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[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Saw the picture thought you were saying Jeff was going to heaven 10/10 unintentional click bait.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Isn't the Daily Star basically a tabloid, or am I thinking of something with a similar name?

It's also cute that right wing Christians think they'd be raptured since Jesus would be returning to, in part, punish the shit out of them.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

The Star is somewhere between The Sun (a Rupert Murdoch spec tabloid rag with a "publish first, verify sources later" approach) and The Sport (contrary to its name, is less about the development and performance of elite ball games, and more about substituting the journalism with as much softcore pornography as possible).

Admittedly, the Star is highly entertaining - like the "nottheonion" comm in print form, with an approach more like a magazine than a newspaper. It's usually a fraction cheaper than most of the major tabloids too.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

It must be the Sun that I was thinking of.

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago

Yes, and, if you were using piefed.social there would be a little red warning icon next to any post that links to the daily star, with a popup saying "Tabloid".

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

After reading most of the article, because frankly even that was too much, it sounds like it's people on Twitter trolling them.

Maybe it eventually got some buy-in from the unraptured, but doesn't appear to be where the idea started.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

I don’t get it, Rapture was released back in 1981 by Blondie…

~~Is she~~ Are they doing a remaster?

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

You can listen to any song any time you want these days, what's the problem?

https://youtu.be/pHCdS7O248g

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago

They just can't wait to get to that glorious pie in the sky.

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