4 ms·

When this all started, the Onion released a priceless 'press statement': "Through it all, InfoWars has shown an unswerving commitment to manufacturing anger an

by qnleigh 6mo ago

When this all started, the Onion released a priceless 'press statement': "Through it all, InfoWars has shown an unswerving commitment to manufacturing anger and radicalizing the most vulnerable members of society—values that resonate deeply with all of us at Global Tetrahedron. No price would be too high for such a cornucopia of malleable assets and minds. And yet, in a stroke of good fortune, a formidable special interest group has outwitted the hapless owner of InfoWars (a forgettable man with an already-forgotten name) and forced him to sell it at a steep bargain: less than one trillion dollars..." Full statement here https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/ https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/

glimshe 6mo ago
https://babylonbee.com/news/alex-jones-worried-people-will-start-to-think-stories-reported-by-infowars-are-fake https://babylonbee.com/news/alex-jones-worried-people-will-s...
- win2k 6mo ago
  Babylon Bee forces you to accept cookies to use their site. Worth avoiding.
  - LightBug1 6mo ago
    I shut that site down as soon as I saw that. Gross.
  - Traster 6mo ago
    As with all silly internet block BS, simply reload the site and hit escape before the cookie banner loads.
    - vasco 6mo ago
      Or just inspect element + press delete. In some cases you also need to then delete an extra gray overlay and re-enable scroll on the base html tag, but takes 30s
      - Forgeties79 6mo ago
        Seems like a lot of work to browse a site that makes a good joke once every month or so.
    - latexr 6mo ago
      > reload the site and hit escape What exactly does that do? Which web browser? I’m on mobile right now, so can’t test.
      - win2k 6mo ago
        I'm on Firefox and it did nothing for me. The popup came up so fast between me refreshing and hitting escape. Alternatively, you can disable JavaScript on the website. That lets me view it.
      - chrisldgk 6mo ago
        I would suppose it interrupts the page load after streaming the HTML and before loading and/or executing the cookie banner‘s javascript, meaning the content is there but the cookie banner will never open.
      - Traster 6mo ago
        On Chrome on desktop it stops the (slow) javascript running which is what actually loads the blocker. You need a fast finger.
  - palmotea 6mo ago
    > Babylon Bee forces you to accept cookies to use their site. Worth avoiding. Use uBlock and block javascript by default with NoScript. I saw nothing about cookies and just got the article.
  - deleted 6mo ago
    [deleted]
lynx97 6mo ago
[flagged]
- franga2000 6mo ago
  What exactly is patronizing here? Or is it just calling them the most vulnerable?
- wutwutwat 6mo ago
  The list you just thought up trying to argue about literal jokes from a literal joke making company tells us more about you and your opinions regarding others than it says about the joke the joke making company made
  - lynx97 6mo ago
    Hear hear, what does it tell you about my "options about others"? Mind you, I am a member of one of the groups I mentioned. So, go on, make a joke about vulnerability, you seem to be the right person for this.
    - wutwutwat 6mo ago
      Sorry, you're going to have to take the combative attitude and need to argue with people and direct it somewhere else. I have real shit to deal with in my life that needs my attention. Hope you find your peace.
54aJh 6mo ago
The Onion is satire, so ... But Alex Jones is currently busy with Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and others to bitterly criticize Trump for the Iran war. Trump retaliated by calling all of them "low IQ". Given that Carlson's media company has an investment from the ubiquitous 1789 Capital (Thiel and Trump Jr.), we don't know if this is theater to keep the isolationist MAGA in the fold. It could also be that they sacrifice Trump in order to accelerate Thiel's and Vance's technocracy. Anyway, these influencers are still useful for their masters.
- towledev 6mo ago
  [flagged]
  - nathanmills 6mo ago
    [flagged]
- afavour 6mo ago
  They’re just reading polls and reacting accordingly. There’s no principle involved.
  - lesuorac 6mo ago
    Literally no principal involved. Tucker will take any position for money see his entire career! Plus the guy was advocating the administration should attack Iran for attempting to assassinate trump.
    - ourmandave 6mo ago
      I dunno, he's pretty consistent as a white nationalist. Having to take unscheduled vacations from Fox News over some of his more racist comments.
      - lesuorac 6mo ago
        > I dunno, he's pretty consistent as a white nationalist. > ... Fox News ... Sure but can you link some white nationalist clips when he was the host of Crossfire [1] for 5 years? Like he's just not principled. If he were to re-join Fox News and Fox were to pivot to being a competitor to BET [2] his comments would change immediately. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_(American_TV_program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_(American_TV_program... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BET
helsinkiandrew 6mo ago
Brilliant plans for the future: https://theonion.info/?p=1 https://theonion.info/?p=1 > Such is the InfoWars I envision: An infinite virtual surface teeming with ads. Not just ads, but scams! Not just scams, but lies with no object, free radical misinformation, sentences and images so poorly thought out that they are unhealthy even to view for just a few seconds. The InfoWars of old was only the prototype for the hell I know we can build together: A digital platform where, every day, visitors sacrifice themselves at altars of delusion and misery, their minds fully disintegrating on contact.
- api 6mo ago
  Makes me think of the old Monty Python joke so funny it kills everyone skit. Which makes me think of a thread years ago I saw on the modern equivalent: a meme so offensive (to literally everyone at once) nobody can see it without having an anger induced aneurism. The skit would be a comical updated take on the Python skit. A hardened memelord shitposter troll is found dead in his basement, surrounded by rotted pizza boxes, empty energy drink cans, and penis enlargement pills. He had been working for years to create a meme that would simultaneously offend everyone. Something is on his screen. The person who finds it immediately flies into a rage so extreme they have an immediate brain aneurism and die. "We showed the meme to the most hardened Nazi edgelord trolls we could find on the worst Discords, Chans, and Telegram channels. Most did not survive. Some were saved by medical intervention but sustained severe brain damage..."
  - rescripting 6mo ago
    See also, the children’s book Fluffy McWhiskers Cuteness Explosion.
  - cwillu 6mo ago
    See also: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
  - The_Blade 6mo ago
    it makes me think of The Entertainment from Infinite Jest, where the new Infowars just kills everyone who observes it by rendering them unable to do anything else, even make an agent for it

by qnleigh 6mo ago

glimshe 6mo ago

https://babylonbee.com/news/alex-jones-worried-people-will-start-to-think-stories-reported-by-infowars-are-fake https://babylonbee.com/news/alex-jones-worried-people-will-s...

win2k 6mo ago
Babylon Bee forces you to accept cookies to use their site. Worth avoiding.
- LightBug1 6mo ago
  I shut that site down as soon as I saw that. Gross.
- Traster 6mo ago
  As with all silly internet block BS, simply reload the site and hit escape before the cookie banner loads.
  - vasco 6mo ago
    Or just inspect element + press delete. In some cases you also need to then delete an extra gray overlay and re-enable scroll on the base html tag, but takes 30s
    - Forgeties79 6mo ago
      Seems like a lot of work to browse a site that makes a good joke once every month or so.
  - latexr 6mo ago
    > reload the site and hit escape What exactly does that do? Which web browser? I’m on mobile right now, so can’t test.
    - win2k 6mo ago
      I'm on Firefox and it did nothing for me. The popup came up so fast between me refreshing and hitting escape. Alternatively, you can disable JavaScript on the website. That lets me view it.
    - chrisldgk 6mo ago
      I would suppose it interrupts the page load after streaming the HTML and before loading and/or executing the cookie banner‘s javascript, meaning the content is there but the cookie banner will never open.
    - Traster 6mo ago
      On Chrome on desktop it stops the (slow) javascript running which is what actually loads the blocker. You need a fast finger.
- palmotea 6mo ago
  > Babylon Bee forces you to accept cookies to use their site. Worth avoiding. Use uBlock and block javascript by default with NoScript. I saw nothing about cookies and just got the article.
- deleted 6mo ago
  [deleted]

lynx97 6mo ago

[flagged]

franga2000 6mo ago
What exactly is patronizing here? Or is it just calling them the most vulnerable?
wutwutwat 6mo ago
The list you just thought up trying to argue about literal jokes from a literal joke making company tells us more about you and your opinions regarding others than it says about the joke the joke making company made
- lynx97 6mo ago
  Hear hear, what does it tell you about my "options about others"? Mind you, I am a member of one of the groups I mentioned. So, go on, make a joke about vulnerability, you seem to be the right person for this.
  - wutwutwat 6mo ago
    Sorry, you're going to have to take the combative attitude and need to argue with people and direct it somewhere else. I have real shit to deal with in my life that needs my attention. Hope you find your peace.

54aJh 6mo ago

The Onion is satire, so ... But Alex Jones is currently busy with Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and others to bitterly criticize Trump for the Iran war. Trump retaliated by calling all of them "low IQ". Given that Carlson's media company has an investment from the ubiquitous 1789 Capital (Thiel and Trump Jr.), we don't know if this is theater to keep the isolationist MAGA in the fold. It could also be that they sacrifice Trump in order to accelerate Thiel's and Vance's technocracy. Anyway, these influencers are still useful for their masters.

towledev 6mo ago
[flagged]
- nathanmills 6mo ago
  [flagged]
afavour 6mo ago
They’re just reading polls and reacting accordingly. There’s no principle involved.
- lesuorac 6mo ago
  Literally no principal involved. Tucker will take any position for money see his entire career! Plus the guy was advocating the administration should attack Iran for attempting to assassinate trump.
  - ourmandave 6mo ago
    I dunno, he's pretty consistent as a white nationalist. Having to take unscheduled vacations from Fox News over some of his more racist comments.
    - lesuorac 6mo ago
      > I dunno, he's pretty consistent as a white nationalist. > ... Fox News ... Sure but can you link some white nationalist clips when he was the host of Crossfire [1] for 5 years? Like he's just not principled. If he were to re-join Fox News and Fox were to pivot to being a competitor to BET [2] his comments would change immediately. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_(American_TV_program) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossfire_(American_TV_program... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BET

helsinkiandrew 6mo ago

Brilliant plans for the future: https://theonion.info/?p=1 https://theonion.info/?p=1 > Such is the InfoWars I envision: An infinite virtual surface teeming with ads. Not just ads, but scams! Not just scams, but lies with no object, free radical misinformation, sentences and images so poorly thought out that they are unhealthy even to view for just a few seconds. The InfoWars of old was only the prototype for the hell I know we can build together: A digital platform where, every day, visitors sacrifice themselves at altars of delusion and misery, their minds fully disintegrating on contact.

api 6mo ago
Makes me think of the old Monty Python joke so funny it kills everyone skit. Which makes me think of a thread years ago I saw on the modern equivalent: a meme so offensive (to literally everyone at once) nobody can see it without having an anger induced aneurism. The skit would be a comical updated take on the Python skit. A hardened memelord shitposter troll is found dead in his basement, surrounded by rotted pizza boxes, empty energy drink cans, and penis enlargement pills. He had been working for years to create a meme that would simultaneously offend everyone. Something is on his screen. The person who finds it immediately flies into a rage so extreme they have an immediate brain aneurism and die. "We showed the meme to the most hardened Nazi edgelord trolls we could find on the worst Discords, Chans, and Telegram channels. Most did not survive. Some were saved by medical intervention but sustained severe brain damage..."
- rescripting 6mo ago
  See also, the children’s book Fluffy McWhiskers Cuteness Explosion.
- cwillu 6mo ago
  See also: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
- The_Blade 6mo ago
  it makes me think of The Entertainment from Infinite Jest, where the new Infowars just kills everyone who observes it by rendering them unable to do anything else, even make an agent for it