Here’s Why I Decided to Buy 'InfoWars' [The Onion, but real news]

76 pointsposted 3 days ago
by latexr
(theonion.com)

19 Comments

cmxch

2 days ago

Because it’s important to deny any chance for it to pass to the hands of the Wrong People(tm)

steve_avery

3 days ago

Ah, imagine that candy bar of omnivitamins! The rush of invigoration you'd get from a single morsel. Wow!

xhkkffbf

3 days ago

Was anyone bidding against the Onion?

davidt84

3 days ago

Alex Jones was apparently involved somehow in a competing bid. There may have been others.

barbazoo

3 days ago

Who is Alex Jones? /s

travisporter

3 days ago

Fellow anglophiles or British - is your Alex Jones a household name?

4rt

3 days ago

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).

r00fus

3 days ago

a forgettable man with an already-forgotten name

VTimofeenko

3 days ago

But credit is where credit's due -- not a bad Danzig impersonator

datavirtue

3 days ago

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.

FLT8

2 days ago

I'd love to hear about your recovery journey.. it seems like quite the gravity-well to have escaped from. Would you consider writing a blog post or sharing here?

euroderf

3 days ago

And there was Rush Limbaugh

datavirtue

3 days ago

Rush brainwashed a whole generation of boomers and their parents. Alex Jones barely registers compared to the damage Rush caused.