• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    28 days ago

    There’s a cabal of rich people, some of them potentially pedophiles who are pulling the strings in society… except many of them are his friends and benefactors, and he’s been awfully quiet since the Epstein files got partially released…

  • Asidonhopo@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    His infamous statement “chemicals in the water that turn the freaking frogs gay” may have been a corruption of the discovery that sewage runoff was feminizing fish because of the estradiol in urine from women on birth control, and other endocrine disrupting chemicals newly found in rivers from human sources.

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      27 days ago

      Yeah, I’ve had some friends in aquaculture and it’s a huge deal and has been for a long time. The bleaching of paper causes it too. He just went on a rant and said it all wrong.

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      26 days ago

      And this almost certainly affects people as well, just that the studies to prove it would also double as a textbook of ethical failures.

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    27 days ago

    In the same way a lot of bullshitters are. He’d say 105 things a week, many of them being mutually exclusive, and then when one of the random guesses happened to have turned out to be true, he’d crow and preen to say he was right and play a clip editing out the parts where he’d said all the other nonsense.

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    28 days ago

    No he wasn’t. He’s a fucking shit-stirring asshole who believed for the longest time until the courts had to twist his arm about it to be convinced, that actual children did not die during a shooting massacre. He deserves to have his platform shut down and given to a satire company, he deserves to be drained of all of his financial resources.

    And before anyone says “his voice is being silenced! what about his first amendment rights?!”. All that his voice and platform has done, is just damage and warp the minds of anyone who so much gave him honest attention. Just so that they too, could be walking mouthpieces for him. I mean that’s partially why we’re dealing with this war now over misinformation, it is partly because of this prick.

    If there’s anyone whose voice I wouldn’t cry about being silenced forever, its this clown. If Alex Jones has actually proven anything at all, is to how gullible and devoid of intelligence people are to have faithfully followed everything he’s said and done while spinning it all like as if he’s satire. Too bad this ‘satire’ was something people actually believed in and still believe in.

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      27 days ago

      No he wasn’t.

      Bohemian Grove turned out to be very much a real thing.

      You don’t need to like or agree with him, but twisting the reality isn’t helpful. The question wasn’t what you think of him. That’s a subjective question. Whether he was right about anything is an objective one.

      Nobody here is defending anything he has said or done so I have no clue where that rambling is coming from.

  • dhork@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    If Alex Jones told me it was sunny out I would bring my umbrella.

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    27 days ago

    Most conspiracy theories get very close to the truth until they make a hard right turn into “I made it the fuck up” village.

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    28 days ago

    People will sit through 10 minutes of ads between 30 seconds of screaming. I didn’t think they would but 🤷

  • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip
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    27 days ago

    He did go undercover in the 90s or early 2000s (its been awhile) and record part of the Bohemian Grove stuff.

    I thought that was pretty cool. Sadly never did anything like that again though.