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At long last, InfoWars is ours

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Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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Post by GaryBluto »

pogue wrote: post #9

Seems 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…

> Seems like it's still not theirs until a judge signs off on it.

Does that mean their use of the branding and claims of ownership could be illegal or would it be covered under the first ammendment?

Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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Post by GaryBluto »

troped2 wrote: post #122
troped2 wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favorite headlines: "Video: ‘Homophobic’ 6-Week-Old Baby Cries After Gay Dad Tells Him ‘There Is No Mama’" "UK Approves Bills To Remove Criminal Penalties For Women Who Commit Their Own Abortions" "Nigerian Photographed Killing Cat And Trying To Cook It In Front Of Children’s Playground In Italy"

"Afghani Arrested On Suspicion Of Raping Goats In France" "Trump Anticipates Chinese Leader “Will Give Me A Big, Fat Hug”" "Photos Of A Cucumber & Ron Paul Playing Baseball Massively Ratio Netanyahu & Mark Levin On X"

> "Trump Anticipates Chinese Leader “Will Give Me A Big, Fat Hug”"

To be fair, he did.

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Post by NoMoreNicksLeft »

micromacrofoot wrote: post #88
NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #81

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Reasonable by what metric? I've seen judgements that are tiny fractions of this for corporate crimes that affects hundreds or thousands of people. Is it reasonable because Alex Jones can afford it (hint: he can't, not even if he wasn't hiding his money)? This judgement ends up being more akin to punishing him by forcing him off of his platform, which is actually unconstitutional even for a shitbag like him.

those judgements should be higher too I think this one was high because alex jones harassed parents of murdered children to the point where they had to move out of the town their children were buried in. These people were harassed to the point of being afraid to visit the graves of their children. Sometimes examples need to be set in egregious cases.

>Sometimes examples need to be set in egregious cases.

And if he had been fined $35 million dollars, the example would have been set, they'd have been paid, and he'd have spent the next 20 years figuring out how much that award fucked him when he couldn't be insured for anything, when no one would touch him for any sort of gig worth having. He might have ended up destitute. But if you do the Dr. Evil "1 billion dollars!" thing, which he could never actually pay, the plaintiffs get nothing for all their misery, and the money he does hide in offshore accounts is there for him to loaf around on forever. Why is this so counterintuitive for everyone?

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Post by shagie »

traderj0e wrote: post #199
shagie wrote: post #180

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> Idk what the Sandy Hook shooting has to do with this, the Onion has been around for much longer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_... > 'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens They've reprinted / reposted that article 39 times since 2014 (Sandy Hook was in 2012) Gun violence is something that the editorial board of The Onion feels strongly about.

Ok so they feel strongly about gun violence, where's the humorous part here? It's a pretty funny headline being used the first time, maybe they were better in 2014.

Satire doesn't always have to be "ha ha" funny. They've got plenty of that material.

As mass shootings became more and more common as a news satire site they felt that they couldn't continue to keep their heads in the sand and needed to write something about it. They couldn't continue to not write something about the news, and yet they felt they had to write something. Jimmy Kimmel is often Ha Ha funny... and yet https://youtu.be/ruYeBXudsds https://youtu.be/sB0wWEFIr50 https://youtu.be/Z0vLiQLpsc8

When you make jokes about the news, sometimes you have to write about the not ha ha funny, but rather the tragic news instead. This is how The Onion has addressed it.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-onion-became-one-of-th... ( https://archive.is/hEJhg )

> And as mass shootings increasingly became a tragic and appalling feature of the Obama era, it also became a subject that The Onion could not avoid covering all too routinely. “As more and more shootings happened, it became something that—as an organization that comments on the news—we couldn’t not write stories about…and it kept on growing and growing and growing to the point where [the problem of gun violence] just seemed overwhelming.”

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Post by themafia »

pton_xd wrote: post #43

It was barely funny when I read the headline a few years ago. Really weird story, I guess I just don't understand the humor at all. I'd rather stop hearing about InfoWars entirely.

Alex Jones lives rent free in peoples heads. They mistake a phyrric victory for a real victory.

Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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Post by sleepybrett »

I hope they invite the knowledge fight guys, a couple of podcasters who mock and debunk infowars, down to film a show in the infowars studio. They helped the sandy hook families legal with their case and are generally awesome guys.

Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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Post by sleepybrett »

themafia wrote: post #216
pton_xd wrote: post #43

It was barely funny when I read the headline a few years ago. Really weird story, I guess I just don't understand the humor at all. I'd rather stop hearing about InfoWars entirely.

Alex Jones lives rent free in peoples heads. They mistake a phyrric victory for a real victory.

they took everything he owned and are now unraveling all the bullshit tricks he used to hide his assets. Certainly it's more real than phyrric.

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Post by arrowsmith »

troped2 wrote: post #98
fmbb wrote: post #78

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I can’t believe this. I saw OP and went to infowars dot com to have a look. I scrolled a bit, clicked some links, looked at the store, had a good laugh at the comedy of this ironic site. Now you’re telling me the site is not a joke from The Onion? Reality is stranger than fiction.

My favorite headlines: "Video: ‘Homophobic’ 6-Week-Old Baby Cries After Gay Dad Tells Him ‘There Is No Mama’" "UK Approves Bills To Remove Criminal Penalties For Women Who Commit Their Own Abortions" "Nigerian Photographed Killing Cat And Trying To Cook It In Front Of Children’s Playground In Italy"

I'm not sure what point you're making but there's nothing satirical about the second headline. The UK really did just legislate to decriminalise abortion up to the point of birth.

I don't see how that's a laughing matter.

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Post by weirdmantis69 »

logifail wrote: post #131
troped2 wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favorite headlines: "Video: ‘Homophobic’ 6-Week-Old Baby Cries After Gay Dad Tells Him ‘There Is No Mama’" "UK Approves Bills To Remove Criminal Penalties For Women Who Commit Their Own Abortions" "Nigerian Photographed Killing Cat And Trying To Cook It In Front Of Children’s Playground In Italy"

> 6-Week-Old Baby I appreciate this story appears to be all about the rage-bate headlines, but I don't believe that either six-week old babies say "Mama" (with purpose) or that a baby that age would be capable of responding in the way described to an adult saying "there is no Mama". It doesn't work like that at that age. [Source: have three kids]

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