This Elf must be stopped.
Realizing the headline isn’t real:
You’re being lied to… right now!
Give it time.
When I was out and about today, I listened to the head of The Onion being interviewed on NPR. He talked a lot about the ways Alex Jones has tried to get out of paying the families of the Sandy Hook kids that were killed like he’s required to. They tried to devalue Info Wars, and then have a shell company buy it at auction for a tiny amount so that there would be no money to pay the families. Apparently that was the original motivation for The Onion bidding on it and bidding it up: to make sure there was money for the families, and also they thought they could do something with it.
That whole thing is still in litigation, with Jones saying the company really has no value. So The Onion is releasing new content of the kind they intend to do on the site, in hopes that people will stream it and show the judge that there’s an audience and a value. I decided to watch the first episode even if it’s terrible, to give them the views.
It’s not terrible, it’s hilarious. Well worth watching. Note that some of the commercials are theirs, and you might not want to skip those.
Wow, he could have apologised and settled out of court at any time, and instead we get a worm crawling down every hole.
The conservative and libertarian mind can only ever think about themselves.
Alex Jones is truly a malevolent POS (person of shit) and so are his fans. I wish nothing but the worst for them.
I caught the live stream about halfway through. I skipped back to the beginning and I really enjoyed it. I plan on watching it every week, hopefully live, to help boost their numbers.
The ad for Oxygyn was truly hilarious and I like that they’re still running with “Turn Your Piss into Gold.”
Yeah, completely agree on both things.
The hog water commercial was pretty good.
some of the commercials are theirs
None of them are real commercials, sadly, not even Turn Your Gold Into Piss
No, it’s real. And, there’s a glitch where you get more piss for the gold than gold for the piss. Infinite piss. What more could you want?
That’s so embarrassing that they got the ratios wrong so I can get infinite piss by just continually buying both products. They’re gonna panic when they wonder why I’ve bought out their whole stock, but by then it will be too late. 🧠🧠🧠
Yep, that was the segment - I didn’t think to link it, thanks
I did not know any of this. Thank you.
I’m being lied to… RIGHT now.
HOG WATER! HOG WATER! HOG WATER!
I DRINK HOG WATER WHEN I A CRANK MY HOG WITH MY BROTHERS!
Green is the best flavor!
I wasn’t sure what to expect. But this was pretty good for what it is. Fuck Alex Jone and InfoWars.
pictures for sad children.
I lost hope before that The Onion have lost the legal battle to acquire InfoWars. But alas, there is indeed a god!
They won the lawsuit like 4 months ago
You gotta hear Ben Collins’ interview with
Terry Grossanother interviewer yesterday. It actually gave me a tiny spark of hope in our future.
The parody is just so on point. Could have gone with an even more clowny version of Alex J*nes, but extending the stuttering bluster to be the entire runtime of the show would be gauche.
I thought infowars.com was being taken over - is it not?
They are fighting as much as possible to prevent the onion takeover
He’s still trying, but that’s just typical Alex Jones bullshit. It’s over, The Onion owns it, and Fatso doesn’t stand a chance of getting it back.
leased*
He’s been dead for 15 years, replaced by one of those Men In Black bodies with a bug in the head.
i’m pretty sure that’s not where the bug is
My mistake, I couldn’t tell
No worries. Standard model is head, but his pilot seat is allllll the way up his ass
Tim’s going to completely shred his voice doing this character
From the picture I couldn’t even tell it was him.
Omg I have been waiting to see what they do with this IP. I gotta make sure I come back.
It looks like they’ll be doing a live stream every Thursday evening.
Tonight’s was great. I learned a lot. Like JFK didn’t kill himself. I never ever considered that he might have been assassinated.
“We really have no idea how medium-up this goes.”
It’s definitely off to a good start.
So far I’ve learned Alex Jones is unable to grow hair on the top of his head
I was so sure he hung himself.
We are so lucky to have such honest and reliable news sources!Is it possible he hanged himself from a light pole?
Come on man, you really buy this conspiracy shit? Everyone knows his head just kinda did that on its own.
It’s a brand, a name. It’s not “IP”. There is no such thing as intellectual property, it’s a manipulative term.
That being said, agree with the sentiment! This is great 😊
People arguing against IP either have never created anything, or have their “creative” endeavours backed by family wealth.
Tbh I agree with the general spirit of what they are saying but IP is obviously a valid legal construct and wishing it wasn’t doesn’t change that, and I didn’t really appreciate being "well aCkshULly"d so I hit the down arrow anyway lol
Intellectual property is as real as any other property is: it’s all made up by people, but it has the force of social/economic/governmental institutions behind it so it can affect your life.
It’s just that legal concepts tend to attract discussions by people who can’t tell the difference between a descriptive or positive argument (how things are) versus a normative argument (how things should be).
What the fuck are you even talking about? “Intellectual property” is a term pushed by corporations and their lawyers to lump together very different legal regimes like copyright, trademark, regional indications or patents, under one supposedly common name. Doing this really has the main advantage of making it possible to use the language of theft when talking about things that can be infinitely copied, and therefore can’t be stolen. “Stolen IP” makes about as much sense as “unauthorised colour”.
Well, next time you create something useful, I hope you share it with everyone for free
Are you by any chance a sovcit?
Uh, no. What would make you think this?
All this has been common knowledge in FOSS circles for ages.
Haven’t been able to watch it all yet; have to head to work. But man oh man, Jim Haggerty with the everyman Colbert Show vibes. Love it. And Tim’s Alex Jones impression is spot…on.
if you have a minute, the theme song is great
First half of the headline got me lol
Dang, I ate the onion
I only had a bite. It’s like when you ask for no onions and then you get a bite and you’re like ew wtf is this Alex Jones is dead doing in my burger?
