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The Onion buys Infowars

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Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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post #81

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

I think the Babylon Bee has been a good replacement.

Babylon Bee notoriously punches down and is the epitome of the "one joke" trope.

They're an uninspired impersonation of The Onion, with a clear political purpose.

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

#252
post #88

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> As for the vitamins and supplements, we are halting their sale immediately. Utilitarian logic dictates that if we can extend even one CEO’s life by 10 minutes, diluting these miracle elixirs for public consumption is an unethical waste. Instead, we plan to collect the entire stock of the InfoWars warehouses into a large vat and boil the contents down into a single candy bar–sized omnivitamin that one executive (I w…

Funny, for sure, but does not explain what they will be doing in reality.

I'd assume destroy, maybe keep a bit for novelty value. Like, they're not going to resell it, you'd assume.

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

#253
post #210

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whoops, looks like you let the mask slip! I see you started this thread debating the merits of trust in the court system, I'm relieved we've finally got to the crux of it. You consume and identify with the kind of crank material Infowars publishes. Thank you for letting us know.

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>>Lol... someone apparently accepted the mRNA injections.

It just boggles my mind that one of the greatest medical achievements of this century(so far anyway) is being ridiculed on the internet. It's honestly the same as someone going in the comments section and saying that the earth is flat, after all just LOOK OUTSIDE SHEEPLE.

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

#254
post #210

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whoops, looks like you let the mask slip! I see you started this thread debating the merits of trust in the court system, I'm relieved we've finally got to the crux of it. You consume and identify with the kind of crank material Infowars publishes. Thank you for letting us know.

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Hey we're only writing what our overlords (bill gates etc) tell us to write over the vaccine antenna we got inserted.

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

#255
post #210

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> Alex Jones was declared to be in default for failing to provide a document that never existed in the first place. You've said this numerous times. It isn't true. > In her ruling, Bellis criticized Jones’ attorney for providing only “sanitized, inaccurate” financial records and showed “callous disregard” for her repeated rulings to provide complete analytics data. She found Jones’ attorneys actions “were not just ca…

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Re: The Onion buys Infowars

#256
post #91

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…

The Onion is truly a national treasure.

they are fueled by clickbait, and they've promoted the practice.

it's probably the first site I've manually added to my dns blacklist.

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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post #126

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Alex Jones using Twitter/X is on-brand.

> Twitter/X Why not call it one or the other?

I believe Xitter (pronounced 'shitter') is the preferred satirical term, and one that many deem to be an accurate portrayal of the sites user experience since it was taken over by Mr Musk.

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

#259
post #108

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This is a ridiculous comment. They basically refused to participate in the trial, so much so that they got a default judgment against them. Any reasonable observer sees what happened here. You’re not fooling anyone.

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bro you need to stop reading info wars

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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That doesnt mean it was a reasonable amount.

5'500'000'000 people on the internet, which means an average of 27 cents per user. To say that there is "no possible way" of reaching that level of emotional damages is a stretch.

he wasn't paying for emotional damages done to the users of the internet. He was paying for emotional damages to 15 plaintiffs. 100 million is a lot of emotional suffering. Civil damages would have been lower if he killed the children himself. OJ paid 30 million civil damages for murder, and that was outstandingly high.

The courts might as well have assigned a 1 trillion dollars of damages.

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