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.
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