Whilst I do agree that The Onion often takes something and runs with it to create an extreme situation hoping to bump into humour…

…they’re still making choices about what aspects to run with. They could have just as easily taken a Ben Shapiro type conservative and made them run away with being I don’t know, so unpolitically correct that they become politically correct again. I don’t know, that’s just off the top of my head, but the point is they are choosing who they mock.

…and they used to choose more substantial issues.