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The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by permo-w »

2c2c2c wrote: post #729
wyager wrote: post #572

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So on the one hand you had Twitter, where the impression you would have had in the first few days of November is that Trump was probably going to win the election. On the other hand you had most other platforms like Reddit, with relatively heavy-handed moderation, where the impression you would have had in the first few days of November is that Trump was probably going to lose the election. So when you want to make a…

what's the standard now for a not close election? dems have to always win the popular vote now? 4 swing states were decided by a 1% difference. this election was close.

the game is to win the swing states. that is all that matters and both parties know it.

Trump won all 7 swing states and the popular vote by a few million. it was not a close election whatsoever. even Clinton won Nevada

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by lukas099 »

shaftway wrote: post #990
lukas099 wrote: post #989

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> The Onion is in for a big letdown. I don’t think they expected anything different. I think they saw the brand for sale at firesale prices, and decided they could use it. In fact, they’re one of the only ’mainstream’ outlets that can use the InfoWars brand, since it’s funny. Perhaps they will set up a ‘competing’ ‘right-wing’ satire site ala Colbert Report vs Daily Show.

The Babylon Bee is a pretty right wing version of The Onion with articles titled things like "Satan Devastated After Kamala Loses Election". https://babylonbee.com/

But that actually has a right-wing agenda right? I was talking about being ironically right wing.

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Post by athom »

grahamj wrote: post #410
barryrandall wrote: post #290

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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.

That's it.

If I EVER go so crazy as to buy one of THOSE trucks

the plate is going to read 'LOPOLY'

I don't even care who gets it, or doesn't.

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Post by TeeMassive »

pyrale wrote: post #267
TeeMassive wrote: post #154

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I doubt that the SH families will receive the kind of money they could have had if they accepted Jones' original offer. Their lawyers made it clear they were in it not for their clients' interest but for their own political agenda.

Maybe the families were more interested in fixing the issue than in receiving some blood money in exchange for continued harm.

So, as it turns out, the auction was fraudulent and stopped by the judge...

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Post by 71bw »

verdverm wrote: post #860
71bw wrote: post #839

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Only for the platform to die in a month anyway, when everybody inadvertenly runs back to Twitter...

People are deleting their Musk Social accounts, they literally and figuratively have nothing to go back to.

They are too terminally online to warrant deleting accounts. I, already, can see the 'I'm going to Bluesky!!!!!' crowd returning and definitely not in single digit numbers.

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Post by pyrale »

TeeMassive wrote: post #994
pyrale wrote: post #267

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Maybe the families were more interested in fixing the issue than in receiving some blood money in exchange for continued harm.

So, as it turns out, the auction was fraudulent and stopped by the judge...

I looked it up, but I can't find any article claiming the judge had made a ruling yet. The most recent news I can find [1] simply states that the auction loser is making a legal challenge, and that a hearing will happen in the future (the date scheduled at the last hearing was nov. 25th). Do you have a reputable news source for that claim?

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/g-s1-34985/alex-jones-infowar...

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Post by drawkward »

drawkward wrote: post #437
leptons wrote: post #382

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Have any of them been confirmed yet? No. You can't even bring yourself to mention that the Defense nominee has actually served in the Army, and is a decorated veteran. Stop acting like such a partisan; it is far too early to commence the bed-wetting.

Gaetz withdraws as AG Nominee.

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Post by [deleted] »

philistine wrote: post #526
petercooper wrote: post #99

I'm watching his stream just to see how the drama goes down and a silly tech-adjacent bit popped up when he started ranting about Linux and how if "they" were trying to take Linus Torvalds down, they still couldn't ever own Linux!

And I believe he is wrong in this case. Linus is absolutely a lynchpin for Linux control. He can be replaced, but whoever replaces him then becomes that lynchpin. He's the benevolent dictator for life after all.

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Post by TeeMassive »

pyrale wrote: post #996
TeeMassive wrote: post #994

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So, as it turns out, the auction was fraudulent and stopped by the judge...

I looked it up, but I can't find any article claiming the judge had made a ruling yet. The most recent news I can find [1] simply states that the auction loser is making a legal challenge, and that a hearing will happen in the future (the date scheduled at the last hearing was nov. 25th). Do you have a reputable news source for that claim? [1]: https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/g-s1-34985/alex-jones-infowar...

It was an emergency ruling. The takeover that was supposed to happen was blocked. What The onion was $2M below another offer.
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