• cmxch 2 days ago

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

    • ChrisArchitect 3 days ago

      Related:

      The Onion Buys Alex Jones's Infowars Out of Bankruptcy

      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42136259

      • 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

              • mdp2021 3 days ago

                A very nice Welsh lady; she presents The One Show for the BBC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones_(Welsh_presenter)

                You must got confused because she has been on Would I Lie to You.

                • 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

                      • barbazoo 3 days ago

                        exactly

                • 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.

                      • nixdev 2 days ago

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                      • RIMR 3 days ago

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                        • idiotsecant 3 days ago

                          Like....