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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

pictures for sad children.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Realizing the headline isn't real:

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 hours ago

You're being lied to... right now!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

HOG WATER! HOG WATER! HOG WATER!

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 6 hours ago

I DRINK HOG WATER WHEN I A CRANK MY HOG WITH MY BROTHERS!

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

Green is the best flavor!

[–] VoodooAardvark@lemmy.zip 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I thought infowars.com was being taken over - is it not?

[–] lavander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They are fighting as much as possible to prevent the onion takeover

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

He's still trying, but that's just typical Alex Jones bullshit. It's over, The Onion owns it, and Fatso doesn't stand a chance of getting it back.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago
[–] wolfrasin@lemmy.today 11 points 23 hours ago

The parody is just so on point. Could have gone with an even more clowny version of Alex J*nes, but extending the stuttering bluster to be the entire runtime of the show would be gauche.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

He's been dead for 15 years, replaced by one of those Men In Black bodies with a bug in the head.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

i'm pretty sure that's not where the bug is

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 points 42 minutes ago (1 children)

My mistake, I couldn't tell

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago

No worries. Standard model is head, but his pilot seat is allllll the way up his ass

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

I'm being lied to... RIGHT now.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I lost hope before that The Onion have lost the legal battle to acquire InfoWars. But alas, there is indeed a god!

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 points 21 hours ago

You got to hear Ben Collins' interview with Terry Gross yesterday. It actually gave me a tiny spark of hope in our future.

[–] cheat700000007@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

They won the lawsuit like 4 months ago

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 113 points 1 day ago (9 children)

When I was out and about today, I listened to the head of The Onion being interviewed on NPR. He talked a lot about the ways Alex Jones has tried to get out of paying the families of the Sandy Hook kids that were killed like he's required to. They tried to devalue Info Wars, and then have a shell company buy it at auction for a tiny amount so that there would be no money to pay the families. Apparently that was the original motivation for The Onion bidding on it and bidding it up: to make sure there was money for the families, and also they thought they could do something with it.

That whole thing is still in litigation, with Jones saying the company really has no value. So The Onion is releasing new content of the kind they intend to do on the site, in hopes that people will stream it and show the judge that there's an audience and a value. I decided to watch the first episode even if it's terrible, to give them the views.

It's not terrible, it's hilarious. Well worth watching. Note that some of the commercials are theirs, and you might not want to skip those.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Alex Jones is truly a malevolent POS (person of shit) and so are his fans. I wish nothing but the worst for them.

I caught the live stream about halfway through. I skipped back to the beginning and I really enjoyed it. I plan on watching it every week, hopefully live, to help boost their numbers.

The ad for Oxygyn was truly hilarious and I like that they're still running with "Turn Your Piss into Gold."

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jim Mother-Fucking Haggerty!

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