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MrJameGumb@lemmy.world to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 6 months ago

The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction

www.nbcnews.com

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The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction

www.nbcnews.com

MrJameGumb@lemmy.world to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 6 months ago
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The satirical newspaper plans to shutter Jones’ InfoWars and rebuild the website featuring well-known internet humor writers and content creators, according to a person with knowledge of the sale.
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    I’m not sure if this goes in “The Onion” or “Not The Onion”.

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      why not both

      I feel like this is the one exception where this news belongs everywhere.

    • KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca
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      I posted in another thread already, but I found it amusing seeing the same news in both. 🤣

  • Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world
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    This is fucking hilarious. That Sandy Hook denier can get absolutely fucked.

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    Huh, never thought I’d be an Infowars listener, but then I also never thought Trump would be a two-term president. So I guess this is just a strange timeline.

    • troybot [he/him]@midwest.social
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      I was thinking we were in the Darkest Timeline, but was confused because nobody is wearing evil eye patches or goatees

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        It turns out eye patches and goatees are signs of good people.

      • TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1000005857

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    I can’t tell. Is this real???

    • socphoenix@midwest.social
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      NBC news and cnn have also picked this up so appears to be real yes.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
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      Best onion article yet.

      And yes it seems true too!

  • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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    Why would a reputable news source like The Onion want to tarnish its good reputation by buying a website famous for being full of lies that people believe?

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      It funni

    • KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca
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      • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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        Although I couldn’t picture it at the time that is exactly the kind of response I wanted to illicit. Thanks. Hope you enjoyed.

        • KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca
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          Well played! It took me a bit to both find this gif and learn how to post animated gifs to Lemmy. 🤣

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    Can’t wait to see what they do with it.

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    https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/

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    Fuuuuuck I hope they hire Jones to parody himself. The irony might actually kill him.

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      Fuck no, dude doesn’t deserve a cent.

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        Ok better idea, claim that his name is an integral part of the business identity and sue him for his own name, then make AJ a character, like Bozo the clown.

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    Fucking incredible. As good as everything else has been bad.

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    I wanna know which powerful people jones pissed off because there’s no way he’d get got this hard if it wasn’t someone with a lot of pull

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      You don’t mess around with Global Tetrahedron.

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