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While the Onion buying InfoWars is indeed extremely funny, very few of the posts I've seen commenting on the sale have mentioned that the families of the Sandy Hook victims apparently agreed to voluntarily reduce their lawsuit payout as part of a deal to ensure that the Onion would acquire InfoWars wholesale, rather than having the company broken up and auctioned off piecemeal, as the latter course could potentially have allowed some of those pieces to end up back in the hands of Alex Jones' cronies.

Like, yes, it is in fact very funny that InfoWars is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Onion, but the real props go out to the Sandy Hook families who saw the opportunity and willingly gave up the additional millions of dollars that could have been realised by stripping InfoWars for parts in order to make that happen.

(EDIT: Fixed a sentence incorrectly suggesting that Clickhole is still affiliated with the Onion – it totally slipped my mind that they'd sold it back in 2020.)

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Chef’s kiss

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Happy birthday Queen

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hope is a skill

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BE MAD BE SAD BUT DONT U DARE GIVE UP

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I'm certain this is on Tumblr somewhere, but I haven't seen it around, so I'm sharing it myself

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here’s what you’re going to do today:

-you’re going to look up charities in your community you can give some of your time to. even just an hour a week. and you’re going to send out an application.

-you’re going to donate $5 to someone in gaza

-you’re going to find out where your local dems meet up, and you’re going to mark the next meeting on your calendar

-you're going to find your local chapter of ranked choice voting and get involved in whatever way you can

-you're going to download coldturkey or another website blocker and get the fuck off social media for a while. you're going to play a game or make some art or spend some time with people you love

-you're going to reach out to friends and family and neighbors and support each other

-you're going to do one small, tangible, positive thing for someone today. and then you're going to do that every day for the next four years. the only way out is through, and apathy and hopelessness won't help anyone, including you

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refraining from a lot of election joke posting and instead I just donated $55 USD to gaza soup kitchen and i encourage anyone else to consider donating even a couple of dollars to the people who will be affected the most from whatever outcome happens

you can also donate to care for gaza here

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your landlord is gonna vote. your shitty boss is gonna vote. your dumbest coworker is gonna vote. your worst uncle is gonna vote. the biggest dickhead you've ever met? is DEFINITELY gonna vote. are you really going to let THEM decide how the next four years of your fucking life plays out?