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The announcement by America's Finest News Source: https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/ https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-info
by jsheard 2y ago
The announcement by America's Finest News Source: https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/ https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/
Alex Jones response: https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1857058831135645739 https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1857058831135645739
- mvidal01 2y agoThis is great!
- mtmail 2y agoReading the article didn't give me any confidence it's actually real/true. Which could be seen as a compliment.
- ixtli 2y agoIt is actually true! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/business/media/alex-jones-infowars-the-onion.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/business/media/alex-jones...
- hoppyhoppy2 2y agoNo-paywall link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/business/media/alex-jones-infowars-the-onion.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z04.01dE.dRPqDdLbhSa4&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/business/media/alex-jones...
- tgv 2y agoWonderful news. I'm glad their CEO recognizes the great value of CEOs. My only worry is that this acquisition makes Global Tetraeder so large that it attracts the attention of those pesky EU bureaucrats, who will want to split it up into multiple imperfect solids.
- admksx45v65uqpw 2y ago[dead]
- arethuza 2y agoIf Brexit taught me anything it was that the correct phrase is pesky unelected EU bureaucrats!
- soco 2y agoNow if we want to get into dirty details, no bureaucrat is ever elected. You elect the representatives, and they nominate in turn whoever bureaucrats they feel comfy to work with. Or is this in the UK different?
- vidarh 2y agoYes, but that is not the point. The point is it was a favorite attack point used by Brexit supporters. A whole lot of the accusations against the EU applied just as much - sometimes much more - to the UK itself.
- notahacker 2y agoWe have people who frothed at the mouth over the role played by unelected bureaucrats now frothing at the mouth at proposals to remove the last hereditary Lords from our legislature... (in fairness, those people tend to hate the Civil Service in the UK too. And they're elected hereditary Lords, albeit via a franchise consisting entirely of other hereditary Lords)
- dmurray 2y agoHow few people need to vote to appoint someone before they're considered "unelected'"? The 805 Lords? The 538 of the US electoral college? The 121 Cardinals of the Conclave? The 101 of the American Senate? The 27 EU Commissioners?
- rightbyte 2y agoSeems like the article is really gleeful. Somewhat ironic since The Onion could be brought down in the same way by defamation lawsuits.
- afavour 2y ago> Seems like the article is really gleeful. Good! It should be. Alex Jones is a ghoul making money from dead school shooting victims. Anything that embarrasses him is entitled to as much glee as it wants.
- rightbyte 2y agoYes and he profits from fooling mentally ill people. Selling homeopatic pills and whatever. But I think the right to be wrong is way more important than getting at Alexander Jones. The precedent is bad.
- nixdev 2y ago[flagged]
- anotherhue 2y agoWhich part do you think is made up? https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/we-sent-alex-jones-infowars-supplements-to-a-lab-heres https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/we-sent-a...
- nixdev 2y ago[flagged]
- anotherhue 2y agoLook, I'm a nix fan and a former SRE which seems to be a similar background to you. I obviously don't have details but I think it's clear you're not in a good headspace, if you can, would you consider taking a short break and going for a walk or something? HN will still be here.
- AdamN 2y agoAlex Jones using Twitter/X is on-brand.
- ixtli 2y agoI hadn't realized how hilarious this is until now
- pipeline_peak 2y ago> Twitter/X Why not call it one or the other?
- chairmansteve 2y agoCall it Twitter. Everyone knows what you mean, and it annoys Elon.
- seanw444 2y agoI'm not even your average Elon hater, and I still think X is a stupid name. Dude should've just kept the name and brand that everyone knows already.
- slt2021 2y agoold good ole Twitter was when your feed was only those you followed. new X is when your feed what Elon wants you to see and react to.
- pohl 2y agoI was pleasantly surprised to discover that Bluesky behaves like the Twitter of yore where you see only who you follow.
- Sohcahtoa82 2y agoThis is misleading. At the top of the feed, there are two tabs: "For you" and "Following". If you select "Following", then you only see people you follow.
- reaperducer 2y agothey are shutting us down even without a court order this morning He seems surprised. I guess losing a multi-year court case, being fined $1,500,000,000.00 by a jury, and going through bankruptcy court wasn't enough of a warning?
- delusional 2y agoPart of the MO of these outrage merchants is that they simultaneously claim that the government perpetrate the most vile acts (killing children, poisoning the water, false flag attacks) while also acting outraged and surprised that they'd do something as mundane as ignore a procedure.
- wmoxam 2y agoIt's a grifting method. Provoke outrage among the less informed and watch the money roll in
- chvid 2y agoI guess this is about the domain name infowars.com which belongs to a bankrupt company. Alex Jones is such a big name and has other channels (x.com, Joe Rogan etc.) that he can easily build a similar site/business under a new domain name. Perhaps The Onion should ask - who gets most promotion of this?
- plorg 2y agoThe 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.
- ackbar03 2y ago... Infowars had a supplements business?
- bbor 2y agoOh man, you're in for a treat. Look up some videos on youtube, the classic being John Oliver's 2017 piece; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyGq6cjcc3Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyGq6cjcc3Q . He's adjacent to the newly mainstream right, yes, but he's been around for a long time as a more radical+fringe actor, and has all the baggage that goes along with that. A good portion (most?) of his money was made from selling vaguely anti-GMO and pro-masculinity products sold with a heavy dose of "big pharma doesn't want you to know this one trick". They ranged from insane horse bone dust stuff to plain overpriced vitamins; https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/we-sent-alex-jones-infowars-supplements-to-a-lab-heres https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/we-sent-a...
- Hikikomori 2y agoAnd the Knowledge Fight podcast if you really, really wanna get into it. Almost 1000 episodes now. https://knowledgefight.com https://knowledgefight.com Behind the bastards also has a few that are good summaries if you want something shorter, with the Knowledge Fight guys as guests.
- sed_zeppelin 2y agoOn a whim, I decided to peek at the InfoWars homepage. At this moment, I cannot determine which of the headlines are genuine InfoWars content and which are the product of Onion writers. (I assume it's genuine due to the recency of the sale closing?)
- nixdev 2y ago[flagged]
- afavour 2y agowhoops, looks like you let the mask slip! I see you started this thread debating the merits of trust in the court system, I'm relieved we've finally got to the crux of it. You consume and identify with the kind of crank material Infowars publishes. Thank you for letting us know.
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- nixdev 2y ago[flagged]
- ziddoap 2y ago3 replies to a single comment, and you're doing this all over this thread. You're almost 10% of the comments here, and there's a lot of comments. Might be good to take a step back for a few minutes/hours.
- nixdev 2y ago[flagged]
- afavour 2y ago> Alex Jones was declared to be in default for failing to provide a document that never existed in the first place. You've said this numerous times. It isn't true. > In her ruling, Bellis criticized Jones’ attorney for providing only “sanitized, inaccurate” financial records and showed “callous disregard” for her repeated rulings to provide complete analytics data. She found Jones’ attorneys actions “were not just careful” but constituted “a pattern of obstructive conduct” requiring the most severe sanction of default, what she called a “last resort,” as reported by the Hartford Courant. https://firstamendmentwatch.org/judge-finds-alex-jones-liable-by-default-in-sandy-hook-elementary-defamation-suit/ https://firstamendmentwatch.org/judge-finds-alex-jones-liabl... It was for a pattern of behavior, not any single document. Speaking of patterns of behavior, you've now left three increasingly unhinged replies to my single comment. Whatever impression it is you're trying to create, I don't think it's working.
- Maken 2y agoI like how he still tries to sell his merchandise until the very last moment.
- plorg 2y agoHe has for some time been telling his listeners to buy supplements from a new company set up in his father's name that is a thin cutout for the one ostensibly run by himself. It seems likely a good lawyer could pierce that corporate veil and go after the new company, but I don't know if that has happened.
- Suppafly 2y ago> It seems likely a good lawyer could pierce that corporate veil and go after the new company, but I don't know if that has happened. He's spent the whole time since losing the lawsuit illegally shifting assets to his parents and they bankruptcy courts haven't seemed to be able to stop that.
- Conscat 2y agoFor what it's worth, a lawyer _did_ ask the presiding Judge Christopher Lopez to tell Alex Jones he definitely can't do that and solidify this in writing the terms of bankruptcy, and the judge simply refused to even try on the basis that everyone involved is an adult and ought to know better.
- sharpshadow 2y agoIt’s standard practice to let somebody else own your things when you are in a position that don’t allow you to have something. It’s not provable easily and if it’s justice to charge him 1.4B for talking some shit it’s also justice to use the loopholes of the system.
- ryandrake 2y agoThat and the defiance, conspiracies, deep state, freedom-fighter verbal diarrhea until the bitter end. You almost get the feeling that he actually believes it all.
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- kristopolous 2y agoI like the twitter comments. They're already baking how it's part of the secret globalist plot. See also https://reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/ https://reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/ if you haven't yet.
- mooreds 2y ago"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." Glorious.
- brabel 2y agoThat part hurt a little bit, recently had to start looking at family just like this.
- WarOnPrivacy 2y agoIt felt like coming home here.
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- JKCalhoun 2y ago"They are a true unicorn, capable of simultaneously inspiring public support for billionaires and stoking outrage at an inept federal state that can assassinate JFK but can’t even put a man on the Moon."
- bityard 2y agoThat is the funniest thing I have read in a very long time.
- xenospn 2y agoI’m cracking up
- glonq 2y agoWow, crazy to watch all the bootlickers and nutters in his feed who are angry about this.
- QuercusMax 2y agoThey're all "verified" (paid) accounts too, which is why Twitter is such a cesspool. They sort paid accounts to the top.
- bandyaboot 2y agoFreemium speech?
- pacomerh 2y agoright, I was reading their comments, I cannot believe it. But hey, if you view the world like that, guys like Alex will always prosper and have a crowd.
- thecosas 2y agoTruly a great piece of satirical writing on The Onion. Just one example: > With a shrewd mix of delusional paranoia and dubious anti-aging nutrition hacks, they strive to make life both scarier and longer for everyone, a commendable goal.
- that_guy_iain 2y agoI saw the onion post and didnt really believe it.
- emchammer 2y agoI'm hoping that Department Head Rawlings and Jim Anchower will return as contributors. When did T. Herman Zweibel pass the reins to Bryce P. Tetraeder?
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- agumonkey 2y agoHow can Jones respond this way when families are backing that. Does this qualify as insanity or more like bottomless greed ?
- briantakita 2y agoThere was an emergency hearing to challenge the sale to the onion. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/not-funny-onion-buys-infowars-bankruptcy-auction https://www.zerohedge.com/political/not-funny-onion-buys-inf...
- keepamovin 2y agoThis has been halted due a judge deciding it was a private sale masquerading as an auction: https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1857290045536780334 https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1857290045536780334
- Kye 2y agoIs there a credible source on this?
- keepamovin 2y agoYeah, this one. Why?
- Kye 2y agoAre you doing a bit? I can't tell.
- keepamovin 2y agoYou can't tell what's credible.
- probably_wrong 2y agoI don't want to link to paywalled sources, but yes, multiple outlets are reporting that the sale has been halted until next week to ensure that the process was fair.
- yaksha 2y agohttps://apnews.com/article/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-6496f198d141c991087dcd937b3588e9 https://apnews.com/article/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-64... "Walter Cicack, an attorney for First United American Companies, told U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez that Murray changed the auction process only days before, deciding not to hold a round Wednesday where parties could outbid each other. Sealed bids were submitted last week, and the trustee chose only from those, Cicack said." "“We’re all going to an evidentiary hearing and I’m going to figure out exactly what happened,” he said. “No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction.” An exact date of next week’s hearing was not immediately set. After the hearing, Jones said on his show that he thought the auction was unfairly rigged and expressed optimism that the judge would nullify the sale."
- codeulike 2y agoFounded in 1999 on the heels of the Satanic “panic” and growing steadily ever since, InfoWars has distinguished itself as an invaluable tool for brainwashing and controlling the masses. With a shrewd mix of delusional paranoia and dubious anti-aging nutrition hacks, they strive to make life both scarier and longer for everyone, a commendable goal. They are a true unicorn, capable of simultaneously inspiring public support for billionaires and stoking outrage at an inept federal state that can assassinate JFK but can’t even put a man on the Moon. Perfect
- ttonkytonk 2y agoI hope Mr. Tetraheder remembers to make any accounts permanent regardless of the wishes of the members - nothing like a permanent asset.