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The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ (www.theguardian.com)
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Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’ By Bryce P. Tetraeder, Global Tetrahedron CEO ☞ https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/

And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, interchangeable assets for their patriarch to absorb and discard according to the opaque whims of the market. And just like family members, our brands regard one another with mutual suspicion and malice.

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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is what I call a master class on starting a soft revolution: you take over a symbol of the opposite ideology, in the most outrageous and ridiculous way, make it known to all, and completely subvert it and deconstruct it, piece by piece, until it stops making any sense to its former self.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Like the right keeps doing with memes!

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

and words too. Even words get to mean exactly their antonyms :/

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Memes come and go too fast for that.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And yet a meme from a decade ago is about to become a government office

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which one?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doge. Much old. Very beaten into ground

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Oh. That one.