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The Onion to Take over InfoWars

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Re: The Onion to Take over InfoWars

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> It feels personal at this point. It is openly and proudly personal. It is also political, also openly.

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So, amongst all the things that happened and happening right now, you think "someone is incredibly petty against Alex Jones" is worth spending your time complaining about. Alex Jones, the one who harassed mass shooting survivors.

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> It feels personal at this point. It is openly and proudly personal. It is also political, also openly.

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Seems appropriate for satirists to do a petty attack on a bad man. That’s kind of the whole thing, isn’t it?

I’d rather it be collective action that produces real change, but humor is cathartic so I’ll take it.

Re: The Onion to Take over InfoWars

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A million dollars a year for... what? A gag that fans of infowars won't watch, and there aren't enough anti-fans to appreciate? It feels personal at this point.

Not to mention Alex Jones is still up and running elsewhere spreading his nonsense and hawking his merch. So it's a cute gag, I guess, and gets the Sandy Hook families some money, but doesn't really change the status quo.

I disagree. It's a lot better than if it were bought by simply a different far-right media outlet.

This keeps it out of that ecosystem, which I think is a really good thing.

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When this all started, the Onion released a priceless 'press statement': "Through it all, InfoWars has shown an unswerving commitment to manufacturing anger and radicalizing the most vulnerable members of society—values that resonate deeply with all of us at Global Tetrahedron. No price would be too high for such a cornucopia of malleable assets and minds. And yet, in a stroke of good fortune, a formidable special in…

https://babylonbee.com/news/alex-jones-worried-people-will-s...

Re: The Onion to Take over InfoWars

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When this all started, the Onion released a priceless 'press statement': "Through it all, InfoWars has shown an unswerving commitment to manufacturing anger and radicalizing the most vulnerable members of society—values that resonate deeply with all of us at Global Tetrahedron. No price would be too high for such a cornucopia of malleable assets and minds. And yet, in a stroke of good fortune, a formidable special in…

https://babylonbee.com/news/alex-jones-worried-people-will-s...

Babylon Bee forces you to accept cookies to use their site. Worth avoiding.

Re: The Onion to Take over InfoWars

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A million dollars a year for... what? A gag that fans of infowars won't watch, and there aren't enough anti-fans to appreciate? It feels personal at this point.

> It feels personal at this point.

Of course it's personal. Alex Jones is an arsehole manufacturing outrage for profit. Being made fun of is the least of his problems

Re: The Onion to Take over InfoWars

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> It feels personal at this point. It is openly and proudly personal. It is also political, also openly.

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Pause for a moment. Do you have young kids? Imagine for a moment that they were slaughtered in a mass shooting and a bunch of people made money by launching a harassment campaign targeting you as a liar who probably never had kids, or alternatively used them as paid actors. Imagine this campaign went on for years.

And someone repurpose one of the instigator’s web sites as a humour outlet is the issue that leaves a bad taste in your mouth?

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