 I had to read this 3x to realize it wasn’t satire. #WompWomp The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction The satirical newspaper plans to shutter Jones’ InfoWars and rebuild the website featuring well-known internet humor writers and content creators, according to a person with knowledge of the sale. 94 comments
 @GottaLaff OK, you totally got me. I 1000% thought that was an onion headline. This is glorious.  @octothorpe The Onion's version of the story is pretty fun too: https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/ @xinit @octothorpe @GottaLaff every day is a good to laugh at Alex Jones, today it is especially sweet. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 @xinit @octothorpe @GottaLaff “And just like family members, our brands regard one another with mutual suspicion and malice.”  @BonehouseWasps @GottaLaff @GottaLaff @GottaLaff @Wileymiller @GottaLaff not for nothing, it looks like they want to publish satirists...I bet they will want the greatest form of satire there too: cartoons. @Wileymiller @GottaLaff  @darthstar @Wileymiller @GottaLaff I’d be two minds on that: you could just trap them in a silo of nonsense, all over harmless topics. Like how many eyes are on Mr Potato Head’s head.  @darthstar @Wileymiller @GottaLaff @Piousunyn @Wileymiller @GottaLaff They're largely just non-thinkers who have been trained to embrace their worst aspects over time. They can be deprogrammed the same way - and humor is a great vehicle for that. Deporting the people who grow my food sounds silly! @darthstar @Wileymiller @GottaLaff 5 MSN sources with 24/7 Trump ass kissing will be hard to deprogram? Hope I am wrong. @Piousunyn @Wileymiller @GottaLaff @darthstar @Wileymiller @GottaLaff To be clear, I do not watch or follow any MSN elite owned media. Get all my news from Laffy, here on Mastodon./s @darthstar @Wileymiller @GottaLaff Picking a Fox News Ahole, a Major in the National Guard, to head the Department of Defense to fire the generals Trump does not like, seems less then prudent.  @darthstar Probably wouldn't work. But, as long as they get the site's mailing list they can just keep selling them boner pills and use the money to finance the satire.  @Wileymiller "Not The Onion. ...I mean, yes, it IS The Onion, but it's not a joke. Wait, I mean, yes, it's a joke, and a really good one! But it's real." @GottaLaff  @GottaLaff The interesting question is: will Infowars current readers really notice that the website is now a branch of the Onion? 🤔 Intern: "I know! What if we did a story about fluoride in the water making frogs gay? Ha hahaha! Crazy, right?" Rest of staff: *sigh* @EdCates @GottaLaff @StephaneHuart running my college paper I had a writer who aspired to go to journalism school. Their serious articles sounded like satire, and their attempts to write for our satire section sounded like incredibly boring serious articles. I never followed up to see how their career unfolded but your gag just reminded me of that experience. @StephaneHuart @GottaLaff Wait, this is real? There is an article in the WaPo indicating it's real, and while I've been quite unhappy with the WaPo lately, I don't think they've become a satire paper. Maybe, though... 🙄 @StephaneHuart @GottaLaff I just learned that the sandy Hook families will get shares in the new company so they will share in its success. I’m signing up as soon as it launches @StephaneHuart @GottaLaff I think we have an answer, and the answer is, "No, they won't."      @GottaLaff Oh may they have the skill to do it in a way that regular readers don't notice at first. Can we gently de-program them this way?  @GottaLaff The writers at The Onion are extremely clever and malevolently cynical. infowars.com could become an excellent honeytrap for conspiracy theorists, incels, 3%ers, ProudBois, wannabe Nazis, and other violent MAGAt groups. Then they just sweep up their personal contact info, track 'em back to their homes + jobs ... and doxx the fuck outta them. 🤔 Twill be interesting to see their ads for 'nad tanning, survival rations, and tactical pens. 😎 @GhostOnTheHalfShell @GottaLaff You're right, of course. No sense infuriating them any more than they already are. OTOH ... to quote Inspector Kemp: "A riot is an ugly thing ... and it's about damn time we had one!!!"   It was money well spent. This is the best satire ever.. TheOnion staff are more intelligent than most government officials. They understand where the far right gets so much traction.   @GottaLaff The important question is, did Dan and Jordan from Knowledge Fight! get Alex's desk?!?  @JonChevreau @GottaLaff Today, the YouTube version of The Onion is reporting that Taylor Swift was arrested for having a tour bus full of guns and drugs, so you can see they are scraping the bottom of the barrel in trying to report any kind of story that is obviously not true. @samloonie @JonChevreau @GottaLaff I mean we did have a gunfight in Toronto with 100 shots fired a couple days ago.... Amazingly no person got shot. Many bullets did hit an unmarked police car that was already on scene for an apparently unrelated investigation though. Clearly nothing to do with the Tour. The real flag was writing about a tour bus rather than private jet though. @HarriettMB @GottaLaff She looks different there than she did n Strictly!🤣 🤣  That is awesome. And it had to be approved by a judge so you know he's just giggling about it the whole time.   @GottaLaff Would be worth only to troll Jones I guess :blobcatgiggle: Or linking it to Ricky would be fun :rickroll: But this seems a good way @GottaLaff I've been thinking about this story the last couple hours... It really feels as if The Onion has rode in to save our collective emotional health for the next 4 years! @GottaLaff  Ha! Die crying, Foolverine. @GottaLaff https://mastodon.social/@nabilzzaq/113481460781429230 🚨 This isn’t a Hollywood movie—it’s a relentless tragedy in Gaza. @GottaLaff "If I must die, you must live to tell my story." 🚨This isn’t Hollywood—this is Gaza. Near my tent, bombs fall, erasing families. Do we deserve to vanish without a trace? I’m exhausted, reaching out with the hope that someone will help us survive.💔 🙏🔄Donate or Share: gofund.me/73675284   @GottaLaff From The Onion: "...a formidable special interest group has outwitted the hapless owner of InfoWars (a forgettable man with an already-forgotten name)" Glorious. Thank you - so much. This is the first positive thing I've seen (regarding regulations, law, government, capitalism, etc) on Mastodon since the election. Good for the Onion! I had to web search for independent verification. Well done The Onion, they have out-Onioned themselves. @GottaLaff As the time lag between satire and reality collapses to zero, we enter… the #Dongularity  @GottaLaff LOL, the best news ever. Looking forward to the first infowar posts by The Onion.  |
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@GottaLaff OMG lol