I know you on HN aren't actually interested in the truth, but here it is anyway. The Onion did not purchase Infowars: https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1857223561754059168?t=7Q-...
I can see it looks a bit iffy saying there's an auction and then taking a private bid without letting others bid.
To wit, I did some googling because of your message, not the X post. Best I can find right now is this NY Post [0] article, so I’ll continue watching to see how this unfolds.
[0] https://nypost.com/2024/11/15/media/infowars-sale-to-the-oni...
This is the essence of populism: revolting against a disliked and distrusted establishment by backing a significantly and very obviously worse alternative. Instead of the mainstream media which has proven itself untrustworthy let’s go for a full on con artist. Instead of bad journalism let’s have pure fantasy made up by dudes taking bong hits.
It’s the intellectual equivalent of protesting police misconduct by setting your own neighborhood on fire and destroying your own things. That’ll show em.
The domain obviously has changed owners.
I'm ashamed to be among this crowd sometimes.
On that note, anyone know of websites similar to HN that aren't filled to the brim with LA/NY brats? Other than /g/?