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The Onion buys Infowars

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Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by moomin »

ackbar03 wrote: post #214
plorg wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The auction included all of the InfoWars and several associated corporations' assets, including the studio and the supplements business. At one point the settlement administrator was trying to get Alex's Twitter handle. I believe he's been doing some half-ass scheming to create essentially the same company but in his parents' name, and I doubt he has a problem getting listeners back.

... Infowars had a supplements business?

InfoWars was a supplements business. The political stuff was just a funnel to sell the supplements, where the real money was made.

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by leptons »

vixen99 wrote: post #326
leptons wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The next 4 years are going to be an absolute farce in the US.

Looking from abroad some folk have the impression that the previous four years were. They were a triumph?

The US has recovered from inflation better than practically any other country. Yes, the last 4 years have been far, far better than trump's first term by any measure you care to mention, except maybe hate, lies and fear.

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by consumer451 »

consumer451 wrote: post #18

Tim Onion's (Ben Collins) statement on Bluesky: [0] > Hi everyone. > The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. > We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. > We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. > I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up. Next post: [1] > Does anybody need millions of dollars worth of…

Please note that Bsky servers appear to be suffering under the load of 15 new users per second, with bursts as high 133 new users per second!

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Post by zemo »

sofixa wrote: post #6

This sounds like an Onion headline. And to add extra spice, they're actually doing it for a good cause, educating about gun safety in cooperation with nonprofits and the families of children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre. Obligatory fuck Alex Jones with a bat with rusty barbed wire. He profited off the misery of murdered kids, this is beyond low.

The first time I heard about it was from an Onion headline about it: https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/

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Post by tantalor »

from-nibly wrote: post #384

> “By divesting Jones of Infowars’ assets, the families and the team at The Onion have done a public service and will meaningfully hinder Jones’s ability to do more harm,” How hard is it really to start a new podcast?

IANAL but isn't it going to be very hard for Jones to meaningfully profit from a podcast, or anything really?

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Post by dmd »

dogleash wrote: post #235
josefresco wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The core idea of satire, which is often missed in supposedly satirical works is that you should not only make fun of the thing you don't believe, but you should also explain what you do believe under the cover of pretending to dismiss it. I often suggest that satire is a dangerous double edged sword and not a good primary vehicle for positive change. Part of your audience will understand it's satire, but a signific…

> I believe we ask and expect too much of satire Yes, if you expect anything from satire you expect too much. Let it be art, not propaganda. Allow yourself to find poor execution of agreeable messages distasteful. Allow yourself to enjoy good execution of messages you disagree with.

You can execute the message "We think you, and people like you, should be killed" as well as you like, I'm still not going to enjoy it.
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