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The assets were auctioned off to pay his debt to the families of the Sandy Hook shooting.
So effectively they gave money to the families of children killed in a school shooting that he slandered in cruel and vile ways.

Given that the families pretty reasonably dislike him, the added bonus of his creation being used to openly mock him and promote a message they endorse is quality icing on the cake.

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half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
One thing the headlines aren’t mentioning is that the families actually even helped fund a portion of the Onion’s bid.

In order to make the bid work, a lawyer representing the families told CNN that the families “agreed to forgo a portion of their recovery to increase the overall value of the Onion’s bid, enabling its success”.

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- ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Ha! I didn’t see that at first. I love “fuck you so hard that we can and will put a significant dollar value on it being more humiliating”.
  
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- EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Ha!
  
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