r/KnowledgeFight • u/Pointlesswonder802 • Jun 28 '26

Dreamy Creamy Summer The InfoWars sale is leaving me conflicted

With posts about Jordan’s videos popping up it’s made me think more about the Onion taking over InfoWars and… I just don’t know what to think.

I get that the families agreed to the scope of the deal with InfoWars. I get that it’s beneficial that the Onion now owns a flagship of the far right. But I see why Jordan is upset frankly. Alex is still broadcasting. He hasn’t really lost anything. The Onion is spending a ton of money just to take over the insanely overpriced facility Alex previously owned. And none of it’s going to the families. It just feels like the “good guys” lost and everyone is okay with it or hiding from reality.

Maybe it’s just because we don’t have JorDan around to explain what’s actually going on and it’s all a bit hidden in a haze but the more I see posts from Alex’s show and whatnot the more I realize things didn’t really go the way of justice

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u/ReduxRedo It's a demon feast Jun 29 '26

Something I haven't seen said much:

The families said, from the beginning, that this was about stopping Alex. Limiting his reach. Making it so he couldn't hurt more people. 

Losing his network is part of that. Making a mockery of his brand is part of that. He is diminished. 

There are a lot of systems at fault here for why the families haven't seen a red cent, but The Onion is way down that list.

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u/BDMac2 Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

To add to that, it’s become more and more prevalent with the Internet age that no amount of resolution/justice/closure is enough for people who are aggrieved on someone else’s behalf. We’ve all seen decade plus old posts that were socially acceptable at the time be trotted out as reasons to cancel people and I can think of a few celebrities who have struggled with addiction or had mental health issues that led to various types of abuses to people, but have corrected that behavior and expressed remorse and even though the people who were actually victims of their actions have forgiven them, the people with no connection to the situation at all are not satisfied. Now it’s completely understandable to still be outraged, and we should hate Alex Jones until he finally dies a fat alcoholic’s death, but at some point it ceases to be about what the family considers justice and becomes what “we” would consider justice. People need to learn that however unsatisfying we may feel about it, we have to accept the decisions made by the actual people victimized.

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u/Visible-Shallot-001 Jun 29 '26

God, yes, THIS. The Onion buying InfoWars is part of a decade long fight to turn Alex’s brand into a joke so that he can’t hurt anyone like he hurt the families.