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[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

Get out the UV light and make sure to wear gloves around it.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Forget that, just lease the desk to a company that makes gay and trans porn and have people fuck on it.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

that's not what jones used it for?

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There was nothing else in the news today but this. Every person on the planet knows at this point.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Except the person who just asked what it was about, I imagine that's why they asked .

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Not when they exclusively get their news from fox, tucker, and Alex Jones. Most probably have no clue. One downside to isolationist media.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if OP means this, but given that the acquisition headline has been posted 500 times today, I assume they meant "what's the deal with the desk?"

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world -3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

"It's the desk from InfoWars, which The Onion just bought."

Better? Sorry I assumed y'all could put two and two together (it's four, btw).

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

I guess "the desk" is something that people who watch infowars know about? "The desk from infowars" doesn't give the rest of us any context.

Why didn't they ask about the carpet, or the refrigerator? What's so special about the desk?

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Okay, I did a bit of googling and I think they refer to this desk:

Which... I guess... is iconic if you watch InfoWars?

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

This whole conversation makes this post make a lot more sense.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (5 children)

c/NotTheOnionButAlsoYesTheOnion

Who owns The Onion? What to know after satire publication buys Alex Jones' Infowars

The current owner and chairman of The Onion is Jeff Lawson, with Ben Collins listed as chief executive officer, according to the publication's website.

However, The Onion's parent company is Global Tetrahedron, where Bryce P. Tetraeder is CEO.

Collins should GTFO of Bluesky, because it is a Nazi bar, about as much as 𝕏itter is.

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Wat? It's full of gay furries and IT professionals haha

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

And Xitter is full of porn and neoliberal, Democratic party-aligned pundits, but doesn’t negate the fact that it’s a Nazi bar.

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Not any more. Didn't they ban porn? Haha

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

No. Is that a recent development? The Verge in June: X has new rules that officially allow porn now

[–] StarPupil@ttrpg.network 3 points 10 hours ago

But you repeat yourself

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

nope, their name is tim onion.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

and go where exactly? It's not as if fedi is any less fascist, racist etc. Quite the opposite in fact.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you’re running into fascists and racists, then maybe you’re hanging out in the wrong parts of the fediverse.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org -1 points 1 day ago

What I'm saying is that it's no less a white supremacist network than anywhere else and I'm on an instance that has a zero tolerance policy for it. Yet people still show who they are even on 'good' instances that they don't (yet) block all too often, even and especially admins.

[–] NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Hope Dan has room in his home studio!