Alex Jones must pay $965 million in damages to numerous families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting for falsely claiming they were actors who faked the tragedy, a Connecticut jury said on Wednesday, marking the second multimillion-dollar verdict against the conspiracy theorist in just over two months.
make him take a loan out for that shit hehehe :sicko-fem:
His company is bankrupt too which I didn't know. How in the fuck did this guy ever get an audience? The few times I listened to him back in my reactionary chud days I had to turn it off because it was so :jesse-wtf:
:cia: and :lord-bezos-amused:
I used to get so upset when he'd yell and scream about "I HAVE THE DOCUMENTS!" then show them asshole, prove to me the world is run by psychic lizardmen vampires sucking the souls out of mankind on a colony prison planet! :ooooooooooooooh:
:marx-hi: ahem… may I introduce you to a manifesto?
Broken clock moment but there is this clip of him from a movie at least mentioning about corporate slavery and the false dichotomy between liberal and conservatives. I'm not defending Jones but at least when he was young and less well known he was a bit more coherent. Makes me wonder how much of his shit's an act for the piggies versus how much he truly believes. Also worth mentioning he infiltrated Bohemian Grove.
Eh, this clip makes me think he was never coherent (maybe he was.....slightly more coherent? But still incoherent). He cares about freedom, he cares about dignity, forget about the greed, the hate, they're using it to control us, should not submit to dehumanization, blah blah blah
There's nothing of substance in there. Heck, take the labels off: take away liberalism, conservatism, republican, democrat; just tell us what you're actually on about, tell us specifically what you want fixed. This guy was never Parenti, Chomsky or that (South? Central?) American lady (who I'm sorry to say I don't know her name; but she spoke out against American Imperialism and brought up a Times article that found that 70% of Americans at the start of the Iraq war believed Iraq was involved in 9/11).
He's just angry (or is putting on a performance of it) and it sounds to me like he doesn't even really know why he's angry. The sad thing is, a guy who's known for being on the left yelling exactly the same words would be put on the spot to specify exactly what he's talking about, but conservatives not only aren't but don't expect to be.
As a gigalib who's listened to way too much Knowledge Fight, the short answer is Alex Jones is 1000% a grifter cosplaying as part of the militia psychos that produced OKC and Malheur. Basically the only thing he's ever been consistent on is 2A absolutism, otherwise he'll flip on literally anything if it helps make the audience feel besieged and sell them dick pills and dehydrated potatoes.
From some people who knew him back in the Austin access television days, Alex Jones is 100% playing a character.
I wonder how much of the original man is left after being in character for so long. Not to say he wasn't always a shitbag
That's what always bugged me about his show, the rants never really had much purpose, but they sure do fire up his audience.
When he says any of that shit, what he means is "the christian militia freaks are the good guys"
He's never been sane or correct
I honestly think he became a :cia: asset to spread limited hangouts but coated in enough shit to discredit anyone talking about anything like that
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I was actually an Alex Jones fan back in high school. To someone with very little political knowledge what he says is awfully convincing. "There's a small group of powerful people pulling the strings" essentially.
Once I started fearing that the black helicopters were going to abduct me - a high school student - for reading InfoWars, and once one-too-many of his "predictions" of when martial law was going to be implemented never materialised, I took a step back and reflected that maybe this fear-mongering dipshit was actually not telling the truth.
Maybe his audience was boomers who're easy to grift and listen to talk radio, idk :shrug-outta-hecks:
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His company isn't bankrupt. They've filed and are attempting to reorganize but he's being a removed just like he was during discovery of the defamation trials so it isn't going well and he is very likely attempting to hide truckloads of cash
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Ahh I used an impolite slur for a particular piece of anatomy and I forgot it autoremoves. Fair enough
I don't know how anyone could listen to him unironically.
He supposedly has a ton stashed away in crypto, which... definitely tracks. How he hopes to convert that into cash right now is anyone's guess. It's going to be fun to watch.
Iirc he got a donation of Bitcoin worth about 8mill recently. This was just before the crash but still he probably has 2 million in Bitcoin from just that stashed away on a usb.
The sad fact is that no matter what happens he will likely be able to afford a life better than most of the victim will know