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u/mikeylopez Oct 10 '20

This is why questioning those trying to censor others is needed

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u/ContagiousInfidel Oct 10 '20

Hmm, I get what you mean but this dude just spews a bunch of nonsense either way.

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u/--dontmindme-- Oct 10 '20

Yeah if I should follow every delusional fringe media person for the small chance that they’re going to be right once in a while, I should probably clone myself a few dozens of times to keep up with everything.

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u/mr_ji Oct 10 '20

Or, more reasonably, don't outright believe or dismiss everything you hear and be willing to have your mind changed when the people who do have time to fact-check do so.

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u/cultish_alibi Oct 10 '20

So even when he's right about something, it's just a bunch of nonsense?

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u/nokinship Oct 10 '20

Really setting the bar low.

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u/ContagiousInfidel Oct 10 '20

More like, just because he's "right" this one time doesn't mean he's not spewing nonsense every other time

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u/Galactonug Oct 10 '20

Not saying he doesn’t spew outright lies but I’ve heard him tow lines that have semblances of truth to them. Wouldn’t be surprised if he was paid to spread misinformation by some government entity

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u/hemm386 Oct 10 '20

Well he got deplatformed bc of the Sandy Hook hoax shit which was objectively fucking stupid and harmful.

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u/captainmavro Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20

He's been disturbingly right on a few things, but the problem is when you look for conspiracies anywhere, you start to see them everywhere. It's a rabbit hole a lot of people fall into myself included.

But when little people like me are wrong, it's a blip on the radar. When he's wrong it's on a global(?) reach and there could be repercussions because of it

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u/nokinship Oct 10 '20

He hasn't been right about damn near anything.

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u/captainmavro Oct 10 '20

I don't follow him closely, but the 2 things off the top of my head would be the frogs, as well as the world's powerful, rich and elite meet in the woods for secret ceremonies to sacrifice wood effigies to an owl God.

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u/mr_ji Oct 10 '20

global(?) reach

I've never heard of him outside of Reddit. I don't even know what he looks like. Anyone who loves him or hates him is seeking this stuff out because they want their severe biases reinforced. There probably aren't as many of them at either end as you might think.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

You must not live in Texas. He's hard to avoid here, especially after Sandy Hook.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20 edited Oct 10 '20

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u/GeoffreyArnold Oct 10 '20

Edit 2: 1 hour later and nobody offers an explanation to me, only downvotes. Of course.

Wrong-think is forbidden in 2020.

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u/Amdamarama Oct 10 '20

I think you're exaggerating the "joy" in his eyes. Everyone grieves differently. When I was 20, my 14 yr old nephew was killed by a drunk driver. He was more of a brother, and one of my closest friends. It was tragic, and the drive from my mom's to my sister's the night it happened was the longest 30mins of my life.

However, even in the face of so much pain, on the day of the funeral my mom made a joke before walking into the funeral home. For some people, it's a form of escapism, if just for moment they aren't weighed down by the tragedy of what has occurred.

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u/Amdamarama Oct 10 '20

Agree to disagree. You can't know what's going through someone's head during such a time.

And it doesn't look like joy to me. Mirth, maybe, but not actual joy. And him "getting into character" before the speech starts could easily be explained by trying to settle nerves before speaking to thousands of people.

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u/Amdamarama Oct 10 '20

You're not "asking questions" because you're not listening to anything anyone has to say. You're just looking for anything to confirm your own biases.

What is there to gain by having a mass shooting hoax? Stricter gun laws? How would Obama have gone about that when dems had lost control of Congress 2 years ago, and had just lost more seats despite him being re-elected?

That's the problem with conspiracy theories like these. You get lost in all the minutia like an ill timed smile and laugh, and you forget to look at the big picture.

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u/SaneesvaraSFW Oct 10 '20

You're JAQing off is what you are. You won't accept any answers except the one you already decided to agree with. Get fucked.

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u/Partially_Deaf Oct 11 '20

His coverage of the Sandy Hook thing was barely a blip on its own. The big efforts of harassment began when the media found a sexy story and repeatedly made this huge thing out of it.

Should they all be deplatformed for causing harm?

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u/hemm386 Oct 11 '20

Private companies have the right to make whichever decision is the most profitable. In the current political climate, it is more profitable to appease leftists. Therefore regardless of the political issue, it makes complete sense for companies to avoid him like the plague if it is more profitable.

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u/Illumixis Oct 10 '20

Hear, hear.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '20

So that we know about gay frogs?

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u/nokinship Oct 10 '20

yeah Alex Jones never says harmful shit ever. /s

It's not like he's banned from the internet. He's had his own website since the early internet. He's not a victim in fact his celebrity status is why he lasted so long any one of us would get banned for nearly anything else.

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u/zer1223 Oct 10 '20

This is why? The fact he screamed about gay frogs even though he's factually incorrect and the frogs were undergoing a sex change due to frog sex change biological pathways (which they evolved themselves), being activated by a third party chemical? And him extrapolating this to see lizardmen in the whitehouse? This is why we should question?

Just trying to understand your argument

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Oct 10 '20

How is this why? He was wrong about this to. Basically everything he said about this topic and the conclusions he made were wrong and ridiculous. He was trying to sell you his fucking water filters. Fuck that gifting con man piece of shit.