Alex Jones

It's certainly interesting that these people talk about their 'eye-opening' moments in pseudo-religious terms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXHY8CZYJJw

second amendment hero + enemy of the illuminati
prodigy

"you were going with the bling and uh... some of the nomenclature but... it was to attract them to the real message?"

fuck this guy with a ton of bricks

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/guns-bullying-open-carry-women-moms-texas

the whole thing is worth reading (though it will make you angry); alex jones bit begins about 1/3 of the way through.

it's impossible to listen for very long or hang out on the infowars site for very long and not realize that jones and his crew are racist evil hateful people. there's the dead astronauts silliness and the almost lefty anti-banks material but the whole outlook is still based on hatred.

i think the insane conspiracies about a race of supermen blasting off into space, pulling all the strings from a reptilian command center make it less likely, even less likely than other right wing radio guys, right wing fringe guys to be able to connect with moderate or rational but concerned people on the left or even the right. once you go down the conspiracy rabbit hole, there's no need to justify or explain theories because they all go back to a grand unified theory of globalist domination and there's no opportunity to talk about shared whatever...

i think the description of above of some jones listeners as older failed anti-everything 50something 60somethings is accurate but i get the feeling that most listeners are more likely to be 18-35 types, and unlike those described boomers really internet savvy i guess in the opposite way not unsure how to filter various texts and sources or whatever but rather completely distrusting of everything. and if you're 18-35 you grew up in a world without a like... centralized? media voice, or a trust in the media... everything is fake! what's the real truth behind this?????? and the alex jones program, which is mostly recycling stuff... 1950s anticommunist pamphlets stormfront readings of turner diaries and protocols of the elders of zion aging white male panic endoftheworld panic evangelic radio preaching adbusters antibanks... and it all gets recycled into this incoherent but new to you mix of bullshit that appeals to disaffected young men that lived through the shock of sept 11 over a decade of war propaganda and lies being exposed. so that's why you even get people running through alex jones' program and getting to "hey, if all this is true, ALEX HIMSELF MIGHT BE A REPTILIAN/mossad agent/cia operative" and they go further and further down.

True.

So much of conspiracist inclinations exhibited online or elsewhere strikes me not so much as "these people are stupid" as the kneejerk dismissal goes, but rather that "these people are victims" of either trauma or a destroyed culture or some authoritarian or marketer naturally taking advantage of them.

And this happens across the board with anybody of any subculture or political leaning.

This is balanced of course by the people who believe this stuff to justify their asshole inclinations/ideologies, but you get the idea.

i tend to think that the following these people get from the younger demographic you mention is a real testament to failures in the american educational system

i mean if you don't teach real critical thinking some folks will substitute it the shaggy, credulous form of "critical thinking" that sees conspiracies everywhere.

the part of the video in that mother jone's blog spot (or article or whatever; I can't tell the different anymore) where the guy whose daughter was killed in aurora confronts jones and his wife keeps trying to protect him is heartbreaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI63qnjXByE

Did the reptilian term come from scientology or am.I missing something?

Genius eithet way

Either*

Reptilian is a David Icke-popularized thing, I believe

icke's reptilian theory is from the early 80s.

i didn't know scientology had reptile overlords in the center of the earth. but if they did, it just proves that l ron hubbard was a globalist.

http://thedailybanter.com/2014/05/exclusive-sandy-hook-truther-comes-forward-provides-photos-of-stolen-memorial-signs-in-his-living-room/

pretty much the grossest thing

He’s a ferocious combination of ignorance and arrogance, convinced of his own intellectual elitism while in reality spouting accusations that are ludicrous at face value and for which he has no proof whatsoever anyway.

From that article but sums up Jones pretty well, too.

https://scontent-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1.0-9/10296997_300949306738394_6095746890760483662_n.jpg

pretty much the grossest thing

jfc. just, wow.

wait, is jones himself a "sandy hook truther"?

I don't know what AJ has said on the air about it, but Infowars has stuff like this:

http://www.infowars.com/school-shooting-expert-threatened-over-sandy-hook-investigation/

globalist did sandy truth to tak e out guns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO_A9JTnAfM

first guest to say "LISTEN HERE, COCKSUCKER" to alex
alex tries to shut him down after he tries to tell a story about having reefer under his left nut at the airport

went for a walk in the park today

http://i.imgur.com/vaSH6Ut.jpg

fuck this guy

still can't wrap my head around the fact that he just turned 40 this year

ha I first in '98 when I moved to Austin. mfw I found out he was 25.

oh, he sounded and looked pretty much the exact same, important detail.

That's crazy, I thought he'd been a fixture in Austin since the 80s, but I guess not. Part of that may be due to me thinking he had been in the film Slacker, but he wasn't.

he's in Waking Life

And Scanner Darkly

He was Wooderson in Dazed and Confused. No, he was.

was linklater a fan or was it more just "here is another austin weirdo" thing?

and was he as dangerous/awful back then as he is now?

Part of the reason I thought Jones was in Slacker is that there were a bunch of characters in the film with similarly wacko conspiracy theories. So I guess that type of personality was attracted Linklater even before Jones.

Jones' shtick has always been the same, he's just gained popularity over time.

Keep Earth Weird

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTTTZxQaEgw

skip to 1:55

Haha. That head's not getting any smaller, I notice.

damn young Alex looks like a henchman in a Die Hard movie

Hey thanks, now I've heard/watched Alex Jones talk about his stamina and libido.

one day he will guest on a muse album

this ended up being in the billy corgan thread but it probably belongs here....betrayal is the ether in which traitor's swim

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/mojowars-feat-al3x-j0n3s-the-d00rs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4pX53AqpUs

lol what an asshole

is alex jones capable of any level of discourse other than hoarse impotent bellowing?

wow!!!

Took me right back to the days of
http://i63.tinypic.com/dmzc6e.jpg

http://66.media.tumblr.com/df5a55b4c2de7756ac8ed37320ebe2fc/tumblr_oajty3Hxlw1rfbp51o1_400.jpg

what language is that supposed to be?

the language of TRUTH

is alex jones capable of any level of discourse other than hoarse impotent bellowing?

https://twitter.com/immolations/status/764566345459568641?s=09