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The Onion buys Infowars
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> Seems like the article is really gleeful. Good! It should be. Alex Jones is a ghoul making money from dead school shooting victims. Anything that embarrasses him is entitled to as much glee as it wants.
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No, I don’t. Those situations aren’t remotely comparable. I suspect you already know this but are using the Sandy Hook victims as a jumping off point to discuss something unrelated. Please don’t do that.
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> Whether this is actually true or not (and I haven't looked into) sounds about right
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Your ignorance of how the legal system actually works does not make you immune from the consequences of defying the legal system. You've gotten accurate explanations multiple times and yet you continue to throw a pedantic tantrum in the comments. Calm down, conspiracy guy.
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Sounds like someone has been taking their alpha brain supplements.
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#405I hope that they can keep the spirit of the infowars conspiracy genre alive. > “US seeks to destabilize Canada into a war with Mexico to solve the border crisis “
I'll take the bait: Is that from Infowars or from The Onion?
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#406The 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
Wow, crazy to watch all the bootlickers and nutters in his feed who are angry about this.
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#408Tim 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...
Interesting. They should.. but Bksy is bouncing between 15 to 133 new users per second at the moment, and they are on bare metal. There is major service degradation at the moment. Pour one out for their team.
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#409Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Seems like the article is really gleeful. Good! It should be. Alex Jones is a ghoul making money from dead school shooting victims. Anything that embarrasses him is entitled to as much glee as it wants.
Yes and he profits from fooling mentally ill people. Selling homeopatic pills and whatever. But I think the right to be wrong is way more important than getting at Alexander Jones. The precedent is bad.
I can't imagine a more valid use for defamation laws than to prevent someone from knowingly and repeatedly causing death threats and other harassment to be directed at parents whose children have been murdered. After being sued, Jones completely failed to defend himself in any meaningful way and lost the suit by default. I honestly have no idea which part of this chain of events you object to. People should be free to send mobs after parents grieving an unimaginable tragedy? Morons who get sued should win by default?
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... Infowars had a supplements business?
On the internet, telling people what they want to hear will always attract an audience. If the audience is larger than a thousand or so people, then you can make money by leveraging your audience's trust in you to sell them supplements, cash for gold schemes, boxed mattresses, meal delivery kits, or VPNs.
nfts, crypto, low poly trucks etc.