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The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by hipadev23 »

briandear wrote: post #731
hipadev23 wrote: post #342

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You don’t think a fox news host is a great SecDef? Or a non-practicing briefly disbarred AG?

Seriously stop. He’s a decorated combat veteran with 20 years in the military and two Ivy League degrees.

He absolutely has not been “in” for 20 years. Someone will publish his actual record between active duty, active reserve, and inactive reserve. He was in the National Guard as a basic infantry officer. No ranger tab, no SF, hell not even airborne, so let’s stop acting like he’s a badass. He’s perfectly qualified for leading a company-sized unit. That’s it.

He has, in aggregate, around 4-5 years of experience as a junior officer. Most of his time is IRR which has ~zero [1] obligations and is basically just a higher priority draft list for former military.

I know you know all of this, of course, and you’re either defending him in bad faith or pure ignorance, so I’m mostly replying for the benefit of others.

[1] https://ec.militarytimes.com/guard-reserve-handbook/joining-...

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Post by Lammy »

quickthrowman wrote: post #735
Lammy wrote: post #628

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> And, ironically since it's what launched Jones' career, Bohemian Club & Grove: https://x.com/abbieasr/status/1462953203067240450 Too late to edit but I just realized the version of this I linked removed the “Bohemian Club” that was present in this older version. Strange! https://x.com/abbieasr/status/1312512066071060480

What is the conspiracy? It’s a social club for old rich men that has some goofy rituals. It’s just freemasonry for the upper crust elite.

I think it's interesting that so many governmental and corporate leaders meet up (or maybe met up? in the 20th Century) to talk shop outside the view of the public eye. It's relevant to anyone who wants to study Bay Area history or the history of World War Ⅱ technologies. For example, the Manhattan Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-1_Executive_Committee#/media...

> “The September 1942 meeting [of the S-1 Executive Committee] was held at Bohemian Grove. Nichols and Major Thomas T. Crenshaw, Jr., attended, along with physicist Robert Oppenheimer. This meeting resolved most of the outstanding issues confronting the [Manhattan] project, but [Vannevar] Bush and [James B.] Conant felt that the time had now come for the Army to take over the project, something that had already been approved by the president on June 17, 1942. After some discussion, it was decided that [Leslie R.] Groves, who would be promoted to the rank of brigadier general, would become the director of the Manhattan Project on September 23, 1942. He would be answerable to the Military Policy Committee (MPC), which would consist of Styer, Bush (with Conant as his alternate) and Rear Admiral William R. Purnell.”

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by elsonrodriguez »

_mlbt wrote: post #699
elsonrodriguez wrote: post #577

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Browsing their site I found an article that is making light of the suppression of women voters by using sexist tropes. > Hundreds of thousands of women across America were left standing utterly clueless as to what to do at a voting booth after their husbands failed to tell them who to vote for. > Voting at several polling stations ground to a halt after all of the booths became occupied by bewildered women. "This is…

> the suppression of women voters That's the joke. It's 2024 and that's not a thing anymore in America.

JD Vance has proposed that people with children should get more voting power. That sort of pressure would disenfranchise women who elect to not have children, or unduly pressure women to have children.

Vance’s backer, Peter Thiel, has also previously implied that women being able to vote has weakened democracy.

It’s 2024 in America, and this is a joke indeed.

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Post by netsharc »

barryrandall wrote: post #290
ackbar03 wrote: post #214

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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.

Some people wonder what the point is of flat-earthers arguing with everyone about their "alternative science". The answer is so they can identify the fools who they can scam with their various schemes...

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Post by netsharc »

seanp2k2 wrote: post #343
frankhorrigan wrote: post #239

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Infowars is a supplements business. It’s grifts all the way down.

Anyone ever wonder why there are very few far-right comedians?

Hey, come on, carrying a sink and saying "Let that sink in" is god damn hilarious...

/s

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Post by nemo44x »

Can anyone explain how InfoWars was sued and found guilty of free speech? There must be much more I’m not getting but although Jones sounds like an asshole I don’t think that’s illegal.

Why can’t someone sell an opinion that a tragedy didn’t actually exist and was created to push an agenda? It could be a provably false claim but don’t they have the right to make it? Isn’t being despicable a basic right?

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Post by pavel_lishin »

barbazoo wrote: post #553
oddevan wrote: post #456

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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.

> We don't know how much the families gave up (could be a little, could be significant) 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.

I'm a parent. I've woken up in a panic just because I had a bad dream that something bad happened to my kid.

If I were one of the Sandy Hook families, I don't know if anything in life would ever bring me true joy again. But contributing to this would make me smile a little.

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Post by zeroonetwothree »

KerrAvon wrote: post #477
jnwatson wrote: post #34

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He seems to be doing a better job running a newspaper than Bezos.

definitely printing fewer lies in the newspaper than Bezos

What “lies” is Bezos printing? AFAIK the only influence he had was pulling the endorsement for president.
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