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Oiled and Ready
Oct 11, 2004

He wished it could be as respectable and orthodox as spying. But somehow in his hands the traditional tools and attitudes were always employed toward mean ends: cloak for a laundry sack, dagger to peel potatoes, dossiers to fill up dead Sunday afternoons ...

Homework Explainer posted:

uh, my good friend who got doxxed and harassed by his shitbird followers after counter-protesting him might beg to differ

So

1 your friend put in the effort to counterprotest Alex loving Jones

And 2 you blame him for what his "followers" did

Do you also blame Salinger for Lennon's death?

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Crowsbeak
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth
Lipstick Apathy
I prefer Ghost on TCR.

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

https://vine.co/v/e9KPWaXLuiX

Aschlafly
Jan 5, 2004

I identify as smart.
(But that doesn't make it so...)

Oiled and Ready posted:

So

1 your friend put in the effort to counterprotest Alex loving Jones

And 2 you blame him for what his "followers" did

Do you also blame Salinger for Lennon's death?

It's almost as though words have consequences

Oiled and Ready
Oct 11, 2004

He wished it could be as respectable and orthodox as spying. But somehow in his hands the traditional tools and attitudes were always employed toward mean ends: cloak for a laundry sack, dagger to peel potatoes, dossiers to fill up dead Sunday afternoons ...

Aschlafly posted:

It's almost as though words have consequences

Did Alex ask them, even in a sly way, to gently caress with him? If he did, I agree. Otherwise Alex had nothing to do with any doxxing. If we set the standard at that level anyone with fans is guilty of what their fans do to protesters. Alex uses less violent rhetoric than 3/4 of standard rightwing conservative radio hosts.

Rawr Dinosaur
Feb 10, 2012
"Alex Jones breaks down how marijuana has become more and more potent over the years and how it could be used as a tool of the globalists."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkET3ij3iT4

:420:

Oiled and Ready
Oct 11, 2004

He wished it could be as respectable and orthodox as spying. But somehow in his hands the traditional tools and attitudes were always employed toward mean ends: cloak for a laundry sack, dagger to peel potatoes, dossiers to fill up dead Sunday afternoons ...

Rawr Dinosaur posted:

"Alex Jones breaks down how marijuana has become more and more potent over the years and how it could be used as a tool of the globalists."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkET3ij3iT4

:420:

Marijuana is a tool of the globalists for easy incarceration of minorities, but I doubt that's what he explains here

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

Oiled and Ready posted:

Marijuana is a tool of the globalists for easy incarceration of minorities, but I doubt that's what he explains here

going to wager a guess that increased potency leads to sedation of the masses

Solvent
Jan 24, 2013

by Hand Knit

He reminds me of a toddler here. He throws his fit, then at the end he's sad and almost pouting. Poor Awex, last of the cavemen.

Oiled and Ready posted:

Did Alex ask them, even in a sly way, to gently caress with him? If he did, I agree. Otherwise Alex had nothing to do with any doxxing. If we set the standard at that level anyone with fans is guilty of what their fans do to protesters. Alex uses less violent rhetoric than 3/4 of standard rightwing conservative radio hosts.

I'm an Illuminati reptile, and the Bohemian Grove in Santa Rosa, where my long time friend worked for years, is a hotbed of devil worship focused on a loving stupid owl statue.

Buy some more pills.

Oiled and Ready
Oct 11, 2004

He wished it could be as respectable and orthodox as spying. But somehow in his hands the traditional tools and attitudes were always employed toward mean ends: cloak for a laundry sack, dagger to peel potatoes, dossiers to fill up dead Sunday afternoons ...

Weeping Wound posted:

going to wager a guess that increased potency leads to sedation of the masses

What kind of pleb doesn't know that CBD is the sedative and the new more potent weed actually expands your mind more broooo

Alex has that lovely and special Texas conservative flavor of tinfoil

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.
It's absolutely fair to hold Alex Jones accountable for what his fans do because he preys on mentally unbalanced people and encourages them to go crazier.

Mia Wasikowska
Oct 7, 2006

Jewel Repetition posted:

It's absolutely fair to hold Alex Jones accountable for what his fans do because he preys on mentally unbalanced people and encourages them to go crazier.

In the cold light of day I can't deny it... And there's a lot about Mr. Jones I still don't know. I supposed I'd feel very differently if someone I cared about was wrapped up in his lunacy. It would all be a lot less funny.

Mia Wasikowska
Oct 7, 2006

But I don't and it is,


Rofl

Mia Wasikowska
Oct 7, 2006

His mode of expression is as far as I'm concerned the most perfect and accurate way to talk about this election. Even if what he says is wrong and bad, the mode is so perfect, I can't get over it.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Zas posted:

In the cold light of day I can't deny it... And there's a lot about Mr. Jones I still don't know. I supposed I'd feel very differently if someone I cared about was wrapped up in his lunacy. It would all be a lot less funny.

I met a lot of them in Austin. Its basically a low level cult and while it doesnt ruin a supporters life it def makes them insufferable to normal people and some of th6em waste a lot of money on weird pills.

that said i still find alex jones himself hilarious of course

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


from my experience his support has a big generation gap, with a lot of younger Truther weirdos who believe in inter dimensional alien crystals taking over the world th6rough flouride etc, and older survivalist libertarian gun hording who are working on an apocalypse bunker, aka dale gribbles.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

He's getting much fatter and balder.

the bitcoin of weed
Nov 1, 2014

Weeping Wound posted:

going to wager a guess that increased potency leads to sedation of the masses

im not watching a 10 minute interview but given that it's Alex Jones I'm guessing he's afraid of the globalists putting GMOs in the weed that turns the friggin frogs gay

Aschlafly
Jan 5, 2004

I identify as smart.
(But that doesn't make it so...)

Jewel Repetition posted:

It's absolutely fair to hold Alex Jones accountable for what his fans do because he preys on mentally unbalanced people and encourages them to go crazier.
Pretty much this. Sort of like when Milo knows his fans are a bunch of racist trolls and he encourages them to brigade a black woman's Twitter account, and they go crazy calling her "friend of the family" and comparing her to a gorilla, it's hard to see how he's not at least partially culpable. It might not be exactly "intentional", but it's definitely at least "reckless".

Best Korea
Feb 15, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3vMy1_NHHs
It totally happened guys!

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Do you think Alex Jones has a Tinder account?

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/ToddDracula/status/763191236572377088

McJuicy
May 9, 2008
Why wouldn't they put it in a bigger tank?

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FyDF2wllSc

Mia Wasikowska
Oct 7, 2006


:same:

VirtualStranger
Aug 20, 2012

:lol:
https://twitter.com/immolations/status/764566345459568641

VirtualStranger
Aug 20, 2012

:lol:
https://twitter.com/immolations/status/764592098494541824

C. Everett Koop
Aug 18, 2008

all that yelling has really done a number on his vocal cords. can't even muster up the energy for a good bellow these days.

:sad:

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/immolations/status/767864758951415809

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

wut was dis

Cnut the Great
Mar 30, 2014

Homework Explainer posted:

uh, my good friend who got doxxed and harassed by his shitbird followers after counter-protesting him might beg to differ

LOL at the idea of taking Alex Jones seriously enough to loving counter-protest him.

Hey man, I've seen people get doxxed and harrassed by people on Something Awful for doing nothing except rubbing someone the wrong way, and this was basically actively encouraged by the people running this website, who used to provide a whole forum specifically devoted to that kind of thing. It was lovely behavior to encourage, but it also doesn't make Lowtax an accessory to any sort of real substantial injustice that's worth getting in a self-righteous huff about. I'm not going to demand Lowtax publicly apologize for facilitating the existence of the phrase "Your poison womb's making heaven too loving crowded".

Who gives a poo poo. Cyberbullying's mean, so don't do it probably. That's basically all there is to say. And I have no idea if Alex Jones actually even encouraged the stuff you're saying happened.

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

i miss parts helldump

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Bip Roberts posted:

wut was dis
A vine of Alex Jones ranting. Wonder why he took it down...

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uguXNL93fWg

Matoi Ryuko
Jan 6, 2004


I loved his scene in Waking Life.

420 Gank Mid
Dec 26, 2008

WARNING: This poster is a huge bitch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqccB2Zxglk

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009



Ill tell you this he was born in the wrong age, dude would have made a hell of a hermit

Jewel Repetition
Dec 24, 2012

Ask me about Briar Rose and Chicken Chaser.

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:

Ill tell you this he was born in the wrong age, dude would have made a hell of a hermit

But now millions of people can listen to him instead of just a few lucky lost travelers.

break-up breakdown
Mar 6, 2010


new fav yt channel

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Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

Still going through this thread, but here's the Young Turks fiasco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4pX53AqpUs

EDIT: It's like a loudmouth super group.

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