The left's obsession with Alex Jones

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sued for something like a billion over that Florida school shooting,

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Tell me you know nothing about Alex Jones without telling me you know nothing about Alex Jones.

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And if the left thinks he's some kind of clown, why spend resources on buying him out?

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If he was everything you said he was or think he is, then the left wouldn't care about him.

They only go after what they perceive as a threat. If Jones was spewing lies then they wouldn't give 2 shits about him.

NPR

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Alex Jones, who spread lies about the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary that killed 26 first-graders and staffers, has dropped efforts to declare bankruptcy and agreed to liquidate his assets in order to finally start paying the nearly $1.5 billion in damages he owes the victims' families.

The relatives of the Sandy Hook victims won their defamation suits against Jones in 2021. But they have yet to see a penny since Jones and his media company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2022.

Alex Jones files for bankruptcy following $1 billion Sandy Hook verdicts
Chris Mattei, an attorney representing some of the Sandy Hook families, said Jones is on the "brink of justice" and the victims' relatives are determined to keep him accountable.

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The Onion just put in another bid (after initially winning the original bid before the judge dropped them) to take over InfoWars to make it a parody site

My bad. Frick me. The question is still on the table for the pedantic geniuses of the Poli board.

I’m starting to get exited about the new InfoWars. Yesterday Tim Heidecker was announced as the new Creative Director of Infowars should the deal go through.

I think might be helpful to see Alex Jones as not a nutjob but a guy who is playing a character (in fact, he testified to this effect in court in his custody case).

Also, I think 2 different questions are getting mixed together:

Is Alex Jones credible?
Does what he says have real-world effects?

Those aren’t the same thing. Someone can be wildly wrong and not seem credible to some and still cause harm if enough other people act on it. That’s why the Sandy Hook stuff mattered - families were harassed for years including by people he influenced over something that wasn’t true.

So I don’t think the attention is about taking him seriously as a thinker so much as dealing with the downstream effects.

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My bad. Frick me. The question is still on the table for the pedantic geniuses of the Poli board.

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Why does anyone listen to any talking head? One thing about Alex Jones that people who hate him don't want to admit, and it's not like I'm some fanboy who watches him regularly or anything, but he has been right about much more than he has been wrong about. He was calling out the Deep State and Epstein etc etc etc WAY before it was cool.