The Onion buys InfoWars

pretty much

Poetic Justice, if such a thing exists.

I just don't get why The Onion even exists. I don't read it at all, but it's all fake, right? What other reason does it exist for other than to attempt to fool the gullible into believing what they're reading?

[quote]I just don't get why The Onion even exists. I don't read it at all, but it's all fake, right? What other reason does it exist for other than to attempt to fool the gullible into believing what they're reading?

Have you asked the same question of Fox "News" ?

R3, it advertises itself as satire. Now, get out a dictionary and look up "satire," since youy clearly don't know what that is.

[quote]I just don't get why The Onion even exists. I don't read it at all, but it's all fake, right? What other reason does it exist for other than to attempt to fool the gullible into believing what they're reading?

That explains the existence of all the news channels.

I'm not knocking "The Onion" to say I don't read it as much as I used to but once upon a time, it could crack me up on the silliest things.

One of my favorites -

The Onion headlines always make me laugh.

Another onion classic

It it really buying Info Wars it is this more Onion product?

[quote] It it really buying Info Wars it is this more Onion product?

It's for real.

DL fave Ben Collins is now the CEO of The Onion. He used to be the Internet disinformation reporter for NBC and MSNBC.

It was done in conjuction with some Sandy Hook families.

[QUOTE]Advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety will be the exclusive advertiser for the launch of the website. Everytown for Gun Safety, which advocates gun-safety measures, is backed by Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg Law is operated by entities controlled by Michael Bloomberg.

[QUOTE]The group will also work with The Onion and has signed a multi-year advertising agreement for when the website relaunches, according to a press release.

Bloomberg article.

“By divesting Jones of Infowars’ assets, the families and the team at The Onion have done a public service and will meaningfully hinder Jones’ ability to do more harm,” Mattei said.

“We were told this outcome would be nearly impossible, but we are no strangers to impossible fights. The world needs to see that having a platform does not mean you are above accountability – the dissolution of Alex Jones’ assets and the death of Infowars is the justice we have long awaited and fought for,” Robbie Parker, whose daughter Emilie was killed in the Sandy Hook shooting, said in a press release.

I have always chuckled at American Voices. It's been the same pictures for a hundred years.

r14, I've always wondered about those people.

From olden times when they still had a paper version. I cackled when I saw this because he probably did this at some point.

True and funny

Fucking brilliant. I just subscribed to The Onion in support. This from NYT: While the alliance between Everytown and The Onion may seem like an odd fit, the two organizations share an interest in curbing gun violence, said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown. Mr. Feinblatt said that mission was underscored with depressing regularity in the aftermath of mass shootings, when The Onion goes viral with its oft-shared headline: “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.”

This is about my absolute favorite Onion article (it's been taken down from the website). The original article mentions Bellagio-style "dancing waters," too

[QUOTE]"Calling the current U.S. Capitol 'inadequate and obsolete,' Congress will relocate to Charlotte or Memphis if its demands for a new, state-of-the-art facility are not met," The Onion wrote in May 2002.

[QUOTE]"Don't get us wrong: We love the drafty old building," Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL) said. "But the hard reality is, it's no longer suitable for a world-class legislative branch. The sight lines are bad, there aren't enough concession stands or bathrooms, and the parking is miserable. It hurts to say, but the capitol's time has come and gone."

[QUOTE]It is likely that the editors of the Beijing Evening News did not recognize the article's reference to US professional sports franchises' demands for new stadiums. But one might think that the illustration of a proposed new capitol building with a retractable dome would suggest something odd about the Onion article.

[QUOTE]It did not. The Evening News published the story as real. And initially, even when told the story was satire, the Chinese paper's international news editor "ruled out a correction, challenging a [Los Angeles] Times reporter to prove that the story was false."

My all-time favorite

Wonderful, and a very elegant way to label the content misinformation.

wow, it is real.

You didn’t know that infowars was up for auction?

"Are Bassist Fellated"

R3, is still confused at Stephen Colbert’s total repudiation of the red-blooded patriotism he showed on The Colbert Report, but tells himself that Colbert must have done it for the pay raise he got when moving to the Late Show.

Correct, R25, because R3 reflects the stupidity that's rampant in this country. Dump is the result of one nation's astounding lack of ineducability, as reflected by R3, who is "hoist by his own retard," to paraphrase "Hamlet" and "Veep."

R26, I almost decided that R3 was trying to be really meta but the comment is too perfect not to be an honest statement.

R27, either he is really meta and maybe even writes for The Onion, or is a reflection of America in its present state.

This is brilliant, hilarious and totally meta. Unfortunately, the people who still visit InfoWars and believe the bullshit it spews probably won't get the memo and will think all the crazy conspiracy parodies on the new site are real.

What about the dildo who gave R3 the W&W?

This still makes me laugh over twenty years later.

lol, r31.

Another classic

R30, I think it’s likely a case of WW masturbation, the sweet act of self-love know as liking your own post.

Either that, R33, or there are 2 raging idiots on a thread with only 33 posts so far.

R14

And the occupations are so unhinged. The Onion makes me laugh the way National Lampoon did back in the late 70s.

"Area Parents Secretly Depressed When Son's Photo Not Found in Neighborhood Pedophile's Collection"

I was sending $100 a month for the past two years to the Biden/Harris/Walz campaign. I turned that off on November 6th.

It made my Onion Newspaper paper subscription doable.

I was on the floor. He looks like my old boss.

We have truly reached peak absurdity

[quote] Have you asked the same question of Fox "News" ?

I know full well what Fox News exists for. They are a propaganda network for the political right. Their programming consists of exaggerations, distortions and outright lies presented to their gullible and hate filled viewers in order to build up the Republican party and destroy the democratic party.

[quote] it advertises itself as satire

They can claim it's satire all they want. It's just lies and I simply don't understand why anyone would want to read crap they know is a pack of lies.

Is R40 our benighted R3?

R41, you are walking satire.

[quote] Is [R40] our benighted [R3]?

Yes. Look I may be old and out of touch, but I still don't understand any attraction people have to sources they know are nothing but lies.

But I admit I'm very happy some entity bought Info Wars and is shutting it down completely. I would be even happier if Jones was locked up in prison on the same cell block as Steve Bannon.

This one stays with me:

R44, satire is fiction. Is all fiction lies?

R41 It's for humor, like the DL.

Jesus. We now have to explain what satire and its purpose is? Some readers here are truly clueless.

R48, this person who suposedly wants us to believe they don't know the purpose of satire, parody, or fiction, is either a troll or the stupidest person on earth. Either way, they're just annoying and should be ignored.

[quote]We now have to explain what satire and its purpose is?

No we don't. Just let the poor dumb thing argue with the sky.

I guess I'm just a realist. I don't spend time on things I know to be false. Don't worry, many of you will get to that point too, if you live to an advanced age.

DL doesn't realize its beloved crotchety eldergay is being satirized on a thread about a satirical publication?

Study proves: we're fucked.

I loved this when it was first published... first Diana and then Barbra!!!

I have tens of thousands of these in storage, R54

To date, "The Onion's" September 11 coverage remains its masterpiece.

I dunno r56, I think their ongoing coverage of the insanity of America's gun culture and mass shootings is pretty masterful as well.

[quote]‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

I stopped reading The Onion when we started living it.

They had a headline about that, too, r58.

Something about them closing up shop because reality had outdone anything they could think up as satire.

[quote] They can claim it's satire all they want. It's just lies and I simply don't understand why anyone would want to read crap they know is a pack of lies.

R41 Do you understand what a joke is? (Asking in seriousness.) If you don't, ... I am sorry.

[quote]Now, get out a dictionary and look up "satire," since youy clearly don't know what that is.

And then look up "sarcasm."

Sure, R61, you can pass it off as sarcasm. I did say upthread it could be almost be a writer from The Onion. I did give that benefit of a doubt. But sarcasm doesn't really read as well as it sounds, dear.

Are they closing it down or merely going to create new content?

How hilarious would it be if The Onion was the source of all InfoWars stories and their base actually believed it. I mean, the crap they already believe is essentially The Onion anyway.

r59, that was the day satire died.

Has it evolved into ironic reporting?

r23 I knew but didn't think "the onion" would buy it.

This transaction deeply satisfies.. During the quarantine, Jones was recorded screaming at girls who were wearing masks while visiting a local park. This occurred deep in the pandemic. We do not have tests or vaccines then. The schools were closed. The park was really the only place available for visiting.

Think again if you believe a creep like this would find his voice to scream on anyone else other than teen girls.

R67, don't forget Sandy Hook.

[quote]don't forget Sandy Hook.

Was she one of the girls he screamed at?

She was!

Sorry, I meant R68.

The buy might be held back.

how much did they pay?

So funny. Infowars was put to auction at the request of the Sandy Hook Parents. In their settlement, THEY received Infowars as part of the Alex Jones Assets. THEY are the ones who approved the auction and THEY are the ones who approved the final sale to The Onion.

If the sale is voided, 1] The Parents might move to sever the Infowars INTELLECTUAL property, including past broadcasts, from the physical property, like the studios and put them up to auction separately. 2] The parents might move to redo the auction and let Republican dark money flood the Sandy Hook Parents with BILLIONS of dollars and a payoff to the Jones crap.

I hope the sale is verified and documented.

Money!

Oh, shit. Guess who just muddied the waters? I'm sure you can guess who it is without looking at the preview. Reminds me of Hulk Hogan and Gawker. I'm sure the Texas judge's honor is unassailable.

[QUOTE]But this week, the Texas bankruptcy judge overhearing the case voiced concerns about the transparency of the auction process and called for a new hearing to discuss those potential issues.

[QUOTE]"Nobody should feel comfortable with the results of the auction,” Judge Christopher M. Lopez said, according to a Bloomberg News report.

[QUOTE]The X Corp. filing, dated Nov. 14 and first reported by Mother Jones, does not disclose the purpose of X’s appearance, other than to state the rights reserved to it as an interested party, and to request all relevant documents in the case.

Because that apartheid cunt is IN Jones’s emails.

The Onion bought that hell hole, lock stock and barrel which means the SERVERS AND EVERYTHING ON THOSE SERVERS.

This includes emails and attachments to and from pricks like apartheid asshole, Roger Stone, all domestic terror groups (“militias”), Flynn, etc.

The Onion owns it and it gets turned over to the FBI, CIA, Interpol and the Five Eyes. Pandora’s box of conspiracy links, possible crimes and a murder board of scumbags.

Remember fat Jones’s face when he realized IN COURT that all of his emails had been turned over to the Sandy Hook prosecutor?

He knew then that he was fucked because he’s been emailing a bunch of cunts who are involved in treason.

Cunts

Elon Muck.

Somebody has to do something about all the problems.

So are Musk's lawyers going to claim his intellectual property is on Info Wars servers?

He can claim whatever he wants, but bankruptcies are typically handled the same way and the auction is public notice in newspapers (yes, still).

If the person owes the IRS, the IRS gets paid first from any proceeds.

If the auction was public notice and now cunt Leon is butt hurt that he missed out, that’s tough shit for him. Maybe he should mind is own fucking business and pay attention instead of trying to bully people on his shitty site and rig elections.

he's disgusting

Wow, R80, that's a deep thought.

A federal judge in Texas rejected the sale.

Thanks for the update, r85

Well, fuck, r85!

That’s a bunch of bullshit. Texas and their corrupt “justice system”

More on the garbage ruling.

Leon made it go away. He wants to buy InfoWar and protect any info it has on him.

And it has plenty, r89.

All of those servers with the EMAILS TO AND FROM cunts like Stone, Bannon, Russian twats, marching orders from the money people.

It’s all there, just waiting to be bought.