• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Just a reminder that the national review is a garbage rag and a biased source.

    The judge had questions about the process used to decide the onion had won, and reviewed the information. That’s not the same as blocking the sale.
    A hearing is normal after the sale of assets, and the people making the claim that it’s not are the other buyer, which is … Alex Jones.

    Jones was accused of peddling the narrative that the shooting, in which a gunman killed 20 first-grade students and six teachers twelve years ago, was a massive hoax designed to get federal gun-control legislation enacted. The plaintiffs alleged Jones defamed them on his show and inflicted emotional distress.

    That’s a very slanted way to say “Jones was convicted of defamation and inflicting emotional distress on the families of a school shooting by insisting their children weren’t real”.

    https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-infowars-auction-onion-how-d42e7b2c916205b348628686c8b8dd4a

    https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3lb3hecp7l22k

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    Man, the onion buying infowars was the one good news story this entire month… of course we can’t even have that

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    National Review isn’t a reliable “news” source. It’s more like a version of the old supermarket crap like the The Enquirer, only with a politics lean instead of People Magazine lean.

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    5 days ago

    That judge sounds butthurt. I wonder who appointed him….

    Well well well he was appointed by Carl E Stewart who was appointed by Slick Willy. Not what I expected.

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    Maybe the judge was worried, in the current political climate, that if the Onion owned InfoWars, a lot more frogs would be turned gay. And frankly, being a gay frog in present day America just isn’t really a great way to live with all of the oppression.

    So really, the judge is doing the frogs a favour.