• harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      It looks like they’ll be doing a live stream every Thursday evening.

      Tonight’s was great. I learned a lot. Like JFK didn’t kill himself. I never ever considered that he might have been assassinated.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)@lemmy.ca
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    When I was out and about today, I listened to the head of The Onion being interviewed on NPR. He talked a lot about the ways Alex Jones has tried to get out of paying the families of the Sandy Hook kids that were killed like he’s required to. They tried to devalue Info Wars, and then have a shell company buy it at auction for a tiny amount so that there would be no money to pay the families. Apparently that was the original motivation for The Onion bidding on it and bidding it up: to make sure there was money for the families, and also they thought they could do something with it.

    That whole thing is still in litigation, with Jones saying the company really has no value. So The Onion is releasing new content of the kind they intend to do on the site, in hopes that people will stream it and show the judge that there’s an audience and a value. I decided to watch the first episode even if it’s terrible, to give them the views.

    It’s not terrible, it’s hilarious. Well worth watching. Note that some of the commercials are theirs, and you might not want to skip those.

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      some of the commercials are theirs

      None of them are real commercials, sadly, not even Turn Your Gold Into Piss

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        No, it’s real. And, there’s a glitch where you get more piss for the gold than gold for the piss. Infinite piss. What more could you want?

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      Alex Jones is truly a malevolent POS (person of shit) and so are his fans. I wish nothing but the worst for them.

      I caught the live stream about halfway through. I skipped back to the beginning and I really enjoyed it. I plan on watching it every week, hopefully live, to help boost their numbers.

      The ad for Oxygyn was truly hilarious and I like that they’re still running with “Turn Your Piss into Gold.”

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      Wow, he could have apologised and settled out of court at any time, and instead we get a worm crawling down every hole.