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Willatron
Sep 22, 2009
I'm watching the documentary right now

Alex Jones is a real piece of poo poo.

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Willatron
Sep 22, 2009
I came away from the HBO doc hating Alex Jones much more than I already did so I don't think that's the angle they took

Willatron
Sep 22, 2009

Mulaney Power Move posted:

The first thing Alex Jones fan say whenever you criticize him is he predicted 9/11. I hear this so often, but I never bothered to look up what he actually said.

So, I finally looked into it out of curiosity and it was a bunch of vague claims about in some point in the future, terrorists will blow up buildings or set off "suitcase nukes" or chemical weapons or that there would be a false flag terrorist attack. Nothing specific whatsoever about 9/11 and when he did mention specific things, he was wrong. That's like if I said "In the future there will be a major baseball game and one team will win" and then claimed to accurately predict who won the world series in 2024.

I don't know why I was expecting something more. I continue to underestimate how dumb people are.

Yeah, KF has covered it a few times but he didn't say anything that anybody else talking about potential terror attacks in the US wasn't saying at the time. Bin Laden had already hit the WTC once in 93 and it was assumed he would try again at some point in the future by a ton of people. In fact Alex's predictions were almost verbatim ripped from fellow conspiracy nutjob Bill Cooper, who loving hated Alex and called him out as a fraud before his death.

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