Alex Jones Believers - How Do Ye Feel Now ?

Ah now in fairness which of us hasn't accused families bereaved by a terrible massacre of being 'crisis actors' from time to time?

Fantastic.

Cognitive dissonance is at the root of all the cult followers with wild ideas and that includes religion. People I know that went all in on conspiracy theories were the ones who didn't give a siht in school and made it harder for the rest of us.

They left school with an empty head and have now only got a grasp on current events or history. They're brains always take the easy route because learning is difficult. They're in the situation in life that was inevitable, they have to pay their way and be responsible. That's painful and their untrained brains will grasp the nearest narrative that makes them feel better.

They rejoice in finding other deluded people which is human instinct, we need to belong. I've had a cousin go through the process and it's sad. There's no convincing the crack pot theories like the 5G a while back. I spent hours trying to educate him on basic science but old dogs and so sure of himself he wouldn't have any of it.

People crave certainty which is by nature impossible and that's where hucksters take advantage. I've another cousin that's addicted to psychics and fortune tellers. She lost her father too early and these creeps make a tax free living from it and get to swan around like a demi god.

Any maybe the people who secretly control the world are also Lizard people from the centre of the Earth. You don't know that either. How would any of us know?

And shock, an Alex Jones defender is any anti-vaxxer.

So great, all of the claims I pointed out are all false and obviously so according to you. And the only thing he's right about is some vague, empty hand waving about rich people controlling the world.

If he's wrong about so much (including all the hateful, bigoted stuff), and the stuff he's "right about" is so vague and detached from what he actually says why should we listen to him at all?

David Icke claims pretty much the same vaguely "plausible" stuff. Only as far as I'm aware, Icke didn't go out of his way to harass the parents of dead children to help promote his business. Why not start following Icke?

Also, why does the idea that Jones is some times vaguely right (If you ignore 99% of what he claims) then mean that it's acceptable to you for him to do stuff like that?

You guys keep trying to downplay and deflect from and justify what he actually did. It's weird.

Delighted for the scumbag, an utterly vile individual.

So is the notion that Alex Jones proposes that they're all satanists who eat babies.

(Also, there's no "maybe" about lizard people dude. Lizard people aren't real.)

And yea, you are an anti-vaxxer. Your rant is entirely anti-vaxxer propaganda and talking points.

And now you're going to start defending Icke, the guy who claimed he was Jesus and believes that there's actual Lizard people? You understand how doing these things doesn't do good things for your credibility.

Ok. So you agree what Alex Jones did was unacceptable and he's being punished for it.

Why then are you trying to diminish what he did? Why engage in the whataboutery? Why pretend he's got an actual point about anything?

Bizarre behaviour altogether.

Ok. You don't believe you're an anti-vaxxer. That's nice. You told me that I could make what I wanted of your comments. You comments make it clear you are an anti-vaxxer even if you don't realise it or define it that way. You are now trying to accuse me of "not questioning anything" as a reflex. It's silly.

You started to defend Icke along with Jones here:

You said that you followed him until recently and only because he got deplatformed, not because what he claimed was idiotic.

And in what way are we "lynching" Jones? By pointing out what he did? And that what he did was wrong?

Are we not allowed to point out that he did these things because other people have done other different bad things?

You're still not really making a point here other than telling people to be nicer to a dude who made millions in part by harassing the parents of dead children.

You also repeat the notion that Alex can't be wrong about everything. But yea, he can be. Why couldn't he be?

When clocks are broken they aren't right twice a day because they work on those occasions. Those clocks are still broken and are only right dude to coincidence. The point of the phrase is to highlight how you can't trust things that are often wrong. The point of the phrase is not "you should trust this guy even though he's wrong 99.999% of the time. That 0.0001% of the time, he's dead right."