He was also a big Chomsky fan, and tried to convince me that all the major networks conspired to keep Chomsky off the airwaves because he spoke the unvarnished TRUTH, rather than him being a boring old blowhard
Plenty of boring old blowhards on the US news in the 90's iirc. Don't need a conspiracy to see why journalists wouldn't be too enthusiastic about inviting a dude over who consistently highlights what a bad job they're doing tho.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 28 October 2022 09:51 (one year ago) link
the karmic fissure section was effective not least bcz the spaker (andy) is ordinarily the show's stand-out sardonic shitposter, viz the most likely to announce that something very bad is very good merely bcz it entertains him and let you unravel the layers (in fact he did just this at the start) -- this ep he had flu and was dosed up on like sudafed and just let the argument roll on flawlessly out thru cringe to content
― mark s, Friday, 28 October 2022 09:56 (one year ago) link
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company were ordered Thursday to pay an extra $473 million to victims' families and an FBI agent for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax, adding to a nearly $1 billion jury verdict issued last month. https://t.co/WsQJrMDyw1— The Associated Press (@AP) November 10, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 November 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
I hope for his sake this is the end of it, because I feel like the next judge Alex Jones goes up before is gonna rule that any person who sees him on the street can immediately demand — and receive — all the money in Jones's wallet, and his shoes.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 10 November 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
That sounds perfectly fair to me. I feel like I’m owed damages just from having to live in the same dimension as that piece of shit.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 10 November 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
one useful thing to do in this dimension is look at a clock! if you're in a dream, time won't work, so it's a way to potentially snap out of this one
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 10 November 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
Did you learn that from my dream? recently on ILX Dreams...
― peace, man, Friday, 11 November 2022 11:56 (one year ago) link
haha, peace, i'd never seen that! that's pretty incredible! i could see being in someone else's dream involving air conditioning because i've had some intense psychological experiences involving un-installing a window AC unit and accidentally letting it come crashing down from the second floor (no one was injured!). the landlord was so kind and understanding about it that i just moved on -- it makes sense that somewhere in the dream world i'm still dealing with air conditioners. glad i had your help in your dream!
but no, the clock thing i mentioned in the post above was something mentioned in Waking Life -- not during the segment with Alex Jones, but elsewhere.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
jesus I haven't seen Waking Life since it came out and did not realize Alex Jones was in that
― akm, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
yeah, a scanner darkly, too. there's been some brief discussion upthread. kinda weird of linklater but i guess in jones' earlier days he could be seen more as a ...harmless angry ranting guy...rather than a guy who could be so fucking wrong, for so long, that he was successfully sued for a couple billion dollars or whatever he's up to now, simply for being so fucking wrong and so loud about it
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
he is one of the most persistent, loud, angry, and wrong voices in all of human history. it's kind of incredible
― Karl Malone, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
the ultimate guy who both smelt it and dealt it
He had a reputation as local wacky crank here in Austin for a long time
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 11 November 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
like if Art Bell transformed into Goebbels
― akm, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
files for personal bankruptcy, "the Infowars host has between $1m and $10m of assets and between $1bn and $10bn of debt."https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63837309
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 2 December 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
It's kind of nuts to me that someone could be worth 10 million dollars and file for bankruptcy. What does bankruptcy filing really do other than protect him from debtors? Does that include the judgments against him? I assume so. If a prosecutor had proof he reallocated his assets to fake bankruptcy, is that fraud?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 December 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
wake me up when they take away his fucking microphones, cameras, and internet access
― sleeve, Friday, 2 December 2022 21:14 (one year ago) link
^^^
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 2 December 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
god we need some good vandals to just show up and disrupt every broadcast
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 2 December 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
otmfm as long as he still has that outlet to spread his hate speech, this bankruptcy is fucking meaningless
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 2 December 2022 21:33 (one year ago) link
Hmmmm
Some news: Tomorrow SPLC will publish Part 1 of a five part series into the text messages found on Alex Jones's phone. Investigation by me and @MeganSquire0. I think this is the first story I've ever worked on where my editor stuck a content warning on top of it.— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) February 1, 2023
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 03:43 (one year ago) link
Alex Jones should be sentenced to subsisting entirely on his snake oil supplements.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 13:26 (one year ago) link
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/02/01/infowars-alex-jones-says-he-lives-hell-texts-show
Jones and Enlow’s tracking efforts seem to take place on days that Jones himself is conducting an affair. Jones contacts Enlow to monitor Erika Wulff Jones on days when he is also in touch with a woman named “Pat Johnson,” which is the alias he entered into his phone to represent an Austin-based married woman with whom he exchanges texts of an intimate nature. (As an example, Jones texted Pat Johnson on the morning of May 11, 2020, requesting “a sucky,” apparently asking her to give him oral sex.)
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Thursday, 2 February 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
That DOES require a content warning. I feel like I’ve read a page from the Necronomicon now.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 February 2023 14:55 (one year ago) link
APOLS
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Thursday, 2 February 2023 15:18 (one year ago) link
Alex Jones to Timothy Fruge, 11:32.12 a.m.:Please bring vodka to con room
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 2 February 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
Alex Jones to Timothy Fruge 2:29.58 p.m.:Please tell D to get me a bottle of vodka out of his safe and put in my office now
Alex Jones to Erika Wulff Jones, 12:03.50 a.m.:I can’t believe you wore the wedding ring to fuck hon
Alex Jones to Erika Wulff Jones, 12:03.52 a.m.:Him
Alex Jones to Erika Wulff Jones, 12:04.08 a.m.:I am okay with it just don’t ware it anymore
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 2 February 2023 15:25 (one year ago) link
Oh fun.
Does anyone but me remember the story of Bill O'Reilly's wonderfully clumsy attempt to seduce a subordinate, wherein he speaks of her using a "felafel" in the shower, by which he apparently meant a "loofah"?
Or maybe there are people who rub themselves with fried chick peas. I don't wish to kink-shame.
― forbidden fruit salad (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 February 2023 15:40 (one year ago) link
don't think I ever got over "I love you, alive girl"
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:12 (one year ago) link
"So much better than the dead kind."
― forbidden fruit salad (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
Oh but back to Jones for a sec
And nothing can stop itIt seamsIt’s like gravityA black hole (hole emoji)
^ primo fake Metallica lyrics
(hole emoji)
― forbidden fruit salad (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:19 (one year ago) link
I wouldn't expect one of the main job roles of a personal trainer to be "guy who brings me vodka on demand at 9am" but here we are
― mh, Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:41 (one year ago) link
it's really, really tough to read through that page. i only got about a 1/3 of the way down. what a complete scumbag, and every single person who is involved with him.
on a much less important note his texting style is so annoying
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link
hay
their so wrong about this
media hippocrits
wrong about everything so soick of it
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link
it seams
― forbidden fruit salad (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:53 (one year ago) link
there ought to be a circle of hell reserved for people who break up a single sentence into four separate texts
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 February 2023 16:58 (one year ago) link
You hate is
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 2 February 2023 17:12 (one year ago) link
this is just to say
a sucky
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 February 2023 17:20 (one year ago) link
I glanced at this, but I can't even hateread this guy. Fuck him forever.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 2 February 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
It gives the impression his world could not be more miserable than it already is. But I entirely support the world at large doing its very best to see if it's not somehow possible.
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Friday, 3 February 2023 09:03 (one year ago) link
^Well said.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 3 February 2023 12:25 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/19/alex-jones-money-concealment-sandy-hook-families-award
― groovypanda, Monday, 20 March 2023 08:57 (one year ago) link
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreieyu4xecyq5pn4dyqhohnli4kkivsgwszivyzzmzriqjyml4poj2e@jpeg
― Is he an evil man who makes chocolate or is the chocolate itself evil? (stevie), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:26 (two months ago) link
Yowza
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:39 (two months ago) link
If eating your leftist ass is wrong, I don't want to be right.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:45 (two months ago) link
How does it taste, Alex?
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:47 (two months ago) link
Like corn on the cob
― cozen itt (wins), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 23:48 (two months ago) link
That picture is like twenty years old as well, he's greyer than a Bergman film now
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 14 March 2024 00:00 (two months ago) link
He looks younger because of all the supplements.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 March 2024 00:00 (two months ago) link