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The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ (www.theguardian.com)

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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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[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 49 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago

Like the right keeps doing with memes!

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago

like this?

Screenshot_20241114-132951_Firefox

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

and words too. Even words get to mean exactly their antonyms :/

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

And CNN

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz -3 points 5 days ago

Memes come and go too fast for that.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

And yet a meme from a decade ago is about to become a government office

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

Which one?

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Doge. Much old. Very beaten into ground

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

Oh. That one.

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