The Onion’s offer to buy right-wing provocateur Alex Jones’ Infowars platform, as part of a liquidation to pay off his debts to the families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, is on hold until a bankruptcy judge can approve it.

Houston bankruptcy Judge Christopher M. Lopez at a hearing Monday rejected a request from Jones for an emergency temporary restraining order to stop a bankruptcy trustee or those from The Onion from taking over Infowars assets, saying it wasn’t necessary since he hasn’t entered an order allowing such a change.

Lopez said he’s ready to consider objections as early as next week from Jones, a losing bidder, or others who have concerns with the transparency of the auction or the structure of the winning bid. The decision will determine whether Jones can remain on air on the platform he’s been broadcasting on for roughly 25 years.

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    4 days ago

    We can make that happen. But it requires the hardest thing of all; unity and availability. Though, with things heating up the globe over availability won’t be a problem soon.

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      How can we stop it from happening? Chain ourselves to the door of Infowars?

      Anything we can do will take decades to change any of this shit. And we don’t have decades until the ecosystem collapses and we all starve.

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        3 days ago

        I meant the timeline, we can change it still. Things are about to nosedive. Not saying society will survive, but maybe humans won’t die out. Infowars sale is already toast the judge is just deciding how to gank the onion. But there is still time to save things, not everything, but the main stream scientific consensus is still that there is time to mitigate damage, best of luck these next five years. Thats probably all we’ve got and its barely a billionth of a heartbeat of life’s history