• FourThirteen@lemmy.world
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    Hi, I don’t feel like I know what’s going on. Can someone explain the post? Why is Alex Jones doing this? Everything feels like a fever dream.

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    Between 2012 and 2014, me and my skeptic friends made a joke conspiracy theory, that claims conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones are paid agents by an actual conspiracy to make conspiracy theories look bad, so they won’t be found out, or at least the wrong target will be hated by the masses. I’m more and more sure, that it might been something real.

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      There are a few pentagon-employed UFO disinfo agents who were either identified or simply admitted it. The drama definitely wouldn’t have ended there.

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      That’s pretty much what AJ & Co. say every time someone on their side behaves so ridiculously that even they cannot rally behind them.

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      I’m pretty sure corporate conglomerates and intelligence agencies fund or otherwise aid conspiracy nuts in order to construct cover for real conspiracies.

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      made

      Made?

      Easily derived. So easy, isn’t it self evident?

      joke

      Joke?

      It’s not funny… We are in a lot of trouble.

      But I guess it’s true what they say… the difference between comedy and tragedy is distance. Maybe I’ve just been too close to world issues too long.

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              Well yeah, it’s always like that I think, someone probably complained about it in cuneiform or hieroglyphs.

              A large percentage of any generation is going to put the mortgage and horse/camel/SUV first. There’s no character there. Generations are characterized by the noisy flashy people and stereotypes, not the ‘normies’, and there are a lot of genX sarcastic half motivated folks floating around still. The ones without mortgages in particular.

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    A lot of the conspiracy podcast bros that thought the Clinton’s ran an underground pedophiles ring in some random pizza shop are really fuckin quiet about the epstein files. They sound like a church mouse in a fuckin library.

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      considering it was related to the epstein files, they were projecting. more than likely the conspiracy started with krompomat from RU, since they wouldve had evidence from epstein by that time in '16.

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      Oh, really? That’s peculiar. Got any examples?

      Reminds me of various lefty anarchist activists who did not partake of a “leftlockdownsceptics” perspective (the eponymous website since renamed “therealleft”), and insisted on obedience, showing their true colours.

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        Got any examples?

        …The OP?

        I don’t know a thing about that, but “lefty lockdown skeptics” sound like nuts too, so IDK where you’re going with that.

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          I think they are accusing anarchists who supported the lockdown as being hypocritical, seemingly taking the perspective that anarchism is purely about pathological resistance to government authority without nuance or consideration.

          I can’t be 100% sure as it’s the comment is not far off being a word salad.

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        Oh, really? That’s peculiar. Got any examples?

        Yes, you and your poor attempt to steer the conversation from the Epstein files.

        edit: orthography

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          attempt to steer the conversation from the Epstein files.

          wat

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          So no more examples?

          A lot of the conspiracy podcast bros

          For sure sounded plural.

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            Are you basically trying to explain that only Alex Jones made pedo ring pizza gate claims…? Why? The records are public. We all got better stuff to do. Get with some normal brain wave and ride that for a while and forget about the snowflake crusade. It’s already won. They weren’t pussies, but the old hyper capitalist autocracy fools were frailer than we ever experienced before publicly as humans ever. It was projection. We have already settled the matter and are moving on with that fact in the back pocket. It cannot be helped because now it’s already settled. It’s the arch-fools errands of fool’s errands to debate that idiotic claim.

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              Are you basically trying to explain that only Alex Jones made pedo ring pizza gate claims…?

              No.

              I do not comprehend how you could have possibly picked up that interpretation.

              Was not saying anything about that at all.

              I merely asked for some of the examples of the many asserted to have fallen quiet about Epstein since pointing out such stuff.

              I do not know how you managed to fit so much else to read between the lines. I didn’t put anything between the lines.

              The records are public. We all got better stuff to do.

              o_O

              But you could write a fat paragraph faster than drop a couple names or so?

              Does not bode well for credulity and credibility. idk why the greater burden’s being put on me to search for something I don’t have the search terms for, when others supposedly have the names…

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    The conspiracy reason is he’s owned by biggly now so he can’t go agaisnt trump

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      Why would he go against Trump? He has no reason to want to lose his core audience of Trump cultists.

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        It’s more that he couldn’t if he wanted to but it’s also a conspiracy about alex jones so it doesn’t need to make any sense

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        If he was smart he would see trump isn’t going to be around forever and once he’s gone he has a whole slew of obviously fake principles he betrayed. I mean, he is currently pretending trump being a pedophile isn’t obviously true and he’s making every excuse for trump no matter what happens. That’s a short sighted strategy imo

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      The American empire had that man killed because he was worth way more as an idea than as his sorry, pathetic self (either that or his death was extremely convenient, which is possible TBF), and I wouldn’t want the American Western supremacists to get any more reasons to be who they are…

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      I’ve been keeping up to date wrt AJ only because of those 2 guys. The analyses are always precise yet entertaining.

      They also make the point made by OOP in every episode. It was never about freedom or speaking truth to power. It was always about hating on others.

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        The is latest episode is a hoot. I’ve always appreciated the way the Dan brings it back over and over again to how AJ has turned his back on everything that made him who he was.

        Listening over time has really showed me how mutable the beliefs of his ilk can be. How utterly self-serving every claim.

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      Oh darn. And she was onto such important issues too… /s

      Just goes to show, in a sea of misinformation, everybody’s a shill.

      • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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        this just in, digit at lemmy dot wtf shills for less misinformed misinformations and more dyspeptic disinformation. also i hear they have not been sharing their cheese.

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          Got a counter argument or refutation to my characterisation, or curiosity to clarify to what I refer? Or just a whimsical character assassination (so bizarre I’m not sure if meant to be taken seriously, or a mockery of those who would attempt to besmirch anyone critical of suspected managed opposition who attempt to distract with divisive trivialities like a magikian)?