Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’ By Bryce P. Tetraeder, Global Tetrahedron CEO ☞ https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/
And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, interchangeable assets for their patriarch to absorb and discard according to the opaque whims of the market. And just like family members, our brands regard one another with mutual suspicion and malice.
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Wait, is it real?
This is the best thing that’s ever happened
Counterpoint, it was already stupid.
Yes, but this time it will be on purpose.
Wait, what? Which parts of this are satire now? I read the Onion piece that Global Tetrahedron was purchasing InfoWars, but this is a Guardian story saying The Onion is purchasing it? I’m a bit confused.
It’s on APNews too - it’s real
It’s not satire, they are purchasing it for real.
Finally some good news!
Listen, I keep saying that reality is better satire than satire, BUT COME ON!
Lol I am so happy about this.
This was not on my bingo card.
Gaetz?
i’ve just read that quote
Fucking awesome. Onion has been hitting it hard lately, and this is just the cherry on top. I am hopeful this makes some chuds question their minds.
That pushed me over the edge to subscribe to the print edition
Will anyone visiting know the difference?
The onion is a satirical takes on the news. Infowars is just utter nonsense.
Infowars could claim that immigrants are using teleporters to enter the country and its readership would believe it.
Yeah, that’s my point. The idiots visiting it won’t get satire.
Probably depends on whether they see a difference between intentional and unintentional satire.
Info Wars might actually become credible
Wouldn’t that be ironic
Alanis Morrisette plays
Who did they give money to? Maybe it would’ve been better if they just created a offbrand infowars.
It was being auctioned for the victims but there was also the real risk that a supporter would win who would let him he continue on business as usual. So definitely money well spent.
Probably the money paid for whomever Alex Jones lost lawsuits against – so like Sandy Hook victims.
The sale follows a judge’s order earlier this year for Jones to liquidate his personal assets, to help him to pay off the $1.4bn he was ordered to pay the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting…
I believe this money goes to the victims’ families
The assets were auctioned off to pay his debt to the families of the Sandy Hook shooting.
So effectively they gave money to the families of children killed in a school shooting that he slandered in cruel and vile ways.Given that the families pretty reasonably dislike him, the added bonus of his creation being used to openly mock him and promote a message they endorse is quality icing on the cake.
One thing the headlines aren’t mentioning is that the families actually even helped fund a portion of the Onion’s bid.
In order to make the bid work, a lawyer representing the families told CNN that the families “agreed to forgo a portion of their recovery to increase the overall value of the Onion’s bid, enabling its success”.
Ha! I didn’t see that at first. I love “fuck you so hard that we can and will put a significant dollar value on it being more humiliating”.
Ha!
I hope they keep Alex Jones’s communism financing operation going.
Remember Stephen Colbert’s satire? Conservatives loved him.
Satire of something already completely outlandish is problematic.
What problem did that cause? It only made everyone else laugh at them harder.
You could accidentally create new conspiracies, that people legitimately believe.
I don’t think that ever happened with Colbert, did it?
People’s definitely agreed with and used his lines of argument, even though he intended them humorously. I don’t know if he put out any conspiracy theories.
What was the “gut” thing again?
I just don’t think the people who believed him and used his lines of argument were taken seriously either except by people who were already in their bubble and weren’t going to come out.
I’m too tired to make this witty but something about it leading to the MAGA movement being a bubble
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it’s when there are problems
