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BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

Nothing is funnier than The Onion taking over Infowars and making rainbow merchandise.

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Nothing is funnier than The Onion taking over Infowars and making rainbow merchandise.

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BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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  • Cyber Cafe@lemmy.world
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    On paper, I feel like onion acquiring infowars could have been kind of uninteresting, but the way it’s unfolding has me dying laughing. Tim Heidecker being involved, Alex still having access to the studio, shirtless, ranting and raving about how the left are body snatchers (as if he didn’t completely bring this on himself).

    It’s borderline adult swim absurdity. I love it

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    It is funny, but I’m going to wait on buying any InfoWars merch until the change in ownership has really sunk into the collective consciousness. InfoWars is just too culturally toxic atm, and I don’t want to carry anything around remotely related to Alex Jones.

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      Pride colors with an onion in the middle.

      I’d say you’re safe, but… I had a woman yell at me for “pushing my agenda in her face in front of her child” while quietly reading on my phone eating at Panda Express with one of these color run t-shirts on.

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      Yeah but limited edition… If they do succeed, and it does sink into the collective consciousness, then these items might end up being desirable. Could be cool to sport the og Onion Wars shirt years from now

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        If

        You’ve described gambling, now.

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          I mean, only if you base the entire value of the shirt on whether or not it happens. I happen to also like the design of the shirt.

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          Hence my predisposition to letting the name cool off for a bit.

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    A big cut off the proceeds goes directly to the Sandy Hook families, too

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    It’s weird that my two most trusted institutions are a satirical newspaper and a rude card game, right?

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      One of my most trustworthy news sources is an imitation from cartoon which presents as a talking fish on Instagram

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    Last I heard they were still in the process. Has it been finalized yet?

    Edit- Awaiting the OK from Texas judges.

    It would cost the Onion $81k a month for the domain. The best part is that Jones is going through bankruptcy, having to sell off almost all of his belongings to compensate the families he harassed and slandered (libelled?)

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      Slandered.

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        The most perfectly cast part in all of cinema.

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        So, can we get ahold of the cue cards?

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          Still doesn’t count unless the cue cards were shown to the public.

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      Apparently finalized a few days ago. But the news was published in The Onion, so you can be forgiven for thinking it might be satire.

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        Yeah, they’re posting it all over the place. I’ve seen other platforms also posting it everywhere.

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      both. libel is print, slander is speech, he did both. some jurisdictions have rolled both crimes into slander to stop confusing the public.

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      Finalized a few days ago.

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    The gay frogs approve

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      they approve anything they’ve been drinking bud all day

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    I dunno, Alex Jones sharing old Adult Swim Tim Heidecker content like it’s real information is pretty damn funny.

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      Did he really? It just keeps getting better.

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      Wait when did this happen?!

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        Like over the last 2 or 3 days I guess.

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    Infowars is making the tshirts gay.

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      Onion really needs rainbow frog shirts with the Infowars logo.

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    It’s going to be hard to satirize Infowars. This is a real shirt Alex Jones is selling now:

    https://thealexjonesstore.com/cdn/shop/files/26AJ_LTD_LOW_IQ_SHIRT_2_TECHPACK.png?v=1775856420&width=800

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      So they’re wearing shirts with which they self identify as low iq now? Are they getting self aware? Before ai? That’s a surprise…

      Or is it a black shirt with low iq, basically fully bringing out in the open the thinly veiled dog whistle of trump using the term whenever he’s talking about women of color?

      Yeah more that, i think

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        It’s a reference to trump calling Alex jones, Candace owens and some others “low IQ” in a recent social media rant. Thing is, no one is gonna know this and they’re just gonna wear a shirt that accidentally admits a harsh truth lol

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    Link to this limited-edition thing in the Onion store.

    Here’s the rest of their Onion/Infowars merch.

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      Thanks for the links. I like the shirt, but I’d be kind of worried that people would see info wars and miss the onion and rainbow and get the wrong idea about me.

      Still, probably worth it haha

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    Can they make a frog sized version so we can gay the frogs?

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