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A million dollars a year for... what? A gag that fans of infowars won't watch, and there aren't enough anti-fans to appreciate? It feels personal at this point.

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Tim heidecker summarised their thinking wonderfully.

"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”.

why don’t they do this with the rest of the internet? there’s plenty of properties worse than infowars. like say 4chan.

> It feels personal at this point.

Of course it's personal. Alex Jones is an arsehole manufacturing outrage for profit. Being made fun of is the least of his problems

Not to mention Alex Jones is still up and running elsewhere spreading his nonsense and hawking his merch. So it's a cute gag, I guess, and gets the Sandy Hook families some money, but doesn't really change the status quo.

I disagree. It's a lot better than if it were bought by simply a different far-right media outlet.

This keeps it out of that ecosystem, which I think is a really good thing.

It's just a domain name. The Onion taking it over does virtually nothing to impact Alex Jone's reach.

Then the point was to send a message, which brings it back to being biased. I’m not a fan of Alex Jones but I am a fan of people making their own decisions about what content they consume. This sets a dangerous precedent that fundamentally stifles free speech. I wonder how long it will take Republicans to pull this on Democrats, which means this tit-for-tat back and forth will never end.

Because it's funny that The Onion will be taking over InfoWars.

And I'm _still_ laughing. LOL

Think of it as a million dollar ad buy.

Or a charitable gift to Sandy Hook families

> It feels personal at this point.

It is openly and proudly personal. It is also political, also openly.

> It feels personal at this point.

Yeah, it seems hard to believe that anyone would take Alex Jones' behaviour so personally. He only suggested that the murder of 20 young children and 6 adults in a school shooting was faked for political reasons.

(Are you serious?!)

It's funny

It is personal. He intentionally lied about the parents of dead children. Thats as personal of an attack as it gets. Of course those parents are going to take it personally and go after the sick pile of shit who lied about them.

> It feels personal at this point.

Fucking hell that's a funny line.

Oh, that so sad, can someone please think of the fascist grifters?

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