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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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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…

  - Terrorist Bomb Pierces Bob Dole's Outer Hull
  - Are Your Cats Old Enough To Learn About Jesus?
  - Deadly Super Rainbow Tears Through West Coast
  - Clinton Deploys Vowels To Bosnia
  - Rescue Chip Sent In To Save Broken Tostito Submerged In 7 Layer Dip
That last one in particular was absolutely epic.

Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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post #291

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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.

I agree! Not at all a laughing matter; rather, a critical landmark in the preservation of individual rights.

“Up to the date of birth”

This is not an issue I care about at all, but even I can recognize that a voluntary abortion the day before a healthy birth would occur is truly a radical extreme that most people would object to.

Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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I agree! Not at all a laughing matter; rather, a critical landmark in the preservation of individual rights.

“Up to the date of birth” This is not an issue I care about at all, but even I can recognize that a voluntary abortion the day before a healthy birth would occur is truly a radical extreme that most people would object to.

How can you not care at all about the government forcing people to sacrifice their bodies in the most intimate way possible? To put one's sex organs to use against one's will? Disgusting.

Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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post #332
post #291

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I agree! Not at all a laughing matter; rather, a critical landmark in the preservation of individual rights.

“Up to the date of birth” This is not an issue I care about at all, but even I can recognize that a voluntary abortion the day before a healthy birth would occur is truly a radical extreme that most people would object to.

You can likely also realise that the UK expunging prosecution and conviction of women convicted of back street abortions isn't equivilant to legalising abortion the day before birth .. however much the hand wringing click bait press try and spin it.

Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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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"

Did you believe they are fake? Or what's your point here?

Number two is real:

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/17/law-pardon-wom...

- https://catholicreview.org/uk-church-leaders-pro-life-advoca...

Number three is real:

- https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2196712/horror-migrant-...

- https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38880851/migrant-kills-tries-c...

- https://nypost.com/2026/04/22/world-news/migrant-cooks-a-cat...

Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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post #276

Can someone put me to speed on it? Who is the onion? Who is info wars? What is happening? I can't comprehend but it feels that I cannot really Google for it

The Onion is a long standing satirical news site. They run crazy stories intended to make readers laugh. Infowars was a disinformation/conspiracy site that ran crazy headlines to outrage their audience. The owner of Infowars was sued into oblivion for saying the Sandy Hook school shooting was faked as a pretense to pass gun control. So now crazy conspiracy site is sold to satire site to help pay off the massive judgm…

Not just for saying - for intentionally and provably lying about the victim's families for profit.

Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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Source: the video: https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/2045335697893269640 Edit: but it is likely the baby is older than 6 weeks in that video - this seems to be the source of confusion (read carefully - the 6-week-old video was a different, older video): In December, when Texson was 6 weeks old, he shared a video with the text overlay “6 week old homophobic baby,” which was viewed more than 36 million times. In that vi…

"6-Week-Old" babies don't have the muscle strength to hold their heads horizontally like that (and IMHO it would be foolhardy to wave them around like that)... Pronounced social smiling (as in the video) already by six weeks would also pretty unusual.

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Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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Worth highlighting: > “The goal for the families we represent has always been to prevent Alex Jones from being able to cause harm at scale, the way he did against them,” said Chris Mattei, the lawyer who argued the Connecticut families’ case in court. The deal with The Onion promises “to significantly degrade his power to do that.” > The Onion also plans to sell merchandise and share the proceeds with the Sandy Hook…

I reallyyyyy want a gay frogs t-shirt, I would wear the hell out of that. That entire rant and meme it spawned is the only good thing to come out of that man

Because it brought attention to the endocrine-disrupting chemicals that have been allowed to be dumped into our water supply,

right?

Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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He's closer than you might appreciate.

It’s interesting how selectively applied standpoint epistemology serves in furtherance of exactly one standpoint.

Tim agrees completely: https://youtu.be/JhcGWg7aV0w?t=287

Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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Please can someone correct my opinion on this because I'm sure I'm missing something. I find it crazy that in the US you can't take an opinion on something without risking being bankrupted because that thing you said is later proven untrue and that it hurt someone's feelings – feeling which in the US have a monetary value of billions apparently. I agree that the media should be evidence based and it's bad when the me…

Agreed. And these punishments also seem completely arbitrary when many media corporations get away with outright lies all the time.
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