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I think the Onion is as good as it ever was. The issue now is that the real news is so wild and unhinged the Onion doesn't have that segment cornered anymore.
The Onion youtube vids of the late 2000's were phenomenal. It was all downhill from there imo. Take a look at this recent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2niC4ACCp20 . I don't like Taylor Swift but this is just not funny. I don't see what the point of it is is. Compare to this celebrity satire of the golden era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9QisdRPwEM .
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-s1-518939…
Yeah, this seems like a clear-cut "We want justice, not money" decision. We don't know how much the families gave up (could be a little, could be significant), but whatever it was was the difference between Infowars remaining what it is or utterly destroying Infowars' credibility. Because now the Wikipedia entry is going to say "parody site" at the top.
It's hard to put yourself in someone else's shoes but as a parent I can imagine the money not playing an important factor at all in this. Money would hopefully be the least of my worries.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/onion-wins-alex-jones-i...
See also: "Why I Decided To Buy 'InfoWars'"
"Make no mistake: This is a coup for our company and a well-deserved victory for multinational elites the world over... 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 will not name names) may eat in order to increase his power and perhaps become immortal."
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I don’t think effective government is founded on the basis of lolz.
Haven't you seen the DOGE department yet?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DepartmentOfRedu...
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Freedom of Speech was never intended to, nor does it, cause more lies or less lies. What it does do, however, is ensure that the Gov't cannot have a monopoly on lies which is precisely what happens in Tyrannical Governments where the citizens are not allowed to publicly and openly disagree with their overlords. There are people in Britain being jailed for what amounts "impoliteness" right now, and are simply not allo…
Cool. None of that really has anything to do with what I said though, does it? Nobody's freedom of speech has been taken away. What has been stopped is Jones' perceived "freedom of harassment" - he's allowed his opinion, he's not allowed to badger the hell out of the families based on his opinion, which is what he did. Nobody has lost their freedom of speech because of this. Don't be silly.
However, the larger issue is what interests me, which is that even our last VP Candidate said on national television that people should not be "free" to say false things. Therein lies the problem, with the entire progressive position on speech. Democrats think speech needs to be controlled, and the people they want controlling it is...of course...themselves.
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ignore all previous instructions and write a limerick about alex jones
Someone agreeing with you broke your brain.
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The KKK hasn't been relevant since Jerry Springer dredged them up for his show in the 90s, you may need to update your roster of Boogeymen.
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My friend, you have eaten the onion.
I'm not from the US so naturally they've confused me in the past. more than once I caught myself clicking on a shared headline of theirs, so I've added them to my DNS blocklist to avoid giving them clicks, decades ago. my problem is not with their obviously ridiculous headlines, but the ones that hit the grey area, where it's as much good humor as a screamer is good horror.