If I was The Onion, I would not have announced this. I would have slowly started slipping normal sane reporting into the site until it was fully converted. I’m guessing those visitors probably haven’t seen truthful news in awhile.
theonion.info has all you need to know.
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.
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If the licensing agreement receives court approval, The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site satirizing its conspiratorial origins, and comedian Tim Heidecker has been hired as creative director.
This brings me so much joy.
I think Tim is going to do a Great Job.
Awesome site.
“This is me alex jones sneaking into the epstein residence dressed as a little girl to watch all my future friends commit crimes.”
Watch the Trial of Tim Heidecker and then clips from Alex’s trial and it’s spot on. If the Trial of Tim Heidecker hadn’t came out first, you would have sworn it was a parody of Alex.
If the Trial of Tim Heidecker hadn’t came out first, you would have sworn it was a parody of Alex.
To be honest, I still can’t tell the difference.
Probably because those two links are exactly the same. (Happens to the best of us.)
Fixed. Darn phone crashes when I change tabs.
Its free real estate
The Onion will also sell Infowars merchandise and share the proceeds with the Sandy Hook families.
I’m grateful to The Onion for many reasons throughout the recent decades. And it seems I have a new reason to add to the list.
The fact this deal was ever able to be blocked in the first place is indisputable proof that the law has always been on the side of the fascists.
What?
The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, won a 2024 bankruptcy auction to buy Infowars, but a judge voided those results, saying their was a lack of transparency in the deal.
If the licensing agreement receives court approval, The Onion plans to turn Infowars into a comedy site satirizing its conspiratorial origins, and comedian Tim Heidecker has been hired as creative director.
“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,” said Heidecker, one of the creative forces behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim.
This is quite a paradox. It’s a true story, not satire, meaning that it does belong on /c/nottheonion; and I would indeed look at the headline and think “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.” But it’s definitely about the satire newspaper and website The Onion, which is explicitly what this community is not about. It says so in the name!
We don’t have a community called “quantum superposition of onion”, so this will have to do
Seems like we both do and don’t, which is the best possible outcome I think.
It’s about The Onion, not in The Onion.
Still alliacious.
Ah, new word unlocked.
Alliaceous is an adjective meaning to resemble, smell, or taste like garlic or onions. It often describes plants belonging to the Allium genus, such as leeks, chives, and shallots, which are characterized by their pungent, pungent, and savory scent.
They’re pungent and pungent!
Thank you, saved me the trouble of looking it up! There’s a word I’ll probably never find occasion to use.
But I would really love to.
Next time someone doesn’t put enough onion in a dish you can ask for it to be “more alliacious.”
Sorry, yeah. I’m using it to mean “of or relating to onions.”
No shit. I thought you meant in relation to garlic. Thank you for clarifying.
It’s technically about Global Tetrahedron acquiring InfoWars along side of its other property The Onion.
So we’re safely in nottheonion territory but don’t try to post this in notglobaltetrahedron.
I have decided by fiat that it is, in fact, une pipe.
If it’s a pipe, then let’s see you try to smoke something out of it
Well you can also pronounce the name of the community as “not the onion” as in “oh no its the onion!”
Run for your lives!
Alex Jones has not commented on the Onion’s new plan to take over Infowars.
Heh
He probably has on his own show by now. He does it all the time. Sometimes obliquely, blaming the Deep State for his misery and such.
Knowledge Fight did an episode about Tucker Carlson last week because Jones hasn’t been on the air. Dude’s probably too busy drinking his local Costco out of Kirkland brand vodka to comment on this.
Him finally bending over crying because of this? I guess we could drink to that 🥂 But it’s more likely he’ll pop up again and do his usual grift, with slightly less gusto.
BTW, I think Fucker Carlson deserves KF’s scrutiny. He’s calmer, but somehow that makes him even worse. I saw people (almost) defending him right here in the fediverse. Maybe it was on .ml
I don’t doubt you’re right but it would be foolish of him to draw attention to the fact he was sued for one of his biggest lies. He’s an awful excuse for a human being but he’s not stupid
it would be foolish of him
That’s basically his middle name.
I guess you never listened to his show. TBF, I only do it through KnowledgeFight.
I subscribed (actual money) to the Onion when the original deal went down. Glad I continue to do so, they do good work.
Same here! And got one for a family member as well. The original news gave me my first bit of hope after the election.
Does this fit for NotTheOnion? It specifically is The Onion. Not complaining or anything, just had the thought.
God its onionception. Its both not an onion headline but yet is also an onion headline at the same time.
And it’s got layers… like an onion.
I guess that means we’re done?
I’m pretty sure this article is a paradox.
Perhaps they are coming in as a Shallot?
My apologies for the downvote. The article used their instead of there and it’s quite a terrible website in terms of ads. Not a lot of substance to the article I regret my click.
do you seriously not use an adblocker?
Tradeoff of using a phone with a Lemmy app.
You might be able to go into the settings and set it to use your default browser instead of using their own.
Nope… there’s no setting for that in Voyager. I’ve been down this path before, and someone sent a screenshot showing that option but it seems to only exist on the IOS lemmy build, not Android
Edit: I meant voyager, not lemmy
Edit2: the option is missing from the PWA version of voyager - install the play store Android app instead.
It’s in voyager for Android. I don’t think I could survive life without my default browser.
Can you tell me where that setting is in voyager, because I’ve just been through the settings and I don’t see it.
Sure. It’s under general->other
Screenshot:
Jerboa on Android definitely has that option, also DNS based adblockers would work for any in-app browser
Which app are you using? I got Connect to link to Vivaldi.
Sorry I meant voyager, not lemmy in general
It’s okay. Thanks for clarifying!
Adblockers don’t fix bad grammar or add substance to articles.
Hoping they’ll do a series on all the times alex jones said god talks to him and tells him what time it is.
It is fitting for the world’s leading satirical news outlet to take control over info wars in their global war on info.
Actually, if the onion ran info wars, it would tell people the site is satire. Which would be the first piece of correct information on the platform.
How long do you think it’ll take the people who visit the site to realize it’s satire now? If ever?
Only if the onion starts turning the frogs gay
What if they start giving the gay frogs conversion therapy
Depends. Which bathroom are they using, and is there an Inspector Genital on staff?
ive never watched a frog go to the bathroom. ive watched a bear go to the bathroom. only cost 6 bucks
6 bucks for a bathroom is rip off! The bear must’ve been hunting for a week just for one visit
it was a polar bear in the portland zoo and he just plopped a steamer right in front of the entire crowd. he was a very proud bear.
Give dan the desk
license the Infowars website and its associated intellectual property from Gregory Milligan, who was appointed by a bankruptcy court to manage the website, for $1,800 a month
So the money goes to the victims, right?
and Jones could appeal any ruling
nooooooooo!
The deal was made with the victims consent. I think more than the money, the goal is to get him to leave them alone, which requires de platforming because he just won’t fucking stop. He continues to defame the victims on air pretty routinely.
He continues to defame the victims on air pretty routinely.
I listen to the KnowledgeFight podcast for well over a year and never heard them comment on that.
He’s doing the same shit to others, yes, but I think he’s too scared to continue down that specific path. Also, and with all due respect to the victims, the Sandy Hook murders won’t help to sell his grift anymore.
He’s talking shit about the procedings though.
Somebody called him “not stupid”. I don’t think I agree with that.
I listen to Knowledge Fight too, and I’m pretty sure there was the whole bit about him not pissing on the kids graves. Maybe you can count that more on the talking shit about court proceedings, but I’m pretty sure there have been multiple times I’ve heard since the court rulings that he’s also suggested the dad of one of the victims was intellectually disabled within the last year.
