Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’ By Bryce P. Tetraeder, Global Tetrahedron CEO ☞ https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/
And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, interchangeable assets for their patriarch to absorb and discard according to the opaque whims of the market. And just like family members, our brands regard one another with mutual suspicion and malice.
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This is so weird, I just read a comment on Lemmy where someone said they should do exactly this.
It was a good idea. Makes sense multiple people thought of it, including the onion
Wait, what? Which parts of this are satire now? I read the Onion piece that Global Tetrahedron was purchasing InfoWars, but this is a Guardian story saying The Onion is purchasing it? I’m a bit confused.
It’s not satire, they are purchasing it for real.
It’s on APNews too - it’s real
Best news I’ve seen in weeks
I mean, it’s already half way there, all they got to do is make it funny
Great idea. Who didn’t like the Colbert Report? Could turn out like a right-wing populist Repor!
Wait, is it real?
Its also exactly the kind of thing you’d expect to read about in the onion.
This is beyond mear irony.
The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’
They’re halfway there already.
I thought that was a joke. But regular news sites are running the story. So maybe it’s real?
It’s real. Their new owner is very rich and doesn’t give a fuck
I saw a TikTok of Alex crying about it. It is real.
That’s really amazing. Their joke article was hilarious even as a joke. But the fact that they really bought it is beautiful.
This is the best thing that’s ever happened
Lol I am so happy about this.
This is what I call a master class on starting a soft revolution: you take over a symbol of the opposite ideology, in the most outrageous and ridiculous way, make it known to all, and completely subvert it and deconstruct it, piece by piece, until it stops making any sense to its former self.
Like the right keeps doing with memes!
and words too. Even words get to mean exactly their antonyms :/
And CNN
like this?
Memes come and go too fast for that.
And yet a meme from a decade ago is about to become a government office
Which one?
Doge. Much old. Very beaten into ground
For me, the cherry on top is how the “InfoWars” name is still completely apt, for completely different reasons.
Where is Alex Jones on now?
Hasn’t Trump appointed him head of media relations, or something equally as stupid?
If Alex Jones becomes press secretary, I’ll be convinced that this is all a simulation.
I would love that. The only person on earth less coherent than Trump. Imagine the memes we would get out of that.
I gotta find out what the Knowledge Fight folks have to say about this.
I am waiting for the next episode to drop. Biggest episode ever.
Is Dan the loud one? I’ve never learned their names, but I’m waiting for him to scream something about them horning in on their territory.
Dan is the guy that knows stuff. Jordan is the loud sidekick comic relief.
Reformatting InfoWars as a serious, unironic branch of the Onion that deals with misinformation would just be great.
That would be hilarious. I’d love for it to wind up just doing serious journalism
Every so often, I see a car with an InfoWars bumper sticker.
I wonder what those people will do?
No idea. Maybe they’ll keep it like the Gadsden Flag holdout libertarians? “We were here first” and all that.
Honestly, I was thinking about the people out there with tattoos. There has to be at least one.
I hope they keep Alex Jones’s communism financing operation going.
Saw the news on their YouTube. Looked it up thinking it was satire and sure as shit it’s not. Probably the fastest I’ve ever purchased merch ever. Gonna love wearing my onion shirt, always loved them but this was the point I needed to send them some money because this is hilarious.
They need new merch with the infowars logo almost the same but with an onion dotting the i
They just brought back print and it’s been very satisfying for me so far.
I’m glad you mentioned this, I just signed up for a year of print
