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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago

Can't wait for the reports from the special correspondent Alex Jones (the character)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

Forget that, just lease the desk to a company that makes gay and trans porn and have people fuck on it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

There was nothing else in the news today but this. Every person on the planet knows at this point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Except the person who just asked what it was about, I imagine that's why they asked .

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

Not when they exclusively get their news from fox, tucker, and Alex Jones. Most probably have no clue. One downside to isolationist media.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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?"

[–] [email protected] -2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

"It's the desk from InfoWars, which The Onion just bought."

Better? Sorry I assumed y'all could put two and two together (it's four, btw).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

I guess "the desk" is something that people who watch infowars know about? "The desk from infowars" doesn't give the rest of us any context.

Why didn't they ask about the carpet, or the refrigerator? What's so special about the desk?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Okay, I did a bit of googling and I think they refer to this desk:

Which... I guess... is iconic if you watch InfoWars?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

This whole conversation makes this post make a lot more sense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Hope Dan has room in his home studio!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Wat? It's full of gay furries and IT professionals haha

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

But you repeat yourself

[–] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago

nope, their name is tim onion.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

and go where exactly? It's not as if fedi is any less fascist, racist etc. Quite the opposite in fact.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

If you’re running into fascists and racists, then maybe you’re hanging out in the wrong parts of the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago

What I'm saying is that it's no less a white supremacist network than anywhere else and I'm on an instance that has a zero tolerance policy for it. Yet people still show who they are even on 'good' instances that they don't (yet) block all too often, even and especially admins.