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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.
Area man is consistently fooled by The Onion.
Got im
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#612There'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…
I don't know man, it's not like the dude caused the Sandy Hook massacre, just take this win and let the victims rest in peace. Let the Onion do it's things and cut ties.
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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.
The thing is the onion is pretty much always ridiculous, so if some of them are in a "gray area" I think that moreso speaks to the overall climate or your own personal biases.
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> Ignoring the influence Jones has on the public and fully executing the law What "law" exactly do you think needs to be "executed"? Defamation laws? Were these defamation laws ever argued in court? Did you actually follow the trial? The court claimed that Alex Jones didn't provide documents, documents that never existed, and defaulted him. The defamation laws were never argued in the court case. This action by the c…
We are laughing at the gay frogs man here. Get out if here with you mature analysis of the death of the judicial branch of the United States.
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Call it Twitter. Everyone knows what you mean, and it annoys Elon.
Call it X. Everyone knows what you mean and it really stirs shit up with people who are emotionally attached to the old brand name.
> Call it X. Everyone knows what you mean
When I see "X", I think X Window System.
I saw your comment and thought, "I bet this guy is a Windows user." I was right! LOL.
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Call it X. Everyone knows what you mean and it really stirs shit up with people who are emotionally attached to the old brand name.
> Call it X. Everyone knows what you mean When I see "X", I think X Window System. I saw your comment and thought, "I bet this guy is a Windows user." I was right! LOL. https://hn.algolia.com/?type=comment&sort=byDate&query=autho...
Congrats on your keen insights.
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Imagine there are humans who read those headlines and think to themselves that it is real.
Worse yet, imagine that those humans are armed, and many of them routinely fantasize about what they do when "it's time". My local gun store has sported an InfoWars sticker for many years now.
> My local gun store
Not a thing for most places