The funniest thing to do would be to turn it into either a legitimate leftist new site or a leftist themed nujob conspiracy mill (though I don’t know how that would work).
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I genuinely don’t know how they plan to make a parody of InfoWars that will not be indistinguishable from the original thing.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
RandomVideos@programming.dev 5 months ago
“The rich intentionally causing global warming to make people have to use cars”
Ton@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Bingo. Slowly turn them onto each other…
booly@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
leftist themed nujob conspiracy mill
The Republican party is ripe for conspiracy theory targets.
Epstein had close ties with Trump and his attorney general Bill Barr (whose father hired Epstein to teach at a prestigious private high school without a college degree, where he was known for ogling the high school girls and showing up to parties where underage drinking was happening). The waitresses and hostesses at Trump’s Mar a Lago were also regularly recruited to work at Epstein’s island. Alex Acosta, the federal prosecutor who agreed to a secret plea deal where Epstein served a slap on the wrist in a local jail instead of real prison was later elevated to Trump’s cabinet, as Labor Secretary.
Now, Trump has named another child sex trafficker as his nominee for Attorney General.
There are suspicious ties between the Saudi royal family and key members in Trump’s orbit, including his son in law Jared Kushner. Elon Musk has been doing sketchy shit with the Saudis and the Russians, as well. Basically everyone in Trump’s circle, including his nominee to be the director of national intelligence, has shady ties with foreign adversaries.
There’s lots of other little things about financial profiteering by the Trump folks: an SBA COVID bailout that went to huge businesses, a move to privatize or sabotage the public postal service and the weather service to help the private competition, arbitrary or politically motivated regulations to help certain businesses while hurting others, etc.
I mean, it really wouldn’t be hard.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
The hard part would be doing it in a way that pulls in the kind of people who listened to Alex Jones.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 5 months ago
Yes but slowly and using language they’re familiar with. Lure them into it
Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I’m hoping something similar to what The Colbert Report used to be.
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They’re very, very good at it
nobody158@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I for one am excited to see what they are going to do with it.