The Onion’s Infowars takeover story is already a ridiculous mess, and Alex Jones is out here treating Tim Heidecker’s public comedy credits like some hidden conspiracy.
It’s funny but also kind of scary how satire gets treated like “evidence” now. Once a joke has the same distribution as news, people who want a villain will just use it that way.
Look — once it’s a screenshot bouncing around a group chat, the “satire” label might as well not exist; have you noticed any platforms actually doing a decent job preserving that context when it gets reposted? not sure on that side.
