#Fuck you Alex Jones

[acmesalesrep]

“The Connecticut families of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting that had sued Infowars and Jones backed the bid by The Onion to purchase Infowars’ intellectual property, including its website, customer lists and inventory, certain social media accounts and the production equipment used to put Jones on the air. The Connecticut families agreed to forgo a portion of their recovery to increase the overall value of The Onion’s bid, ‘enabling its success,’ according to lawyers for the families.”

Incredible. Also, hilarious.

[deehellcat]

not completely out of nowhere! on bluesky for weeks now, ever since Jones' bankruptcy put Infowars' assets up for auction, people have been telling Ben Collins who runs the Onion that they ought to buy it. He even admitted just now that was part of the reason they went for it. LOL. Hang on, I'll go find the skeet.

THE ONION OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE

[songandstarstarot]

You know, we may live in the timeline where tr*mp became president again. But, at least we also live in the timeline where The Onion now owns InfoWars.

[epically-epic-epicosity]

[victusinveritas]

[just-antithings]

elon musk got deposed by MARK BANKSTON?!?!?

[frankenshane]

the onion is going to Be Even More Annoying now, aren't they?

[arsonistsam]

Time and again, the women in Supernatural are either treated as disposable objects or manipulative bitches.

to all the fridged and frigid bitches x Mother- Florence + The Machine

[sunlitlemonade]

about to throw up and pass out why can't alex and yassen be normal about each other

[aemiron-main]

fun fact: my biological father believes that covid isn’t a virus but is, in fact, caused by snake venom being in peoples’ tap water.

[gobbluthbutagirl]

and like…i COULD turn reblogs off of course but the vast majority of people are being normal. i’m not gonna take the entire post away from everyone just because maybe 75 of the 22,000+ notes on it were people acting dumb. it’s a very small fraction of course but it’s also maybe 75 times that i had to see an idiot

[toytulini]

I dont know why youve leapt to assuming this post was about the workplace? the original post mentioned friends, family, and going out for drinks, and it feels a bit like a bad faith read to assume this meant for you to try to talk about weird niche TV show interests to your boss, when it seems far more likely to be a post about not letting cringe culture rule your entire life, in a time when its so common for ppl to let themselves become beholden to tiktok microtrends, and being terrified that theyll lose all their friends if anyone finds out they enjoy steven universe.

It’s crazy and fucked up that being yourself is actually the solution.

[lizardsfromspace]

Alex Jones is livestreaming rn and for the first and only time in my life it's appointment viewing. He got evicted from his studio mid-stream and they had to cover for him when he popped up in his "satellite studio" (a room in his house I assume) devoid of the Infowars branding. He's talking about how "tens of millions" of people have watched his final broadcast & you can literally see he has far less than a million viewers in the bottom corner (and this is on Twitter, which inflates views of videos ever since Elon had to convince people anyway gives a shit about Tucker Carlson's livestreams). He's currently whining that they chose not to sell his site back to him at auction, so he could keep doing the crimes that are why he was selling his website.

I didn't see this personally but he's apparently read out the Onion's announcement, which is a fake article by a fake corporation, out loud several times as if it was real. Anyway it should be noted how screwed he is, bc...

...while he can livestream under his own name, they own his warehouses of dubious supplements. He has nothing to sell but t-shirts protesting that his show is going down. Since Infowars was, first and foremost, a lifestyle brand, this leaves him, scientifically speaking, "totally fucked". He doesn't have ads, that's the only way he makes money

He just promised that he will "win the information war" which. You were sued into oblivion for lying about the parents of murdered children & lost your platform so hard you don't even have a studio anymore & your brand was seized by a rival to make fun of you. I didn't think the Infowar was a real thing you could lose, but I'm not sure there's a more definitive way to lose the information war. Anyway he's now ranting about fluoride

[aristoteliancomplacency]

Jesus Christ tumblr just had to go and be tumblr about this, didn’t it?

Portrait analysis: cool! Interesting opinions, reasonably argued.

Pretending your experience of working in setting X makes it possible for you to diagnose something in situation Y without ever having met any of the people involved?

Using that non-experience to claim you are positioned to pick up secret messages from the artist?

Congratulations! You have personally reached conspiracy theories!

And idk, when you’re calling Camilla his “ex-wife” who “probably has more good reasons to hate him than any other single human being alive” I start to doubt whether you have, y’know. Any idea who the queen consort, who the woman who is very much literally still his wife actually is. The woman he actually loved, and who actually loved him enough to marry him and stay married to him. That’s the woman who said it looks like him. Did you think it was Diana returned from the grave to pass judgement?

I will be honest guys, the Red portrait of king Charles is gorgeous asdfghjkl

it's a bad portrait. Like. Objectively. It does the opposite of what's intended. It looks like the painter is insulting him. If it was in a contemporary gallery with no context you would see it immediately as the ambivalent criticism of Charles's reign, how he fades into the overwhelming red background as a tiny little figure, small and insignificant, insufficient for the clothes he's wearing. It reminds my of Goya's portraits, how they were so 'realistic' that they ended up making these great figures look pathetic to the viewer. So these are our rulers?

the sheer novelty. the surprise and shock, the kinda cunt it's serving for no reason. I. I love it. It's an incredible portrait by Jonathan Yeo. By the sheer fact that Charles, the man, is impossible to portray as greater than man because he's just such a nothingburger of a dude. So a portrait made to make him look huge and interesting made him be swallowed in red brushstrokes. The butterfly, that reminded me immediately of " we will all laugh at guilded butterflies", draws more attention than him. It looks like an omen. It looks like a warning in all this red. Something is not right here.

This is the best royal portrait ever 10/10

[zooophagous]

Fun fact about Tobi: I have a blistering personal hatred for Alex Jones. Mostly because he was my mentally ill, brain damaged mother's (I'm not being cruel she literally has a hole in her brain from cancer) introduction to the world of conspiracy theories and alt right bullshit.

So for years, every now and then, I put a curse on him. Curses are fun because they let you feel like you're hurting someone without ever actually doing anything illegal that could conceivably harm them. My curse was in the form of a drawing- Anubis, the Egyptian god of death and judgment, as a jackal, eating the heart out of Jones' chest.

Today I wake up to the news that Jones' stupid fucking Infowars channel was bought by the Onion, who intends to gut it out and use its corpse as a puppet to mock the ignorance the channel once espoused as truth.

I'm not saying there is or is not a god. But I have a sneaking suspicion there might be an Anubis.

[metaforth]

Before anyone starts not only is this not the amount he wound up charged with but these amounts are always always set with the expectation that they'll be dramatically reduced later so the initial numbers are basically meaningless.

Also fun Fact Jon is once again friends with Peanut Butter Gamer who's also still all buddy buddy with Jirard the Completionist.

Like sure maybe Austin hasn't (to our knowledge) done anything himself but he is still associated with almost every member of Normal Boots all of which has pretty publicly done some nasty shit like... At a certain point you have to question if the guy who surrounds himself with Puppy Kickers might at the very least be pro-puppy-kicking