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The Onion and other satire w/ layersI lost hope that The Onion have lost the legal battle to acquire InfoWars. But alas, there indeed a god!
The onion sucks, and plagarizes better men.
I just made it to the first “commercial break”. Damn I’m glad to have the day off.
First half of the headline got me lol
Dang, I ate the onion
Haven't been able to watch it all yet; have to head to work. But man oh man, Jim Haggerty with the everyman Colbert Show vibes. Love it. And Tim's Alex Jones impression is spot...on.
Tim's going to completely shred his voice doing this character
From the picture I couldn't even tell it was him.
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.
some of the commercials are theirs
None of them are real commercials, sadly, not even Turn Your Gold Into Piss
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."
Wow, he could have apologised and settled out of court at any time, and instead we get a worm crawling down every hole.
The conservative and libertarian mind can only ever think about themselves.
I did not know any of this. Thank you.
The lying mainstream media is not even mentioning his death!!!!!111
I laughed out loud every time they showed that video.
Omg I have been waiting to see what they do with this IP. I gotta make sure I come back.
It looks like they'll be doing a live stream every Thursday evening.
Tonight's was great. I learned a lot. Like JFK didn't kill himself. I never ever considered that he might have been assassinated.
Come on man, you really buy this conspiracy shit? Everyone knows his head just kinda did that on its own.
"We really have no idea how medium-up this goes."
It's definitely off to a good start.
So far I've learned Alex Jones is unable to grow hair on the top of his head
OH YEAH I totally forgot that The Onion acquired InfoWars after Alex Jones was forced to sell due to multiple legal proceedings including his divorce and a lawsuit from Sandy Hook shooting victims that he claimed were actors.
Apparently the actual sale of Infowars is still tied up in court. What they're doing here is just creating their own Infowars despite that, consequences be damned. Alex Jones isn't in any position to protect the trademark and The Onion is calling it parody.
Alex Jones doesn't own any IP any more. His bankruptcy estate owns the shares in the business that used to be his. So Alex Jones can't sue for any infringement. In fact Alex Jones continued to illegally use the studio and the branding for months after he lost the rights to do so.
In theory Jones's bankruptcy estate's liquidator / administrator could sue on behalf of the estate. But that guy was trying to award the auction to the Onion in the first place.
The Onion tried to strike a short term lease deal, which hasn't been approved yet. So they're just going to make the lease payments to the plaintiffs directly for the time being.
And they think they're in a pretty legally defensible situation, because, hey, who's going to sue them?
By the way, the court ruled that the judgement can't be discharged in bankruptcy. So Jones is coming out of bankruptcy, and he still owes the full amount (less whatever is collected from the Onion) personally. He doesn't get a clean slate. Any future income of his can be garnished and assets seized down to some minimum. For the rest of his life.
I read this in weird al's voice, but like he's saying the whole thing at once in one big breath.
I thought there was another issue. I'm so glad, I fucking love it.
Edit: I think this show is going to get followers like Colbert got followers because they thought it was real. There's a hole to fill.
I just want Knowledge Fight back.
Did they stop? I feel like I listened to some new episodes earlier this year
They quit in May of this year, shortly after the Onion announced their plans for InfoWars.com. Jordan had a very negative reaction to the Onion development, and streamed this on Twitch. Dan and Jordan couldn’t agree on a way to move forward, and amicably parted ways. They explain the situation in the penultimate episode, the last studio episode. The final episode was a pre-scheduled live show that they both agreed to go through with.
Jordan still streams occasionally on Twitch at jay_bee_holmes. I’m still waiting for whatever Dan does next.
Edit: Dan just dropped the first episode of his new podcast, minutes after I posted this! What a coincidence. It’s on the old KF feed.
Popped like a balloon
I think onion had a great opportunity to fix the damage Alex jones did back then but instead they went for “adult swim” direction. I bet there were lots of previous info wars watchers would have started watching it thinking it was back. Could have had the potential to educate them at least a couple. But yeah, gotta show those ads so it’s “lulz” direction.
This would have been onions entry to get into actual news industry. I think onion literally contributes nothing to anything. I really think the world in this situation because people are not taking serious what sort of direction we’re headed to. You don’t see any single racist media spending their time to make clown shows. They have their actual clowns like rogan to boost their credibility. I admit I haven’t watched the whole thing. If I want something silly, I would have watch Tim and Eric instead.
Idk man. I think they’ve really missed their shot to make something actually useful with info wars. Oh well, everything sucks anyway.
Jordan?
All of the money the receive goes to Sandy Hook families. So there's that.
Edit: I'm watching it now, and I have to disagree. Satire has its place, and there's a lot of value in showing just how absurd these people are.
