It looks like Elon is inserting himself into this process. Does he have standing other than the oligarchs appearing to fight any dissent against their oligarchian ways?
Now that you have accepted the mantle of truth teller and court jester, it is incumbent upon you to lay to rest once and for all the Bill Hicks question. Or run with it.
Hilarious. Might I suggest opening up for suggestions on the rebranding in name and mascot? I have found there are a lot of clever people here on bluesky. Although ya'll have been clever on your own at The Onion.
This is awesome! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Might you be looking for writers? I can do ridiculous snark taking taking the piss out of MAGA-world and Hair Furor Donald. I did an entire novella of such stuff, Fired and Furries.
Worried to hear that Elon Musk has used his vast wealth to not only help Trump destroy our country & become a dictator, but now to hire lawyers to help a villain like Alex Jones regain his show to continue polluting the airwaves with lies & hatred. Nolite te bastardes carborundum :-)
YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lord how I've missed the old Gawker, which why I've always had an irrational hatred for Thiel - even before he brought us Vance 🤬
I don't think they're ready for what kind of silliness you guys are going to do with it. They're going to lose it but lack the platform to do said losing it with.
i legit hope this works out soon because i am no joke gonna at least attempt to apply with you guys. that site helped ruin lives like mine for what feels like decades at this point & i want a chance to make it better lol
Thank you for that breakdown. Didn't have to listen to @andrewtorrez.bsky.social talk. Can't wait for Dan @knowledgefight.bsky.social to finally get the payoff he's earned
I don’t even know if this will really hurt him. Once he was back on Twitter I knew he’d never go away. This way he had a new studio all ready and he gets to keep scamming the rubes while screaming about the “deep state”.
The internet is badly in need of the early Huff Po, a place to get a news digest, US and internationally; science; culture; opinion; a broadsheet. I think a new Infowars would be better as this than yet another satire site, when reality is more bizarre than any invention.
You’re not wrong, but it’s very expensive to do that. Maybe they could swing it, with other investors or whatever, and maybe they should try, but it’s not an A-B decision. It would cost exponentially more than having five people writing parodies.
Wait...don't you WANT as many infoWars devotees to believe the auction was overturned? Does that not play directly into your scheme? Grift off the dullards?
When I heard the news about your winning bid, I felt a wave of poetic justice wash over me, knowing that one of the most respected satirical sites with integrity was transforming their true antithesis into something more valuable and palpable, I was ecstatic. Keep on, dudes!
Go get them Onion, and the first issue to cover would be to pay homage to the victims and their families of the Sandy Hook Elementary 😍That would be nice.
Will you put up a billboard when it happens? This CT native remembers exactly where I was, and with whom,
when we learned the heartbreaking news! Thank you, Tim Onion, for leading with humanity when it's most needed!
The main creditors — the sandy hook parents — gave a significant discount on their debt in return for Onion being the winners, no doubt he’ll try to argue that isn’t *faaaaaaaair*.
It is about the question whether Jones person Twitter handle can be part of the bankruptcy and move to a different entity.
Obviously Musk only cares because it is right wing ahole, but it is a legit legal question that might see court time on it's own for good reason.
For corporate accounts it makes sense control can be forced to be transfered, but personal accounts used in part for business is definitely a mess legally
Except Musk recently changed X's TOS to let him purloin the @ America account for his bullshit SuperPAC, so that's probably gonna weaken any legal argument he stumps up in that regard.
Twitter can claim stuff like TOS infringement for personal account transfer, but for a corporate account it's not unusual at all with transfer of ownership and eventual TOS arguments can essentially be dismissed by court much more easily.
As of now, Musk's lawyers are only interjecting over Alex Jones's Twitter account, which they say shouldn't be sold as part of the bankruptcy settlement.
Crazy thing is you could allow them to continue posting their content and it would be indistinguishable from The Onion headlines. Just letting them continue but with the onion logo slapped on it would drive them insane.
So fantastic. We need more of this. It's great to get this info out. It was confusing to see their post. Now I understand. What a fanstastic thing for the families who he put through sheer hell for so long.
I believe that the one of the most effective ways to push back on what is coming our way is the ruthless mocking of all of them and working to set their fragile narcissistic egos aflame. They are all Putin's bitches and we need to make sure they feel that.
I’m so appreciative you’ve done this. What a sweet end to a brutal process. I hope Alex Jones has a million and one breakdowns. We don’t have to see it, but we’ll know it’s happening. He deserves every one.
I'm so glad you were able to include the Sandy Hook families in this. I've wanted them to be able to get back at Alex Jones for all his lies and vitriol for a long time and this was a masterclass at playing the long game.
Saw your interview where you and Mr Feinblatt were discussing ways to get rid of the "suppliments"
well.. 4 names came to mind..
Jamie and Adam from Mythbusters..
to test the stuff..
bust the stuff..
and then blow it up..
Or
Penn and Teller to find a way to magically destroy it.
May I please make a suggestion? Make a section of the website to educate people on LGBTQIA+ but commission some LGBTQIA+ artists to draw different banners of gay frogs to display a random banner each time you visit/refresh the page?
Turn Info Wars into an unabashedly "good news only" portal. Feel good human stories, scientific progress stories, unselfish endeavors, that kind of thing.
Not sure of the morality of continuing the fake supplements business with claims of "Secret Hidden stash, LIMITED QUANTITY" to drain the resources of the right wing rubes
but it is an idea. Tho TBH i bet it was designed as a way to launder money
Do y’all need a new InfoWars host or commentator, @bencollins.bsky.social? I’m no Alex Jones but I knew an Alex Jones in real life once. Basically the same credentials as anyone else formerly on the network.
Please tell me you're planning to set up an email server on the domain that you now own. Once you own it, of course, all of the emails people send to "[email protected]" (and other addresses like sales@ ...) will come to you. They'll be your emails, to read or publish as you like!
The fix was in. They thought Infowars was going to be bought by another Alex Jones company. Judy a switcheroo. They thought they cold play us all for fools.
Then you showed up and wrecked their little scheme.
Thank you!
I mean, it DID give us a soundclip of AJ saying "MR ONION" with as much venom as he could muster. It's probably not outweighing the annoying parts, but if I were Tim Onion I would make that the very end of my ringtone.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musks-x-corp-files-000123126.html
Now that you have accepted the mantle of truth teller and court jester, it is incumbent upon you to lay to rest once and for all the Bill Hicks question. Or run with it.
The man deserves no less.
We think it’s all worth it to make a better, funnier future possible. As always: Tu Stultus Es.
Many thanks ⭐️
#sandyhookpromise
Primum non nocere (Classical Latin: [ˈpriːmũː noːn nɔˈkeːrɛ])
"first, do no harm"
Perhaps a layer added on #realblueinfowars to catapult just causes?
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/presidential-eligibility-1
It seems the feed for infowars is back, but renamed to the ‘Alex Jones network’
Same scams and poisonous information.
How does that work??
Like how the infowars store changed to "Dr Jones Naturals" or whatever it is and is "owned by Alex's dad"
Alex is going to do his thing under other folks' names pretty much forever probably
I think it's a splendid idea.
Equally, tu stultus es.
when we learned the heartbreaking news! Thank you, Tim Onion, for leading with humanity when it's most needed!
Obviously Musk only cares because it is right wing ahole, but it is a legit legal question that might see court time on it's own for good reason.
Best of all, if you order for a friend, they come in a box with the URL in bold letters clearly readable from a distance.
Tu stultus es! Patricius et Medea facit in mensa! (lol, we were immature *giggles* )
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/elon-musk-x-corp-alex-jones-infowars-rcna180487
Thanks for giving me something new to look up!
well.. 4 names came to mind..
Jamie and Adam from Mythbusters..
to test the stuff..
bust the stuff..
and then blow it up..
Or
Penn and Teller to find a way to magically destroy it.
Turn Info Wars into an unabashedly "good news only" portal. Feel good human stories, scientific progress stories, unselfish endeavors, that kind of thing.
but it is an idea. Tho TBH i bet it was designed as a way to launder money
Dancing the devil to death is always a good time 😉
Then you showed up and wrecked their little scheme.
Thank you!