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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Get out the UV light and make sure to wear gloves around it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

c/NotTheOnionButAlsoYesTheOnion

Who owns The Onion? What to know after satire publication buys Alex Jones' Infowars

The current owner and chairman of The Onion is Jeff Lawson, with Ben Collins listed as chief executive officer, according to the publication's website.

However, The Onion's parent company is Global Tetrahedron, where Bryce P. Tetraeder is CEO.

Collins should GTFO of Bluesky, because it is a Nazi bar, about as much as 𝕏itter is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wat? It's full of gay furries and IT professionals haha

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And Xitter is full of porn and neoliberal, Democratic party-aligned pundits, but doesn’t negate the fact that it’s a Nazi bar.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Not any more. Didn't they ban porn? Haha

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

But you repeat yourself

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

and go where exactly? It's not as if fedi is any less fascist, racist etc. Quite the opposite in fact.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you’re running into fascists and racists, then maybe you’re hanging out in the wrong parts of the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

What I'm saying is that it's no less a white supremacist network than anywhere else and I'm on an instance that has a zero tolerance policy for it. Yet people still show who they are even on 'good' instances that they don't (yet) block all too often, even and especially admins.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

nope, their name is tim onion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

the onion bought infowars, the brand, the domain, it's intellectual property like the character "Alex Jones" all of it belongs to Infowars. Apparently the desk as well

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Can't wait for the reports from the special correspondent Alex Jones (the character)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if OP means this, but given that the acquisition headline has been posted 500 times today, I assume they meant "what's the deal with the desk?"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"It's the desk from InfoWars, which The Onion just bought."

Better? Sorry I assumed y'all could put two and two together (it's four, btw).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I guess "the desk" is something that people who watch infowars know about? "The desk from infowars" doesn't give the rest of us any context.

Why didn't they ask about the carpet, or the refrigerator? What's so special about the desk?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you knew what InfoWars was at all, it would be pretty obvious, you don't need to have watched much (which I didn't, just saw the meme clips). InfoWars was one dude sitting at a desk screaming about conspiracy theories and selling snake oil for hours and hours, that's all it was. The desk was the only other thing on screen besides Alex Jones afaik. There was nothing special about it, but there was also no other part of the office "featured" on the show. Plus it says "InfoWars" in giant letters on it, so that should make for a fun prop for The Onion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Everything I know about InfoWars I read. Every picture I've seen of Alex Jones is him outside or a closeup of his face.

But I did see the picture of the desk that somebody else posted and I understand now why having it would be a big deal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Okay, I did a bit of googling and I think they refer to this desk:

Which... I guess... is iconic if you watch InfoWars?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

This whole conversation makes this post make a lot more sense.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Forget that, just lease the desk to a company that makes gay and trans porn and have people fuck on it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

that's not what jones used it for?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

No. Im suggesting penis on the desk, not an enormous cunt.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There was nothing else in the news today but this. Every person on the planet knows at this point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Except the person who just asked what it was about, I imagine that's why they asked .

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Not when they exclusively get their news from fox, tucker, and Alex Jones. Most probably have no clue. One downside to isolationist media.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Hope Dan has room in his home studio!