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The Onion explaining a more serious reason why they bought Info Wars (lemmy.ml)

submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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(They did really buy Info Wars)

https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3law3ikwies22

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

"Tim Onion" is so clever due to it's visual resemblance of "The Onion".

"Tim" and "The" have the same visual profile (width/ height distribution and curved letters), so if you squint your eyes, they look very similar.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

It's probably a reference to when Trump called Tim Cook, Tim Apple by accident

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Ignorance, not accident.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Crap DOUBLE WAIT I'm now realizing Tim Apple wasn't a real guy's name, dammit RIP my other comment

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

No, no it made your other comment funnier

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Haha thanks for making me laugh. If it helps, it took me years to recognize that Chipotle didn’t have the chipotle flavor Tabasco simply because it tastes good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Wait a minute...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Yeah, there’s no probably about it. That’s just the joke.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I can see some merit to making CEOs change their legal last name to whatever company they're the head of.

Tim Boeing would be a lot more noticable in the public world.

To prevent private equity from doing their shell company nonsense to hide accountability, just double-barrel (n many times) all the companies together in the last name.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This is very funny applied to all businesses. "Hi, I'm John Smith and Son's and Son's, and this is my son, John Smith and Son's and Son's Jr., at least until he takes over the family business."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago

Also a reference to Trump mistakenly calling Tim Cook "Tim Apple".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago

Good thing because Tim Apple was already CEO of another company.