The Onion buys Infowars • Hacker News Board

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by pavlov » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 5:37 PM UTC

drawkward wrote: post #347

lowbloodsugar wrote: post #337

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Flagging you from the left here. Harris outperformed Biden among only two demo groups[1]: -College educated whites -People with income > $100,000 Please, consider the possibility, that the Dems are now the party of wealthy elites, and that the diverse coalition making is happening on the R side of the aisle. [1] Edit for sourcing: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/opinion/obama-ezra-klein-...

A diverse coalition is also what enabled the N side of the aisle to take power in Germany in 1933, so that's not exactly an argument against the comparison made by the grandparent.

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 5:38 PM UTC

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Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by autoexec » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 5:39 PM UTC

seanp2k2 wrote: post #340

Hamuko wrote: post #269

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Infowars is basically only a vehicle to sell supplements and other various crap.

Not dissimilar to Fox News or any other media company where the main purpose of the content is to get people to stay for the ads. Turns out rage-baiting works extremely well for driving engagement among certain groups.

Fox news is pushing an agenda first and foremost. The ad money was just a bonus. Rupert Murdoch didn't need the ad money. Just like with Sky News he was more interested in the "reasons of prestige and politics for keeping it" than the profits.

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by NelsonMinar » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 5:39 PM UTC

The NPR article conveys that this was more than just a very clever stunt

> "The Connecticut families agreed to forgo a portion of their recovery to increase the overall value of The Onion's bid, enabling its success," according to their lawyers. ... Jones was hoping a bidder ideologically aligned with him would have bought Infowars and hired him back to keep doing his show.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-5189399/alex-jones-auct...

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by slt2021 » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 5:39 PM UTC

seanw444 wrote: post #284

chairmansteve wrote: post #193

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Call it Twitter. Everyone knows what you mean, and it annoys Elon.

I'm not even your average Elon hater, and I still think X is a stupid name. Dude should've just kept the name and brand that everyone knows already.

old good ole Twitter was when your feed was only those you followed.

new X is when your feed what Elon wants you to see and react to.

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by squarefoot » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 5:40 PM UTC

leptons wrote: post #299

hipadev23 wrote: post #246

Is Alex Jones the new Press Secretary yet?

The next 4 years are going to be an absolute farce in the US.

Wondering if that's what Mike Judge is waiting for: free inspiration enough for a 12 season long "Idiocracy: the series".

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by drawkward » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 5:41 PM UTC

pavlov wrote: post #441

drawkward wrote: post #347

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Flagging you from the left here. Harris outperformed Biden among only two demo groups[1]: -College educated whites -People with income > $100,000 Please, consider the possibility, that the Dems are now the party of wealthy elites, and that the diverse coalition making is happening on the R side of the aisle. [1] Edit for sourcing: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/opinion/obama-ezra-klein-...

A diverse coalition is also what enabled the N side of the aisle to take power in Germany in 1933, so that's not exactly an argument against the comparison made by the grandparent.

How many of the people crying Actual Fascism are buying guns to fight it?

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by shafyy » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 5:41 PM UTC

andrepd wrote: post #357

soco wrote: post #44

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Now if we want to get into dirty details, no bureaucrat is ever elected. You elect the representatives, and they nominate in turn whoever bureaucrats they feel comfy to work with. Or is this in the UK different?

The EU is governed by the European Commission, which is not elected. Say what you will about reactionary British conservatives, the fact remains that the EU is not a particularly democratic organisation.

The Bundesrat in Switzerland is also not elected directly by the people, it's elected by Congress. The Bundeskanzler in Germany are not also not elected directly by the people, they are elected by Congress.

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by sincerecook » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 5:42 PM UTC

talldayo wrote: post #434

sincerecook wrote: post #372

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan

Oh, you don't think they do it with malice?

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by ImHereToVote » Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 5:43 PM UTC

ben_w wrote: post #60

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.

> It's hard to imagine anyone that could be more effective at achieving that than Jones. Asking as a non-American: how disturbing would it be if he appointed Putin?

He is owned by another foreign government.