The ruling dashed, at least for now, the plans of The Onion’s parent company to take over Infowars and radically shift its content.
  • @BRINGit34@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    0•4 months ago

    Who would even want to buy it now? Clearly this is in such a legal fuckstorm no one with certainty can buy it.

    Feels like alex fucked himself out of a sale

    • @Alteon@lemmy.world
      0•4 months ago

      At least we now know why Musk was upset. He intended to buy it and hand it right back to Alex Jones. Can’t have the “alt-right” media sphere disappearing.

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]English
    0•4 months ago

    Not allowed to shoot CEOs, not allowed to buy your enemy’s company in a fair sale. What happened to the American dream

    • Ænima
      0•4 months ago

      Only boomers and Gen-x believed it. The rest of us grew up with the Internet and an ever-increasing feeling of betrayal.

      • @onwardknave@lemmy.ml
        0•4 months ago

        Please don’t lump Gen-Xers in with boomers. Why do you think Gen-X got its name? Disillusionment, detachment, loss of identity and purpose. Gen-X didn’t know what was wrong, but they knew enough to know they were left out. Even boomers aren’t to blame – they just have more people in the ownership class right now. If we divide along age and generational lines, the capitalists benefit.

        • Ænima
          0•4 months ago

          You’re right, I should not have lumped them in with boomers. That was a last minute and before submission to address the Marjorie’s/Karen’s of the world. Please accept my apologies.

  • TheDrink [he/him]English
    0•4 months ago

    This is pretty clearly interference from the judge. The guy who ran the bankruptcy auction has a ton of experience with this stuff and there is no reason to think he wasn’t impartial or that he didn’t get the best price for everything. Jones’ lawyers are just kicking the can down the road and delaying for as long as they can.

  • @Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
    0•4 months ago

    I thought they’d already bought it, I didn’t know it was still in question. What a bummer. This was going to be hilarious.

  • NuraShiny [any]English
    0•4 months ago

    Does the judge think that shitpile is gonna be worth much now? Like, unless they can force Alex to appear there and do skits, it’s just a fucking website without it’s, for lack of a better word, talent.

    Keep at it, Onion, the funny outcome was just delayed, not averted!