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[–] 193 points 6 months ago

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.

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  • [–] 170 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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.)

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  • [–] 84 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Alex Jones has not commented on the Onion’s new plan to take over Infowars.

    Heh

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 79 points 6 months ago (17 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    It's about The Onion, not in The Onion.

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Thank you, saved me the trouble of looking it up! There's a word I'll probably never find occasion to use.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 66 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 47 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 42 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I subscribed (actual money) to the Onion when the original deal went down. Glad I continue to do so, they do good work.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It is fitting for the world's leading satirical news outlet to take control over info wars in their global war on info.

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  • [–] 29 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Does this fit for NotTheOnion? It specifically is The Onion. Not complaining or anything, just had the thought.

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  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    God its onionception. Its both not an onion headline but yet is also an onion headline at the same time.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago

    Give dan the desk

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    How long do you think it'll take the people who visit the site to realize it's satire now? If ever?

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Only if the onion starts turning the frogs gay

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    What if they start giving the gay frogs conversion therapy

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Depends. Which bathroom are they using, and is there an Inspector Genital on staff?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    ive never watched a frog go to the bathroom. ive watched a bear go to the bathroom. only cost 6 bucks

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  • [–] 58 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    Hoping they'll do a series on all the times alex jones said god talks to him and tells him what time it is.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    The New York times article actually says $81,000:

    On Monday, Mr. Milligan asked Maya Guerra Gamble, a judge in Texas’ Travis County District Court overseeing the disposition of Infowars, to approve that licensing agreement in a court filing. Under the terms, The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, would pay $81,000 a month to license Infowars.com and its associated intellectual property — such as its name — for an initial six months, with an option to renew for another six months.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (4 children)

    Who do they pay the licensing fee to?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Good question. From what I gather from infowar's wikipedia article I guess it will be paid to infowar's parent company which owns the IP. Before The Onion showed interest in acquiring infowars, the company was supposed to be liquidated with most of the proceeds going to the Sandy Hook families.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    So why is the Onion licensing it from them when they could have bought it during the liquidation?

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (17 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (16 children)

    do you seriously not use an adblocker?

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (14 children)

    Tradeoff of using a phone with a Lemmy app.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (13 children)

    You might be able to go into the settings and set it to use your default browser instead of using their own.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (12 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    It's in voyager for Android. I don't think I could survive life without my default browser.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (6 children)

    Can you tell me where that setting is in voyager, because I've just been through the settings and I don't see it.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Sure. It's under general->other

    Screenshot:

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    Uh.. that's not what I see ? I have two options missing:

    Voyager 2.45.1

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Well that's weird. I may have turned on advanced settings somewhere. I'll have a look.

    Edit: what version are you on?

    I'm on 2.45.1 but I've had that functionality a long time.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I figured it out. I had the webapp (pwa) version installed from the voyager website, which runs within your browser but otherwise looks identical

    I've now installed the voyager Android app from the play store and the missing options now show up

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Replying separately so you get the notification. Went through all the settings and I don't see any reason for yours to be different.

    The only thing I can think of is that I installed mine from f-droid instead of the play store.

    Other than that I'm stumped.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I pray to Jah that this really happens.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Love it. 🤞

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I wonder if Alex jones was once legit and then got psyoped by the government to become crazy.

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