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And that’s basically it!
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.
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.
Its free real estate
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.
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.
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."
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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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.
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.
I subscribed (actual money) to the Onion when the original deal went down. Glad I continue to do so, they do good work.
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.
I guess that means we're done?
And it's got layers... like an onion.
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.
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.
Give dan the desk
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?
I pray to Jah that this really happens.
That’s Mr. Rule to you!
Hoping they'll do a series on all the times alex jones said god talks to him and tells him what time it is.
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!
$1800/mo. I could cry.
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.