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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 140 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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...

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 39 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I mean....yeah....but also the Sandy Hook victims won their lawsuit, and from my understanding he doesn't have a show anymore. He had to give InfoWars over to The Onion.

So, yeah. You haven't heard from him in a while because he has no platform.

[–] BucketBong@p.hobo.social 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I hope he's doing what he did the last time he got taken off air, and just starts wandering the streets screaming about conspiracy theories like the homeless nutjob he was always supposed to be.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Last I was aware, The Onion’s takeover is (frustratingly) still tied up in court

[–] SirDankbud@lemmy.ca 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not anymore! They're launching July 2nd, its all over youtube.

Oh hell yeah :D

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I cant belive this is real, who hears this dude? Or is it like a meme at this point?

[–] sunsofold@lemmy.zip 18 points 4 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.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 90 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Broken clock is right twice a day, but there's a reason we don't use them to tell time shrug-outta-hecks

[–] Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

A side note, analogue clocks are still in schools, lol.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (19 children)

I mean, they're used everywhere still and aren't exactly a dated form of timekeeping or anything even if digital clocks are preferred on computers

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[–] Larry@piefed.social 53 points 5 days ago

He said he was "kind of retarded" once, so partially true.

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 46 points 5 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Also, Atrazine (a pesticide that contaminates water sources) turns the friggin frogs trans.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2842049/

[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Damn near anything makes the frogs trans, that was the whole plot of the first Jurassic Park. They used frog DNA to fill in the missing bits, and accidentally added the voluntary sex change gene, allowing the dinos to propagate.

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[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 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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[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago

The frogs are all gay now.

[–] Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Let this asshole fade into history.

[–] QueenMidna@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

Having listened to the entirety of Knowledge Fight...

No.

Not a single time.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 days ago

Frogs are fabulous around me.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (3 children)

He was kinda sorta in a way right about the frogs turning gay

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Wasn't his thing with the frogs turning gay that the government was putting something in the water turning frogs and people gay? Maybe I don't have a complete understanding of his hypothesis but how was he right about this?

[–] Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The real thing was that at one point there was so much plastic pollution in certain parts of the environment that some of the endocrine disrupting chemicals in it, like BPA (which mimics estrogen) and certain pthalates, were leaching into to water in large enough concentrations to make noticeable changes in the bodies and sex organs of animals that are extra sensitive to those things, like frogs and other amphibians. Mutations in male frogs where they displayed female traits, etc. It's a big part of the reason that 15 or 20 years ago everyone started switching to metal water bottles, and the plastic ones all advertise that they're BPA-free now. Alex Jones took that and spun it up into some grand conspiracy about the government intentionally putting chemicals in your water to feminize you and make you docile so, I dunno, you won't put up a fight when they come to round you up and put you in FEMA camps or whatever, I guess. At least that's the basic gist as I remember it. I never really paid an enormous amount of attention to Jones, so I might not be 100% on the details.

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 days ago

Yes; I believe he said at one point that there’s a sucker born every minute.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He probably got his name right.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 10 points 5 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.

[–] Nytefyre@piefed.social 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Sure.
It took somebody else editing and producing, but he definitely had something to say at least once.
This is a clip from an odd movie about death. and life. 25 years ago.
It's an Alex Jones rant. And it's full of beautiful truth.
Surprise!

Alex Jones in Richard Linklater's "Waking Life" (2001)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VERGx6VjIKA

[–] BucketBong@p.hobo.social 12 points 5 days ago (7 children)

He was right about Bohemian Grove, infact the reason we know what we do about that is because of him sneaking in to film it.

[–] loweffortname@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 days ago

People had snuck into Bohemian Grove for decades before Alex's stunt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove

The "unauthorized entry" section stretches back to 1980.

Alex Jones is a conman.

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[–] homes@piefed.world 7 points 5 days ago
[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There was one episode of Knowledge Fight where they hilighted one single prediction that was 100% accurate, but it was all in a sea of his usual BS that is way off. I don't remember what it was, though.

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago
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