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Let's have fun with Poe's Law. Sort out which of the following quotes came from Pat or the Onion. (Answers at the bottom, after clicking the spoiler button.) And then, I dunno, maybe post your score and come up with your own questions, maybe with another parody site and someone else off the deep end of the political spectrum on the opposite side, or something. (I figured I'd just stick with what I know.)

Here we go:

1) "That’s the day when millions of children and adults will be dressing up as devils, witches, and goblins … to celebrate Satan"
2) "Bert and Ernie are not gay, they are depraved pansexual perverts"
3) "Now it’s a constitutional right for sodomites to marry each other…. we’re going to have this financial collapse."
4) "Watch what happens, love affairs between men and animals are going to be absolutely permitted…"
5) "… gay man unaware [he's the] focus of thousands of prayers."

Answers:

I got 'em all. To be honest, The Onion (usually) doesn't work too well with this kinda thing, because unlike some other satire websites, they don't really make an attempt to fool anyone, but rather focus on straight-up humor. Of course that makes sense, as they have so much name recognition that they'd be virtually guaranteed to fail at tricking more than a handful of people no matter how well they did.
Now if you asked me, this is where the real action's at.

IMO, the ones in that subreddit are pretty easy too. Sure, the horseshoe theory means the content of their posts might be similar, but SJW posts have a pretty distinctive wording that makes them easier to differentiate. SJWs are typically teenage/young adult women and the Stormfront folks are typically older men, so you'll find them using different wording (i.e. the former says the enemy is "creepy" whereas the latter says the enemy is "disgusting" or "perverted").

also there's the fact that this is reddit so guessing "SJW" means you'll be right 80% of the time

EDIT EDIT: i ran into the 20% and now i have stormfront in my browser history and am probably on some government watchlist, thx reddit

Well you can find a tip-off for some of them, sure. But not all. Now let's play the game and we'll see just how close they are. (Probably shoulda linked to that in the first place, but whatever.) My test run went really fucking badly, so…