The Onion to Take over InfoWars
130 points by lxm 3 days ago | 19 comments
gnabgib 4 hours ago
Discussion (627 points, 2 days ago, 320 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837611
replyqwertytyyuu 46 minutes ago
No way, i can't believe it actually happened! I would have though alex would though alex and his goons would have managed to stop it
replytreebeard901 3 hours ago
Turning into an odd form of a take over. Basically renting it for 3 months to let Tim Heidecker do a few shows??
replyrazorbeamz 3 days ago
I hope Dan and Jordan can get the desk like they've always wanted.
replytreebeard901 3 hours ago
I'm concerned they won't know what to do without Alex. Already going back over shows from 2006...
replymellosouls 3 hours ago
Editorialized title. It has a plan to take over that will need approval. Lots of non-paywalled coverage that would be better links, eg:
replyhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/20/the-onion-al...
See previous discussion linked in sibling as well.
phendrenad2 2 hours ago
A million dollars a year for... what? A gag that fans of infowars won't watch, and there aren't enough anti-fans to appreciate? It feels personal at this point.
replyHerbManic 2 hours ago
Tim heidecker summarised their thinking wonderfully.
reply"I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity”.
luke727 2 hours ago
Not to mention Alex Jones is still up and running elsewhere spreading his nonsense and hawking his merch. So it's a cute gag, I guess, and gets the Sandy Hook families some money, but doesn't really change the status quo.
replywatwut 2 hours ago
> It feels personal at this point.
replyIt is openly and proudly personal. It is also political, also openly.
unconed 37 minutes ago
It's also incredibly petty and feels like a sanctioned Two Minute Hate for wannabe edgy lefties who don't have a single actually heretical bone in their body.
replyjjj123 4 minutes ago
Seems appropriate for satirists to do a petty attack on a bad man. That’s kind of the whole thing, isn’t it?
replyI’d rather it be collective action that produces real change, but humor is cathartic so I’ll take it.
"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.
No price would be too high for such a cornucopia of malleable assets and minds. And yet, in a stroke of good fortune, a formidable special interest group has outwitted the hapless owner of InfoWars (a forgettable man with an already-forgotten name) and forced him to sell it at a steep bargain: less than one trillion dollars..."
Full statement here https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/