Making satire today is really hard. This could even be some article title on The Onion.
Reality is their biggest competitor.
The Onion buys Infowars
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The next 4 years are going to be an absolute farce in the US.
Wondering if that's what Mike Judge is waiting for: free inspiration enough for a 12 season long "Idiocracy: the series".
I don't know if I need a documentary of the times I'm living through.
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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.
I’m not a Trump supporter but clearly inflation was worse during Biden than Trump, that’s just a fact. So your claim that it’s on “any measure” is wrong.
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#765I'm very much not a fan of Q-anon and related subcultures, but the sandy-hook award of $1.5 billion is obviously ridiculous, and is clearly just a government/institutional exercise in dictatorial/systemic power. There is no possible way that someone ranting on the internet can cause 1.5 billion of emotional damage or whatever the claim was. In particular, the libel (and it should be libel, making claims that are not…
The number seems to be based on the fact that he made money of it. And if that was in the 100s of million, the fine should obviously be higher to ward of other people doing so (and not just have it as a cost of doing business). Kind of like the german movie piracy thing where the convicts had to give up thousands of bitcoin, which the state sold for more than 2 billion. (Beside the fact that in other liberal democrac…
He made 100s millions specifically from libeling the SH families?
Or his entire lifetime earnings were 100s millions?
The point is the law has been used (imho totally disproportionately) to bankrupt someone for things they said, and therefore censor them.
The same as with Thiel and Gawker.
Whether or not you agree with what they say, they should be able to say it.
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#766Jeff Lawson the founder of Twilio owns The Onion, glad he's growing his quality retirement project.
how did it feel when Saudi Arabia stole your handle? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neom
heh, I've been using neom online for over 20 years, when they announced the city people I knew from the early 2000s emailed me ha. mine is from my original irc name neomonk.
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#767Is not even funny
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#768Well not so fast the judge says: https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1857223561754059168
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#769Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand your point
Since Musk's acquisition of Twitter, it has increasingly become a right wing echo chamber and place to promote conspiracy theories. And Alex Jones' InfoWars and Elon Musk's Twitter are both likely to show you advertisements for supplements of dubious effectiveness and other generally scammy products. So yeah, Jones fits right in there.
You realize old Twitter was literally censoring things they knew to be true but politically damaging, right? Or are you still operating in 2022?
Twitter is right wing because your country (and the world) are shifting right. Sorry.
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#770I hate to burst everyone’s bubble, but this is fake news. This deal is not final. The judge in the liquidation case is holding an evidentiary hearing next week to understand how and why secret bidding was set up and why it was not open to the general public. Sounds like a BIG loss for The Onion, not to mention the potential defamation cases that could arise from news outlets publishing an unverified story about a sale that isn’t final.
Source: https://x.com/behizytweets/status/1857195724242329997