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The Onion buys Infowars

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Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by paddy_m »

gadders wrote: post #145
kregasaurusrex wrote: post #64

There's tonnes of worthless merchandise and supplements of a dubious nature which The Onion, the least expected of all possible buyers, now has to find a use for. My first suggestion would be melting down all of the 500% marked up gold bars[0] and make a one-time-run charity auction collectible for the Sandy Hook families. Or upcycling all the paper in Alex Jones' books [1] into paper mache, and use it to make globes…

>> make a one-time-run charity auction collectible for the Sandy Hook families They've got $1.5billion. Probably don't need the gold as well. There might be equally valid causes with less funds.

They have a claim for $1.5B, they are going after all Alex Jones assets which are much less than $1.5B.

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by latexr »

consumer451 wrote: post #18

Tim Onion's (Ben Collins) statement on Bluesky: [0] > Hi everyone. > The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. > We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. > We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. > I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up. Next post: [1] > Does anybody need millions of dollars worth of…

Those links don’t work for me. But these do:

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/po...

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/po...

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by reaperducer »

Maken wrote: post #153
tyleo wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t think effective government is founded on the basis of lolz.

Haven't you seen the DOGE department yet?

Haven't you seen the DOGE department yet?

How do you make government smaller?

Step 1: Make government bigger by inventing a new department!

(Strictly speaking, it's not a government department. It is a private entity that will operate outside the government, and influence the president. What could possibly go wrong?)

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by ta8645 »

reaperducer wrote: post #156
ta8645 wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honest question: what threats did Jones make against them? I understood that he claimed it was a hoax/conspiracy, not that he had made any threats. Not even sure how he could make threats against people he didn't believe were real.

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With all that typing, you could have answered the actual question. As far as I know, there were no threats made by Alex Jones. If I'm wrong, I'd like to know.

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by nixdev »

sed_zeppelin wrote: post #166
jsheard wrote: post #2

The announcement by America's Finest News Source: https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/ Alex Jones response: https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1857058831135645739

On a whim, I decided to peek at the InfoWars homepage. At this moment, I cannot determine which of the headlines are genuine InfoWars content and which are the product of Onion writers. (I assume it's genuine due to the recency of the sale closing?)

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Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by anon291 »

soco wrote: post #61
delichon wrote: post #26

The current speculation by the right-o-sphere that Alex Jones is about to be appointed the Trump press secretary is apt for the moment where Trump seems to have made his nominations on the basis of how much they will disturb the left. It's hard to imagine anyone that could be more effective at achieving that than Jones.

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Vivek ramaswamy and Tulsi Gabbard and usha Vance and Marco Rubio.... Kkk has become very diverse lately /s.

Okay, but really... If you're going to criticize, can we at least make valid analogies?

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by mrguyorama »

hersko wrote: post #81
dogleash wrote: post #14

Funny concept. Shame that The Onion's writing these days so mid.

I think the Babylon Bee has been a good replacement.

The Babylon Bee occasionally takes a good swipe at liberals and democrats.

The Onion will go down in history as one of the most influential satire projects of all time, and is filled with genuinely talented writers and comedians. Even their early Youtube work was prescient and brilliant.

They aren't even playing the same game.

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by afavour »

nixdev wrote: post #152
miltonlost wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Calling Sandy Hook a hoax and harrassing grieving parents is not "the right to be wrong".

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He inspired the harassment. It was obvious to everyone, Jones included, that his actions were resulting in grieving parents being harassed and he did not change his actions. At some point people should be held responsible for the actions they know they are inspiring in others.

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by anon291 »

tyleo wrote: post #57
delichon wrote: post #26

The current speculation by the right-o-sphere that Alex Jones is about to be appointed the Trump press secretary is apt for the moment where Trump seems to have made his nominations on the basis of how much they will disturb the left. It's hard to imagine anyone that could be more effective at achieving that than Jones.

I don’t think effective government is founded on the basis of lolz.

Well it also wasn't founded on whatever the hell we were doing before either

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by pipeline_peak »

AdamN wrote: post #126
jsheard wrote: post #2

The announcement by America's Finest News Source: https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/ Alex Jones response: https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1857058831135645739

Alex Jones using Twitter/X is on-brand.

> Twitter/X

Why not call it one or the other?

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