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A million dollars a year for... what? A gag that fans of infowars won't watch, and there aren't enough anti-fans to appreciate? It feels personal at this point.

vor_ 6mo ago
Because it's funny that The Onion will be taking over InfoWars.
- MiscIdeaMaker99 6mo ago
  And I'm _still_ laughing. LOL
watwut 6mo ago
> It feels personal at this point. It is openly and proudly personal. It is also political, also openly.
- unconed 6mo ago
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  - Pay08 6mo ago
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  - Arodex 6mo ago
    So, amongst all the things that happened and happening right now, you think "someone is incredibly petty against Alex Jones" is worth spending your time complaining about. Alex Jones, the one who harassed mass shooting survivors.
  - pjc50 6mo ago
    As opposed to the Alex Jones show, a Two Minute Hate for rightwingers? These people love to dish it out but can't take it when someone else uses their tactics against them.
  - jjj123 6mo ago
    Seems appropriate for satirists to do a petty attack on a bad man. That’s kind of the whole thing, isn’t it? I’d rather it be collective action that produces real change, but humor is cathartic so I’ll take it.
  - Angostura 6mo ago
    Pause for a moment. Do you have young kids? Imagine for a moment that they were slaughtered in a mass shooting and a bunch of people made money by launching a harassment campaign targeting you as a liar who probably never had kids, or alternatively used them as paid actors. Imagine this campaign went on for years. And someone repurpose one of the instigator’s web sites as a humour outlet is the issue that leaves a bad taste in your mouth?
luke727 6mo ago
Not to mention Alex Jones is still up and running elsewhere spreading his nonsense and hawking his merch. So it's a cute gag, I guess, and gets the Sandy Hook families some money, but doesn't really change the status quo.
- aqme28 6mo ago
  I disagree. It's a lot better than if it were bought by simply a different far-right media outlet. This keeps it out of that ecosystem, which I think is a really good thing.
  - luke727 6mo ago
    It's just a domain name. The Onion taking it over does virtually nothing to impact Alex Jone's reach.
    - tekknik 6mo ago
      Then the point was to send a message, which brings it back to being biased. I’m not a fan of Alex Jones but I am a fan of people making their own decisions about what content they consume. This sets a dangerous precedent that fundamentally stifles free speech. I wonder how long it will take Republicans to pull this on Democrats, which means this tit-for-tat back and forth will never end.
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HerbManic 6mo ago
Tim heidecker summarised their thinking wonderfully. "I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity”.
- tekknik 6mo ago
  why don’t they do this with the rest of the internet? there’s plenty of properties worse than infowars. like say 4chan.
jayd16 6mo ago
Think of it as a million dollar ad buy.
- yread 6mo ago
  Or a charitable gift to Sandy Hook families
reedf1 6mo ago
> It feels personal at this point. Fucking hell that's a funny line.
gundamdoubleO 6mo ago
It's funny
ChrisRR 6mo ago
> It feels personal at this point. Of course it's personal. Alex Jones is an arsehole manufacturing outrage for profit. Being made fun of is the least of his problems
jdub 6mo ago
> It feels personal at this point. Yeah, it seems hard to believe that anyone would take Alex Jones' behaviour so personally. He only suggested that the murder of 20 young children and 6 adults in a school shooting was faked for political reasons. (Are you serious?!)
sophacles 6mo ago
It is personal. He intentionally lied about the parents of dead children. Thats as personal of an attack as it gets. Of course those parents are going to take it personally and go after the sick pile of shit who lied about them.
kkkqkqkqkqlqlql 6mo ago
Oh, that so sad, can someone please think of the fascist grifters?

vor_ 6mo ago

Because it's funny that The Onion will be taking over InfoWars.

MiscIdeaMaker99 6mo ago
And I'm _still_ laughing. LOL

watwut 6mo ago

> It feels personal at this point. It is openly and proudly personal. It is also political, also openly.

unconed 6mo ago
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- Pay08 6mo ago
  [flagged]
- Arodex 6mo ago
  So, amongst all the things that happened and happening right now, you think "someone is incredibly petty against Alex Jones" is worth spending your time complaining about. Alex Jones, the one who harassed mass shooting survivors.
- pjc50 6mo ago
  As opposed to the Alex Jones show, a Two Minute Hate for rightwingers? These people love to dish it out but can't take it when someone else uses their tactics against them.
- jjj123 6mo ago
  Seems appropriate for satirists to do a petty attack on a bad man. That’s kind of the whole thing, isn’t it? I’d rather it be collective action that produces real change, but humor is cathartic so I’ll take it.
- Angostura 6mo ago
  Pause for a moment. Do you have young kids? Imagine for a moment that they were slaughtered in a mass shooting and a bunch of people made money by launching a harassment campaign targeting you as a liar who probably never had kids, or alternatively used them as paid actors. Imagine this campaign went on for years. And someone repurpose one of the instigator’s web sites as a humour outlet is the issue that leaves a bad taste in your mouth?

luke727 6mo ago

Not to mention Alex Jones is still up and running elsewhere spreading his nonsense and hawking his merch. So it's a cute gag, I guess, and gets the Sandy Hook families some money, but doesn't really change the status quo.

aqme28 6mo ago
I disagree. It's a lot better than if it were bought by simply a different far-right media outlet. This keeps it out of that ecosystem, which I think is a really good thing.
- luke727 6mo ago
  It's just a domain name. The Onion taking it over does virtually nothing to impact Alex Jone's reach.
  - tekknik 6mo ago
    Then the point was to send a message, which brings it back to being biased. I’m not a fan of Alex Jones but I am a fan of people making their own decisions about what content they consume. This sets a dangerous precedent that fundamentally stifles free speech. I wonder how long it will take Republicans to pull this on Democrats, which means this tit-for-tat back and forth will never end.
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HerbManic 6mo ago

Tim heidecker summarised their thinking wonderfully. "I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity”.

tekknik 6mo ago
why don’t they do this with the rest of the internet? there’s plenty of properties worse than infowars. like say 4chan.

jayd16 6mo ago

Think of it as a million dollar ad buy.

yread 6mo ago
Or a charitable gift to Sandy Hook families

reedf1 6mo ago

> It feels personal at this point. Fucking hell that's a funny line.

gundamdoubleO 6mo ago

It's funny

ChrisRR 6mo ago

> It feels personal at this point. Of course it's personal. Alex Jones is an arsehole manufacturing outrage for profit. Being made fun of is the least of his problems

jdub 6mo ago

> It feels personal at this point. Yeah, it seems hard to believe that anyone would take Alex Jones' behaviour so personally. He only suggested that the murder of 20 young children and 6 adults in a school shooting was faked for political reasons. (Are you serious?!)

sophacles 6mo ago

It is personal. He intentionally lied about the parents of dead children. Thats as personal of an attack as it gets. Of course those parents are going to take it personally and go after the sick pile of shit who lied about them.

kkkqkqkqkqlqlql 6mo ago

Oh, that so sad, can someone please think of the fascist grifters?