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JoYo 🇺🇸 @lemmy.ml

3mo ago

InfoWars

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Help?
- The Onion bought InfoWars
  
  https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/
  https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/onion-wins-alex-jones-infowars-bankruptcy-auction-rcna179936
  OMG, that is awesome! They have a limited amount of time to capitalize on that before all the Infowars drones catch on.
  
  I'm not sure if OP means this, but given that the acquisition headline has been posted 500 times today, I assume they meant "what's the deal with the desk?"
- the onion bought infowars, the brand, the domain, it's intellectual property like the character "Alex Jones" all of it belongs to Infowars. Apparently the desk as well
  
  Can't wait for the reports from the special correspondent Alex Jones (the character)

Get out the UV light and make sure to wear gloves around it.

c/NotTheOnionButAlsoYesTheOnion
Who owns The Onion? What to know after satire publication buys Alex Jones' Infowars
The current owner and chairman of The Onion is Jeff Lawson, with Ben Collins listed as chief executive officer, according to the publication's website.
However, The Onion's parent company is Global Tetrahedron, where Bryce P. Tetraeder is CEO.
Collins should GTFO of Bluesky, because it is a Nazi bar, about as much as 𝕏itter is.
- nope, their name is tim onion.
- Wat? It's full of gay furries and IT professionals haha
  
  But you repeat yourself
  
  And Xitter is full of porn and neoliberal, Democratic party-aligned pundits, but doesn’t negate the fact that it’s a Nazi bar.
- and go where exactly? It's not as if fedi is any less fascist, racist etc. Quite the opposite in fact.
  
  If you’re running into fascists and racists, then maybe you’re hanging out in the wrong parts of the fediverse.

Hope Dan has room in his home studio!

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