The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’

My favorite part of this:

...Collins said that “part of the reason we did bought InfoWars is because people on Bluesky told us it would be funny to buy InfoWars” adding that “those people were right” this “is the funniest thing that has ever happened”.

Honestly, considering how much of a clown Alex Jones was, they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete at comedic levels!

Either way, this may be the best news I've heard all year, thank you!

They should harness the crazy for good. Make conspiracy theory-sounding stories, but make them factual and get people to take positive action.

"They created chemicals you can inject into the bloodstream that keeps them from getting the Measels."

"The overlords in their golden towers want to tell you who you are and aren't allowed to love."

The funniest piece is going to be seeing old followers believe it’s still the InfoWars they know and love. It took forever for people to stop eating the onion in large numbers, and it still manages to happen on occasion.

There is opportunity here. Initially, anyway.

This was not on my bingo card.

Info Wars might actually become credible

https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3lawdnw4fqk2s

Through it all, InfoWars has shown an unswerving commitment to manufacturing anger and radicalizing the most vulnerable members of society—values that resonate deeply with all of us at Global Tetrahedron.

I genuinely don't know how they plan to make a parody of InfoWars that will not be indistinguishable from the original thing.

Fucking awesome. Onion has been hitting it hard lately, and this is just the cherry on top. I am hopeful this makes some chuds question their minds.

very funny, very stupid

Well, their work is half done already!

truly the wildest of timelines

This is what I call a master class on starting a soft revolution: you take over a symbol of the opposite ideology, in the most outrageous and ridiculous way, make it known to all, and completely subvert it and deconstruct it, piece by piece, until it stops making any sense to its former self.

For me, the cherry on top is how the "InfoWars" name is still completely apt, for completely different reasons.

Counterpoint, it was already stupid.

Is it The Onion? Or Not the Onion?

Yes

Will anyone visiting know the difference?

Saw the news on their YouTube. Looked it up thinking it was satire and sure as shit it’s not. Probably the fastest I’ve ever purchased merch ever. Gonna love wearing my onion shirt, always loved them but this was the point I needed to send them some money because this is hilarious.

The Onion's first headline needs to be:

"Oh Shit! It's ALL true!"

They should send Alex Jones a $1 "royalty" check every month - just so that he doesn't forget it.

im sorry but the owner's name is tim onion. please publish a correction.

Finally some good news!

Remember Stephen Colbert's satire? Conservatives loved him.

Satire of something already completely outlandish is problematic.

I hope they keep Alex Jones's communism financing operation going.

LoL, AJ lost the Info War. 🤣👍

Listen, I keep saying that reality is better satire than satire, BUT COME ON!

Great idea. Who didn't like the Colbert Report? Could turn out like a right-wing populist Repor!

But he's got a serious side. You know what those globalists are doing...

Can't wait for Dan and Jordan to cover this

Do they have rights to use Jones' likeness, in the sense of reposting old clips and the like?

Its also exactly the kind of thing you'd expect to read about in the onion.

This is beyond mear irony.

Best news I've seen in weeks

This should be good...

I mean, it’s already half way there, all they got to do is make it funny

Does this mean they're Alex Jones's boss now?

Oh my god what a power move. More power to them, seriously. Best outcome we could have gotten

Next week's headlines "Alex Jones appointed as Secretary of State" or some other wackass shit.

That pushed me over the edge to subscribe to the print edition

I thought that was a joke. But regular news sites are running the story. So maybe it's real?

I wonder what they paid 🤣

It took me a while to realize this is actually true. Reality is amazing.

Lol I am so happy about this.

Honestly, I would love for them to turn it into just a bastion of info. Just detail the goings-on of the current government.

THEY TURNED THE FREAKIN FROG GAY!!!!!!!

ITS NOT FUNNY!!!

Who did they give money to? Maybe it would've been better if they just created a offbrand infowars.

This just made my day

Alien diarrhea is the real cause of global warning!

This is the best thing that's ever happened

This is fucking hilarious, best news I've heard in forever.

This is so weird, I just read a comment on Lemmy where someone said they should do exactly this.

Musk just had a judge in Texas say they're going to review the bid. I guess we know who the other bidder was now.

meaning even more so

So....the onion is now donating money to Alex Jones.

Thats kinda fucked.

Well they only need to do the first part of that.