value is in the headline. They could go to lorem ipsum text and have minimal reduction in quality.
Moving this out of the contrext of the onion pushes it from “haha, WTF?” to just “WTF?”.
Completely agree with this. If you don't follow the specific artist, and I don't, it just looks like a right-winger cartoonist clumsily satirizing "wokeness" with a bad pastiche of an R. Crumb or Charles Burns "comix" style. Maybe the joke's on me for not going another layer deep and seeing how vapid the "satire" is and realizing it's meta, but the creatives on the American right are not known for their subtlety.