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At long last, InfoWars is ours
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#62> Nothing can stop us now that we’re in charge of a website.
I love that. Like a familiar smell, it triggered in me a long lost memory of the old hacker ethos.
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The Onion and Mr Beast are the highbrow and lowbrow versions of the same niche: absurdism, spectacle and indifference without staying power. Since there's such low retention, the content must be weighted to constant new conversions and new reconversions. Edit: if you have the time, watch their youtube series Sex House, Helcomb County Municipal Lake Dredge Appraisals and Dr. Good (approx 75 minutes each). There's no n…
You say "without staying power" but I still remember and frequently cite these ancient Onion article headlines: - Drugs now legal if user is gainfully employed - Top 10 Genocides of the 20th Century (Infographic) - Cycle of Abuse Running Smoothly I mean sure, it's a satirical news site and it's got a constant stream of new content, much of which is forgettable. But that's true of every other news site too. The gems m…
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Right up with the crypto scam that followed it. Great. In case you didn't know, the creators of Birds aren't real rug pulled and stole millions with their crypto coin.
If true, you have to admire their commitment to the bit. I didn't find anything about this though.
You want to look for Enron - they bought the hostname as part of something
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No offense, but the humor of it has gone right over your head. Building an InfoWars clone isn't nearly as funny as acquiring the real one just to mock it.
I guess.. But renting a 4th reich site seems far darker than they might be used to and likely to make them the butt of the joke when Hitler's testtube clone gets elected from it in 35 years.
If thats true, seems like it is 10000x more critical they purchase right to the infowars hiltler cloning facilities and features
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The amount of the judgment seems reasonable for years of harassment against a bunch of people, all done for a profit, plus a bunch of egregious misbehavior in court.
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The Onion has been around since 1988, so...decent staying power.
And hasn't had any cultural relevance aside from this stunt for just about the last decade. It's like saying that National Lampoon is still relevant.
> And hasn't had any cultural relevance aside from this stunt for just about the last decade.
You're right! Their own claim is that it's insane they're still around, because they find it hard to match the absurdity of the last 10 years.
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#70Seems like it's still not theirs until a judge signs off on it. That sale was scuttled by a bankruptcy court. Now, The Onion has re-emerged with a new plan: licensing the website from Gregory Milligan, the court-appointed manager of the site. On Monday, Mr. Milligan asked Maya Guerra Gamble, a judge in Texas’s Travis County District Court overseeing the disposition of Infowars, to approve that licensing agreement in…
I’m surprised they’ve said it so confidently given how it completely collapsed last time…
I think it's a good PR move. "Hey, look at how reasonable we've been in spite of the legal craziness. We've put money on the table and are moving forward with a plan that benefits everyone." Now anyone who blocks the plan will be seen as the problem.