alex jones

[Vegita-San]

so, with this nut trending alot lately, can someone explain to me just what he said about the shooting that got him into so much trouble?

I am also not sure why nick fuentes is a thing or who he is.. trying to stay informed ;)

[Andrew NDB]

so, with this nut trending alot lately, can someone explain to me just what he said about the shooting that got him into so much trouble?

Basically there was a grand total of 20 minutes worth of him being nutty in a single podcast (or something) a few years ago where he surmised that the kids/parents were complicit in some kind of acting job, then never brought it up again and even repeatedly apologized about it. Folks of a certain persuasion dug it up out of the garbage can like raccoons as if it was breaking news and cancelled him across all social media platforms literally overnight.

[IMJ]

Yeah. It's really that simple. Alex Jones took a lifetime of pretty deep and interesting observations about political culture - some of which may have been true given some of his recorded escapades (like weirdness at the Bohemian Grove - I mean the guy got it on tape).

But then it made him money, gave him a bit of a platform and he ran with it. He lost sight of his personal thesis, his real goals for uncovering weird political behaviors and that moment about the shootings was one of several where I think he brainlocked and went in way too deep.

Basically he cycled himself up and he got pinched. I think the payouts he was ordered to give were outlandish - he didn't kill anyone, but as with all things in our society nowadays, vengeance for bent-up anger can now be dished out to anyone yielding even a modicum of attention over a topic. The payouts that were court-ordered were devastating as if Alex Jones killed those kids.

Alex Jones should be made to pay out given his platform, but in clown world that payout was equivalent to making families whole as if he killed their kids.

[Coola Yagami]

Yeah. It's really that simple. Alex Jones took a lifetime of pretty deep and interesting observations about political culture - some of which may have been true given some of his recorded escapades (like weirdness at the Bohemian Grove - I mean the guy got it on tape).

But then it made him money, gave him a bit of a platform and he ran with it. He lost sight of his personal thesis, his real goals for uncovering weird political behaviors and that moment about the shootings was one of several where I think he brainlocked and went in way too deep.

Basically he cycled himself up and he got pinched. I think the payouts he was ordered to give were outlandish - he didn't kill anyone, but as with all things in our society nowadays, vengeance for bent-up anger can now be dished out to anyone yielding even a modicum of attention over a topic. The payouts that were court-ordered were devastating as if Alex Jones killed those kids.

Alex Jones should be made to pay out given his platform, but in clown world that payout was equivalent to making families whole as if he killed their kids.

I'm assuming the shooter killed himself or was shot down at the end of everything, since that's how these school shootings usually play out. I guess they couldn't get any sort of money out of that so since Alex opened his big mouth, that was their shot to get some sort of compensation.

[The Deadman]

Basically there was a grand total of 20 minutes worth of him being nutty in a single podcast (or something) a few years ago where he surmised that the kids/parents were complicit in some kind of acting job, then never brought it up again and even repeatedly apologized about it. Folks of a certain persuasion dug it up out of the garbage can like raccoons as if it was breaking news and cancelled him across all social media platforms literally overnight.

Some kind of acting job? He literally said the kids werent dead and the parents were crisis actors. Then kept repeating it. For years. He only recently apologized for it cause he was on trial and admitted he was an actor himself. Just admit you're an Infowars fan already.

[Andrew NDB]

Then kept repeating it. For years.

Apparently that was debunked and it was just for a show, once, many years ago. There was no repeating and there was no "for years." I did listen to him go on Steven Crowder's show maybe 2, 3 months ago saying all about that and I haven't seen anyone prove otherwise since. Which makes me suspect that's exactly the case.

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This one, I believe. Skip to a little after the 45 minute mark for the interview.

Just admit you're an Infowars fan already.

Very funny.

[IMJ]

Some kind of acting job? He literally said the kids werent dead and the parents were crisis actors. Then kept repeating it. For years. He only recently apologized for it cause he was on trial and admitted he was an actor himself.

Agree with you here.... and he did say "crisis actors" multiple times.

Just admit you're an Infowars fan already.

There are a lot of reasons that Andrew could be taking the position he did that have nothing to do with him being some kind of die-hard conspiracy theorist or "evil right wing thinker". He could be stating the situation from a position of disdain over societies witch-hunt-scrutiny for public villains. He could be granularizing Jones' nonsense because although Jones misspoke maybe Jones' nonsense is second-seat to the nonsense that got him crucified.

There's more potential reasons, but none of them call for you trying to bottleneck the guy into whatever class is easiest for you to digest. And that, ladies and gentlemen, has been the actual source of problems on the boards for a long time now. People with the mental-filing of others using the most-base, 3rd grade, mental filing apparatus. "You're a Trump supporter so you're racist!" That's not contiguously connected logic, but rather just what simps, children, and what I call the peasant-thinker does, man.

I mean look how far gone that is for Christ sake. Deadman, you juts flung the words "Just admit you're an InfoWars fan already!" as if that innocuous nonsense carries some kind of criminal weight behind it. Nobody is going to sit here and tell me that isn't like the 5th grade school yard mentality of accusation. That is what I've had an issue with on these forums and with some of these people. That right there.

I don't give a $#!( if you sit around and draw pictures of dicks as a grown man, or if you like people in furry costumes, don't give a **** if you actually work retail and are stuck in life - all I care about is the witch-hunting as if you are informed about anything and that anyone feels they are due their vengeance upon someone.

[Vegita-San]

So, if it's really been confirmed that he only mentioned it once, because his show was all about exposing the weirdness in the stories of today...yeah, what the left is trying to do is F'ed up.

But, if he did it multiple times and used it to enrich his fame, that's where I Say he gets all the angst he deserves...

The way the media goes on, you'd think it was the latter.

[IMJ]

So, if it's really been confirmed that he only mentioned it once, because his show was all about exposing the weirdness in the stories of today...yeah, what the left is trying to do is F'ed up.

But, if he did it multiple times and used it to enrich his fame, that's where I Say he gets all the angst he deserves...

The way the media goes on, you'd think it was the latter.

I'm fairly certain that he said with ease and on a few occasions that the families were "crisis actors". Unless of course he said it once and then was telling the story of what was said and wasn't really reaffirming it again.

I think that kind of stuff is best for the real courts were judges are informed and well-studied as to the nuance instead of the court of public opinion. He probably should've paid money - but I'll say it to the end - what they handed him in turn of payout was misplaced vengeance, 100%.

[Cowabung-Gal]

With everyone suing him out of his income, there’s no point in Elon letting him back on Twitter now: he wouldn’t even be able to afford the $8 per month.

[CyberCubed]

Criminals will pay for their crimes.