[www.nytimes.com]

[theonion.com]

Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of brands. And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, interchangeable assets for their patriarch to absorb and discard according to the opaque whims of the market. And just like family members, our brands regard one another with mutual suspicion and malice.

All told, the decision to acquire InfoWars was an easy one for the Global Tetrahedron executive board.

Founded in 1999 on the heels of the Satanic “panic” and growing steadily ever since, InfoWars has distinguished itself as an invaluable tool for brainwashing and controlling the masses. With a shrewd mix of delusional paranoia and dubious anti-aging nutrition hacks, they strive to make life both scarier and longer for everyone, a commendable goal. They are a true unicorn, capable of simultaneously inspiring public support for billionaires and stoking outrage at an inept federal state that can assassinate JFK but can’t even put a man on the Moon.

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I wish I had a cult leader to tell me how to feel about this.

(Edit: Hopefully they can somehow start to deprogram some from the convicted felon's death cult before they take us all down with them.)

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I'm still not sure if this is The Onion being The Onion ...

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Comedy Central: Best news channel that isn't a news channel.

Fox News: Best comedy channel that isn't a comedy channel.

My God... finally some good news.

genius

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!#$@@$#!

Nolite manducare flavo.

from the NYT link:

The publication plans to reintroduce Infowars in January as a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” like Mr. Jones who traffic in misinformation and health supplements, Ben Collins, the chief executive of The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, said in an interview.

I can't wait!

Woah! I thought this was an Onion parody but it's real! This sounds great. They are going to prank those MAGAt Infowars listeners mercilessly.

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"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion." (1987) -- Carl Sagan

I’m wondering about this too

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Fritz
genius

When i saw the headline posted on Facebook i was so confused but after reading what went down, yes, absolute genius! Kudos to The Onion for pulling this off.

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"Success isn't about how much money you make. It is about the difference you make in people's lives."--Michelle Obama

I hope any money they paid went to the Sandy Hook families, not to Alex Jones.

Humor and satire the two weapons that leaders of the far right loonysphere dread the most. Look for the US Department of Disinformation to target them soon.

I love all the idiot MAGAts on Twitter hollering about how all his audience is going to leave HA ha you got nuttin'. Because they seem to think the ONION bought InfoWars to keep it the way it was. lol

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Jones should be forced to work for them for room & board.

If we’re looking to The Onion to keep people honest, it’s probably time for serious news to take a hard look at itself.

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If we’re looking to The Onion to keep people honest, it’s probably time for serious news to take a hard look at itself.

Long past time.

For quite a while now, a lot of the really hard hitting criticism (are dare I say journalism) has come from comedy/satire sources like The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

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RgrF
If we’re looking to The Onion to keep people honest, it’s probably time for serious news to take a hard look at itself.

Long past time.

For quite a while now, a lot of the really hard hitting criticism (are dare I say journalism) has come from comedy/satire sources like The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

you're both nuts - satire is satire - news is news. No one is looking to the Onion to keep people honest. They're looking for laughs.

This isn't journalism.

They are going to use it as a parody account. I'm not sure the world needs a fake InfoNews parody account, but I suppose I should wait and see it before I pass judgement.

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The Onion reports that actual media outlets have been contacting them to ask for interviews with the fictitious publisher of The Onion, Bryce P. Tetraeder. The CEO of the Onion, Ben Collins, says this is really real. And people wonder why I am so over the media.

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Just so the Onion keeps peddling InfoWars vitamins.

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Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.

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you're both nuts - satire is satire - news is news. No one is looking to the Onion to keep people honest. They're looking for laughs.

This isn't journalism.

Hmmm... Not familiar with "political satire" or "political cartoons"? Both have been around for centuries, and both have had major influence from time to time.

"Political satire has played a role in American Politics since the 1700s. Under King George's rule, the colonies used political cartoons to criticize the parliament and fight for independence. Founding father Benjamin Franklin was a notable political satirist. He employed satire in several essays, including Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One and A Witch Trial at Mount Holly."



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Just awesome. They are thus burning it down - there will be no way for him to use the change in the White House to 'undo' this.

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Just awesome. They are thus burning it down - there will be no way for him to use the change in the White House to 'undo' this.

Queue the aforementioned, newly formed US Department of Disinformation, to be headed by... Alex Jones.

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Woah! I thought this was an Onion parody but it's real! This sounds great. They are going to prank those MAGAt Infowars listeners mercilessly.


This.Is.Awesome.

As purposed, going forward, it will serve to purposes, the first to prank MAGAts, and the second to be funny.

At first there may well be those MAGAts who believe it as God's truth because it's InfoWars and run with it, but that won't last.

But if we see signs of that, it will be POMTL time.

Second, what will be left is the ONION being the ONION, and that's good enough for me.

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I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

I welcome our new psych-altering overlords.

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High on a threshold yearning to sing
Down with the dancers having one last fling