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Here’s Why I Decided to Buy 'InfoWars' [The Onion, but real news]
- xhkkffbf 2y agoWas anyone bidding against the Onion?
- davidt84 2y agoAlex Jones was apparently involved somehow in a competing bid. There may have been others.
- barbazoo 2y agoWho is Alex Jones? /s
- r00fus 2y agoa forgettable man with an already-forgotten name
- barbazoo 2y agoexactly
- VTimofeenko 2y agoBut credit is where credit's due -- not a bad Danzig impersonator
- travisporter 2y agoFellow anglophiles or British - is your Alex Jones a household name?
- 4rt 2y agoi've heard of her, she's been on mainstream tv for a long time doing a sort of morning tv job on one of the top few channels. edit: i looked her up, its "The One Show" a sort of after-work magazine style show on BBC1. i've not had a TV license for 4-5 years so i can only remember the programme format (and her strong welsh accent).
- mdp2021 2y agoA very nice Welsh lady; she presents The One Show for the BBC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones_(Welsh_presenter) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones_(Welsh_presenter) You must got confused because she has been on Would I Lie to You.
- RIMR 2y ago[flagged]
- idiotsecant 2y agoLike....
- z3ncyberpunk 2y agoLike how the onion didn't actually but the site?
- RIMR 2y agoThey absolutely did buy the site. I was moreso commenting on the "we plan to collect the entire stock of the InfoWars warehouses into a large vat and boil the contents down into a single candy bar–sized omnivitamin that one executive (I will not name names) may eat in order to increase his power and perhaps become immortal" part of the article, but you can believe whatever part of the article you want to I guess.
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoRelated: The Onion Buys Alex Jones's Infowars Out of Bankruptcy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42136259 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42136259
- datavirtue 2y agoI remember when Infowars started. I was using rense.com for my daily news fix and was thoroughly caught up in conspiracy theories and all number of speculation around aliens interbreeding with humans...way before it was cool. I became an anti-semetic, pizza-gate nut job and recovered long before the droves of internet noobs even caught on or showed up. When you hear it all for the first time in isolation as a young person it is VERY compelling. When your life is devoid of wealth it is even easier to go down the rabbit hole. I used to read Alex Jones every day and was surprised to see it was still a thing in recent times and I was even more taken back at how looney it had become. Back in my day it was far more palpable. Alex Jones, Elon Musk are a few examples of what wealth, power and drugs can do to a human being. Power is the worst of all and I would never wish it on anyone.
- euroderf 2y agoAnd there was Rush Limbaugh
- datavirtue 2y agoRush brainwashed a whole generation of boomers and their parents. Alex Jones barely registers compared to the damage Rush caused.
- nixdev 2y ago[dead]
- FLT8 2y agoI'd love to hear about your recovery journey.. it seems like quite the gravity-well to have escaped from. Would you consider writing a blog post or sharing here?
- datavirtue 2y agoNothing exciting. I have always liked changing my opinions and views as I get more information. Thankfully I have an IQ that's high enough to remain curious and I don't engage in hero worship. All authority is suspect and to be tested and held accountable, in my view. I had to also pry myself out of a fundamentalist Christian upbringing before that, so... I'm an oddball, don't get excited about any hope for humanity. We have about 100 years to build the cylons before it's too late.
- steve_avery 2y agoAh, imagine that candy bar of omnivitamins! The rush of invigoration you'd get from a single morsel. Wow!
- cmxch 2y agoBecause it’s important to deny any chance for it to pass to the hands of the Wrong People(tm)
- cottalalo2001 2y ago[dead]