[HN Gopher] Here's Why I Decided to Buy 'InfoWars' [The Onion, b...
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Here's Why I Decided to Buy 'InfoWars' [The Onion, but real news]
Author : latexr
Score : 46 points
Date : 2024-11-14 15:14 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (theonion.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (theonion.com)
| xhkkffbf wrote:
| Was anyone bidding against the Onion?
| davidt84 wrote:
| Alex Jones was apparently involved somehow in a competing bid.
| There may have been others.
| barbazoo wrote:
| Who is Alex Jones? /s
| r00fus wrote:
| a forgettable man with an already-forgotten name
| barbazoo wrote:
| exactly
| travisporter wrote:
| Fellow anglophiles or British - is your Alex Jones a
| household name?
| 4rt wrote:
| i've heard of her, she's been on mainstream tv for a long
| time doing a sort of morning tv job on one of the top few
| channels.
|
| edit: i looked her up, its "The One Show" a sort of
| after-work magazine style show on BBC1. i've not had a TV
| license for 4-5 years so i can only remember the
| programme format (and her strong welsh accent).
| mdp2021 wrote:
| A very nice Welsh lady; she presents _The One Show_ for the
| BBC.
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones_(Welsh_presenter)
|
| You must got confused because she has been on _Would I Lie
| to You_.
| RIMR wrote:
| >but real news
|
| Sorta. I don't think a lot of the details in the article are
| true.
| idiotsecant wrote:
| Like....
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Related:
|
| _The Onion Buys Alex Jones 's Infowars Out of Bankruptcy_
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42136259
| datavirtue wrote:
| I remember when Infowars started. I was using rense.com for my
| daily news fix and was thoroughly caught up in conspiracy
| theories and all number of speculation around aliens
| interbreeding with humans...way before it was cool.
|
| I became an anti-semetic, pizza-gate nut job and recovered long
| before the droves of internet noobs even caught on or showed up.
|
| When you hear it all for the first time in isolation as a young
| person it is VERY compelling. When your life is devoid of wealth
| it is even easier to go down the rabbit hole.
|
| I used to read Alex Jones every day and was surprised to see it
| was still a thing in recent times and I was even more taken back
| at how looney it had become. Back in my day it was far more
| palpable. Alex Jones, Elon Musk are a few examples of what
| wealth, power and drugs can do to a human being. Power is the
| worst of all and I would never wish it on anyone.
| euroderf wrote:
| And there was Rush Limbaugh
| datavirtue wrote:
| Rush brainwashed a whole generation of boomers and their
| parents. Alex Jones barely registers compared to the damage
| Rush caused.
| steve_avery wrote:
| Ah, imagine that candy bar of omnivitamins! The rush of
| invigoration you'd get from a single morsel. Wow!
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