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My favourite sentence in the article: “Those interested in acquiring Jones’ media company had submitted their final offers to federal court-appointed trustee Christopher Murray, who was tasked with picking a best bid, but not necessarily the highest.”
That suggests to me that Mr Murray had the option of choosing the funniest bid, and by gum he took it.
What's great about this is that Jones is out of a job entirely because of it.
See, if some sympathetic right wing media organization had won, Jones likely would have been hired on to keep doing exactly what he's been doing. It's what he hoped for, and likely was the motivation behind a lot of the buyers (since Infowars only really has value under its original mission if you keep Alex Jones around).
Now since The Onion bought it, they have no need for Alex Jones for whatever parody or comedy site eventually appears in January. He's out of a job. And they made a big enough offer where it didn't break the company apart, so he couldn't even snatch up some pieces.
Now will some right wing asshole hire him still? Probably. But it's without any of the things he's used to build his awful career. He's starting from scratch, and that takes away a lot of the stuff he might have brought to the table. So where ever he ends up, it'll probably be for a much smaller paycheck than he would have gotten at a rebooted Infowars.
And I think that's great.
tumblrinas need to see this
Oathkeeper
He was really putting those blorbos in situations huh
Come with me to The Court of Miracles
how come nobody raps about the master emerald anymore
The day the big Home Depot skeleton arrived.
I'm glad that people are looking at civilisations outside of Europe and recognising that they weren't at all like white colonial understandings of history would have us believe. But nonetheless, you shouldn't be trying to prove the 'superiority' of any civilisation over any other, whether that's England, the Aztecs, the Gupta Empire, or whoever else.
Because anytime you're doing that, you're always going to give some things more cultural importance than others. Was a culture that emphasised martial strength, architecture, and engineering somehow better or more worthy than a group of hunter-gatherers or pastoralists? Are you saying they're more human? I think it's important to study history without trying to sort groups of human beings based on quality, regardless of who you think was the best.
Yes! This is an irritating trend with popular history and documentaries (and some academic publications) on the Islamic golden age. I keep running into some variation of: “You may think that Europe is The Most Civilized, but actually, during the middle ages the Near East was Civilized while Europe was a provincial backwater full of illiterate zealots!”
It’s great that we’re seeing more global approaches to medieval studies and more focus on non-European achievements, but...just flipping the perspective does exactly nothing to challenge the assumptions and values of colonialism, that wealth, rationality, and military efficiency make one civilization superior to another.
All civilizations are superior.
At thriving in the land in which they were born.
(The problem with European civilization is we’re just running roughshod instead of adapting and honestly that’s a huge root of all of our ecological problems. We should not be trying to live the same way in Arizona that we did in England).
The fact that we’ve put golf courses in Arizona tells you all you need to know.
