This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Oh my god what a power move. More power to them, seriously. Best outcome we could have gotten
They should harness the crazy for good. Make conspiracy theory-sounding stories, but make them factual and get people to take positive action.
"They created chemicals you can inject into the bloodstream that keeps them from getting the Measels."
"The overlords in their golden towers want to tell you who you are and aren't allowed to love."
meaning even more so
This is fucking hilarious, best news I've heard in forever.
They should run it like it was. Then in about a year, just subtly start changing the context. Then before you know it, they are going to start supporting progressive topics.
THEY TURNED THE FREAKIN FROG GAY!!!!!!!
ITS NOT FUNNY!!!
Wait, is it real?
Stupid it was all along
They should send Alex Jones a $1 "royalty" check every month - just so that he doesn't forget it.
This just made my day
This is the best thing that's ever happened
This is so weird, I just read a comment on Lemmy where someone said they should do exactly this.
Well they only need to do the first part of that.
For me, the cherry on top is how the "InfoWars" name is still completely apt, for completely different reasons.
Reformatting InfoWars as a serious, unironic branch of the Onion that deals with misinformation would just be great.
Where is Alex Jones on now?
Hasn't Trump appointed him head of media relations, or something equally as stupid?
If Alex Jones becomes press secretary, I'll be convinced that this is all a simulation.
im sorry but the owner's name is tim onion. please publish a correction.
The funniest piece is going to be seeing old followers believe it’s still the InfoWars they know and love. It took forever for people to stop eating the onion in large numbers, and it still manages to happen on occasion.
There is opportunity here. Initially, anyway.
A part of me actually wished that the Onion would have purchased InfoWars, but in secret, like maybe under a subsidiary corp that has a right-wing sounding name.
They don't change Infowars' branding or anything but the articles become subtly liberal.
Maybe an overt purchase is better but I really want to troll the right.
Looks like it's been down since January. Do you think people are still trying it?
I think there's always going to be that group of people. Another example: folks that didn't notice that The Colbert Report was satire.
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.
Like the right keeps doing with memes!
