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Pander
Oct 9, 2007

Fear is the glue that holds society together. It's what makes people suppress their worst impulses. Fear is power.

And at the end of fear, oblivion.



Holy poo poo that's a lot of salt for someone projectioning so hard.

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PJOmega
May 5, 2009

Well, that's the logical midgame for the Us vs. Them mentality RWM has cultivated so carelessly.

JehovahsWetness
Dec 9, 2005

bang that shit retarded
Alex gots tapes.

https://mobile.twitter.com/DewsNewz/status/875494310132813827

Ishin
Dec 31, 2008

~the animatronic spirit of
so many forgotten waves

I laughed for like a minute when that tweet showed up. Good going Megyn.

JehovahsWetness
Dec 9, 2005

bang that shit retarded
He's on now, he's got recordings of his phone calls w/ Megyn leading up to the interview and he said their conversations in his office @ info wars. Good lord, gently caress NBC.

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。

JehovahsWetness posted:

He's on now, he's got recordings of his phone calls w/ Megyn leading up to the interview and he said their conversations in his office @ info wars. Good lord, gently caress NBC.

#notallformerfoxnewsanchors

swampland
Oct 16, 2007

Dear Mr Cave, if you do not release the bats we will be forced to take legal action
2017 so far has just been case after case of terrible people thinking they can control other terrible but also completely unstable people and being surprised when they get burnt

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。

swampland posted:

2017 so far has just been case after case of terrible people thinking they can control other terrible but also completely unstable people and being surprised when they get burnt

It's all grifters trying to out grift each other.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

sweart gliwere posted:

I haven't paid much attention to the various self-exile social media platforms (beyond trolling Reagan book), but I thought Voat had the "advantage" of also being a gray area of FREEDOM on the darker poo poo Reddit finally cracked down on. Like questionable pornography, black market stuff, etc.

Isn't Voat on the verge of collapse because literally nobody wants their ads there?

STAC Goat
Mar 12, 2008

Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

I don't follow Jones/InfoWars stuff. What's the basic deal with this? That tweet video just seems to have Kelly saying "I'm going to be fair to you and not be some liberal hit piece." Which I agree sucks because Jones doesn't "deserve" fairness but like that was always the controversy, wasn't it? That Kelly is legitimizing Jones's poo poo with a softball interview?

And Jones is just screaming "Gotcha journalism!" to paint himself as the victim as usual? Is there anything actually new here?

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
I think what's going on is Jones has to do this to maintain credibility with his audience as an enemy of the MSM. He's got a brand and image to maintain. Good for his own ratings, too.

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。

STAC Goat posted:

I don't follow Jones/InfoWars stuff. What's the basic deal with this? That tweet video just seems to have Kelly saying "I'm going to be fair to you and not be some liberal hit piece." Which I agree sucks because Jones doesn't "deserve" fairness but like that was always the controversy, wasn't it? That Kelly is legitimizing Jones's poo poo with a softball interview?

And Jones is just screaming "Gotcha journalism!" to paint himself as the victim as usual? Is there anything actually new here?

(img timeline)

- Megyn Kelly leaves FNC in disgust because of the whole "every man outside of Shep at FNC is a loving predator" thing
- Megyn lands a sweet gig at NBC because reasons (idk, I seriously can't come up with a good reason)
- Megyn's first outing at her Super Serious NBC gig involves letting Putin walk all over her for whatever
- Megyn's second outing includes an NBC exclusive with Infowars' own Alex Jones...

which comes under a bunch of heat because he's loving Alex Jones and what do you expect from a guy who claimed that he couldn't recall basic facts about his children during a custody hearing because "I had a big bowl of chili for lunch"... except,... Alex Jones is actually kind of clever when it comes down to it because he's a professional grifter. He's basically turning the fact that NBC isn't going to air Megyn Kelly's softball-as-gently caress interview into some sort of MSM EXPOSED hit piece.

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

The Lone Badger posted:

Isn't Voat on the verge of collapse because literally nobody wants their ads there?

Yep! They're somehow shocked about this, and also shocked that their community of people too toxic for reddit and 4chan are also pretty big cheapskates when it comes to donation income.

STAC Goat
Mar 12, 2008

Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

Phone posted:

(img timeline)

- Megyn Kelly leaves FNC in disgust because of the whole "every man outside of Shep at FNC is a loving predator" thing
- Megyn lands a sweet gig at NBC because reasons (idk, I seriously can't come up with a good reason)
- Megyn's first outing at her Super Serious NBC gig involves letting Putin walk all over her for whatever
- Megyn's second outing includes an NBC exclusive with Infowars' own Alex Jones...

which comes under a bunch of heat because he's loving Alex Jones and what do you expect from a guy who claimed that he couldn't recall basic facts about his children during a custody hearing because "I had a big bowl of chili for lunch"... except,... Alex Jones is actually kind of clever when it comes down to it because he's a professional grifter. He's basically turning the fact that NBC isn't going to air Megyn Kelly's softball-as-gently caress interview into some sort of MSM EXPOSED hit piece.

No, no, I get the part where Megyn Kelly is a hack giving voice to extreme right lunatics, sane people are upset especially the ones said lunatic has attacked and dehumanized, and said extreme right lunatics are spinning it as persecution as they always do.

I was just wondering if there was anything actually there besides "all the players in this who sucked before still suck in the same ways they always did."

AnoHito
May 8, 2014

fishmech posted:

Yep! They're somehow shocked about this, and also shocked that their community of people too toxic for reddit and 4chan are also pretty big cheapskates when it comes to donation income.

They weren't just too toxic for reddit and 4chan, they were to toxic for 8chan. You know, the site that was already composed of people too toxic for reddit and 4chan.

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。

STAC Goat posted:

No, no, I get the part where Megyn Kelly is a hack giving voice to extreme right lunatics, sane people are upset especially the ones said lunatic has attacked and dehumanized, and said extreme right lunatics are spinning it as persecution as they always do.

I was just wondering if there was anything actually there besides "all the players in this who sucked before still suck in the same ways they always did."

Just the ouroboros of "no true conservative".

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
Where's the line on that? Once you're too toxic for 4chan, what gets you kicked out of somewhere else?

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

-=SEND HELP=-


Pillbug

AnoHito posted:

They weren't just too toxic for reddit and 4chan, they were to toxic for 8chan. You know, the site that was already composed of people too toxic for reddit and 4chan.

That's...a weird combination of depressing, horrifying, and confusing. Did they also really try to rely on donations? That's mostly a recipe for failure on the internet; a few people can pull it off but you need a massive audience for it and once you get rejects that were rejected by rejects of rejects you won't have a huge audience at all. The worst people on the internet are also people who don't have anything better to do with their time such as, you know, being at work so good luck getting money from them.

RedSpider
May 12, 2017


Alex Jones is the best troll in human history somebody please prove me wrong

Loel
Jun 4, 2012

"For the Emperor."

There was a terrible noise.
There was a terrible silence.



RedSpider posted:

Alex Jones is the best troll in human history somebody please prove me wrong

Putin's running up a pretty good score at this point

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

ToxicSlurpee posted:

That's...a weird combination of depressing, horrifying, and confusing. Did they also really try to rely on donations? That's mostly a recipe for failure on the internet; a few people can pull it off but you need a massive audience for it and once you get rejects that were rejected by rejects of rejects you won't have a huge audience at all. The worst people on the internet are also people who don't have anything better to do with their time such as, you know, being at work so good luck getting money from them.

They originally expected they could just do advertising. Donations reliance was a hasty plan b.

TildeATH
Oct 21, 2010

by Lowtax

RedSpider posted:

Alex Jones is the best troll in human history somebody please prove me wrong

He's won me over.

sweart gliwere
Jul 5, 2005

better to die an evil wizard,
than to live as a grand one.
Pillbug

AnoHito posted:

They weren't just too toxic for reddit and 4chan, they were to toxic for 8chan. You know, the site that was already composed of people too toxic for reddit and 4chan.

A brave coalition of racists, pedophiles, pushers, pirates and murder boner enthusiasts!

Of course these noble free speech advocates would attract a fair mix of advertisers.


Pictured: how every company wants their customer base to be viewed

paternity suitor
Aug 2, 2016

I think Alex Jones is a little bit crazy, has a sense of humor and a drinking problem, and believes about 20% of what he's saying.

EDIT: You guys should listen to the Joe Rogan podcast from February with Alex Jones. Jones gets drunk and high and absolutely goes of the deep end, and it is hilarious. For extra fun it is episode 911, lol

paternity suitor fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Jun 16, 2017

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
Speaking of getting high.

He smokes weed to "monitor" its strength.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
If anyone listens to the NPR 1A podcast, the most recent one is actually about Alex Jones, and while the guests are pretty familiar with Jones, it turns out Johnson (the host) isn't, and his continuing incredulity when people explain Jones or mention things about him is a little hilarious.

"Health supplements? He sells health supplements? You're gonna have to explain that."

boner confessor
Apr 25, 2013

by R. Guyovich

paternity suitor posted:

I think Alex Jones is a little bit crazy, has a sense of humor and a drinking problem, and believes about 20% of what he's saying.

if you're constantly playing a clown in public though at some point you become a clown

kenner116
May 15, 2009

RedSpider posted:

Alex Jones is the best troll in human history somebody please prove me wrong

Donald J. Trump

Talmonis
Jun 24, 2012
The fairy of forgiveness has removed your red text.

kenner116 posted:

Donald J. Trump

If he on the day of his impeachment pulls off his rubber mask to reveal that he is in fact, Andy Kauffman, it would seal him as the greatest performer to ever live.

RedSpider
May 12, 2017

Megyn Kelly's 'journalistic' credibility regarding trust and confidentiality might actually be destroyed by Alex loving Jones. :laffo:

Kekekela
Oct 28, 2004

RedSpider posted:

Megyn Kelly's 'journalistic' credibility regarding trust and confidentiality might actually be destroyed by Alex loving Jones. :laffo:

shittons of poetic justice going around this year

Danyull
Jan 16, 2011

I haven't watched Sean Hannity since the baseball shooting but wow he's really going hard on the "gently caress unity this was a LEFT WING ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT"

Also lol at him blaming democrat conspiracy theories when he spent so much time on Seth Rich

Crabtree
Oct 17, 2012

ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
Everybody: Lowtax in a Pickle!
Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! Pickle!

Dinosaur Gum

So this moron, who managed to weasel her way into NBC and pretend to be a regular journo, sabotaged herself and got her rear end fired when she went crawling back to the fringe to touch the poop?

So much for the right looking out for its women, eh Meg?

Idran
Jan 13, 2005
Grimey Drawer

Crabtree posted:

So this moron, who managed to weasel her way into NBC and pretend to be a regular journo, sabotaged herself and got her rear end fired when she went crawling back to the fringe to touch the poop?

So much for the right looking out for its women, eh Meg?

What do you mean? She wasn't fired. Not from NBC, at least; she was fired from hosting a Sandy Hook charity event, but that's all.

Crabtree
Oct 17, 2012

ARRRGH! Get that wallet out!
Everybody: Lowtax in a Pickle!
Pickle! Pickle! Pickle! Pickle!

Dinosaur Gum

Idran posted:

What do you mean? She wasn't fired. Not from NBC, at least; she was fired from hosting a Sandy Hook charity event, but that's all.

drat it, maybe I was just wishing too hard but I thought this leak was getting her into further trouble with NBC now?

Idran
Jan 13, 2005
Grimey Drawer

Crabtree posted:

drat it, maybe I was just wishing too hard but I thought this leak was getting her into further trouble with NBC now?

There was something going around about how they wouldn't be airing the interview after all? But either that was just a rumor or NBC went back on it. That's all I've heard about any sort of backlash from NBC against Kelly, though.

RedSpider
May 12, 2017

TildeATH posted:

He's won me over.

Me too. This is seriously the person who the MSM is freaking the gently caress out over:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na4GYyJwYjQ

How in the gently caress does this scare people instead of making their guts hurt from laughter.

try the new taco place
Jan 4, 2004

hey mister... can u play drums while I sing and play plastic guitar???
I hope NBC is intentionally shredding her "integrity" on purpose just for short term ratings and to publicly fire her. But they're probably just stupid

NikkolasKing
Apr 3, 2010



RedSpider posted:

Me too. This is seriously the person who the MSM is freaking the gently caress out over:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na4GYyJwYjQ

How in the gently caress does this scare people instead of making their guts hurt from laughter.

Because a lot of people actually believe this lunatic. Mostly people with guns and a lot of hatred for minorities.

Apparently Jones' followers till, to this day, threaten the Sandy Hook families.

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pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!

NikkolasKing posted:

Because a lot of people actually believe this lunatic. Mostly people with guns and a lot of hatred for minorities.

Apparently Jones' followers till, to this day, threaten the Sandy Hook families.

Yep that's the problem. Not Jones himself, the fools who buy it wholesale. A lady in Florida was just convicted to (I believe) 3 years in jail for threatening to kill a dad of a Sandy Hook kid.

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