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[–] 193 points 5 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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  • [–] 171 points 5 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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    [–] 84 points 5 months ago (6 children)

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

    Heh

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  • [–] 78 points 5 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 5 months ago (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 22 points 5 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 5 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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    [–] 69 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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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    [–] 60 points 5 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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    [–] 50 points 5 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 5 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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    [–] 29 points 5 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 5 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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  • [–] 28 points 5 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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    [–] 26 points 5 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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    [–] 25 points 5 months ago

    Give dan the desk

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  • [–] 21 points 5 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 5 months ago (5 children)

    Only if the onion starts turning the frogs gay

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

    I pray to Jah that this really happens.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 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 5 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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    [–] 9 points 5 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 8 points 5 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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