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InfoWars is behind Trumps idea that the media is covering up terrorist attacks
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TarpitCarnivore
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Well duh. It's infowars, aka conspiracy theory theater.
ElectricBlanketFire
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Mr. Giggles
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Garrett Hawke
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but remember, alex jones is really funny because he says stupid shit while high.
1.21Gigawatts
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I always expected that a president would have to show some sources for his outrageous claims at some point and that would be the point where the bullshit falls apart.
Why can Trump continue without anyone holding him accountable?
Why can Trump continue without anyone holding him accountable?
Baron von Loathsome
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Gurgelhals
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Congratulations, USA, you've elected a conspiracy nutter as President.
Jesus fucking Christ :-(((
Jesus fucking Christ :-(((
Gingrich saying (with a smug look) that people's perception of increased crime was as significant as actual crime statistics was a sign that the party had lost any reason or grasp of reality. It seems like collectively many on the right took the lessons of cultural relativism and applied them in a way which shows they don't really understand them at all.
Instead or arguing that we should respect different cultural values or perspectives they argue that a pineapple is a tree and that we should respect that as someone believes it. It's like a child going out of his/her way to misinterpret something in order to score points in an argument.
Also, did InforWars ever imagine a cover up that they didn't believe in? That's their MO.
Baron von Loathsome
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Really? The man who came into politics by popularizing the birther movement is a conspiracy nutter?
Angelus Errare
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But her emails
johancruijff
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Remember when conspiracy theories were fun?
10 years ago when I was a teenager. Things were so different then. Talking about Roswell and JFK and shit. Now it's just darkness.
Garrett Hawke
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We all know the only real conspiracies are that the Clinton foundation is receiving money from Saudi Arabia to strip away gay rights, john podesta is a pedo, and Barack "hussein" Obama is a Kenyan Muslim who wants sharia law.
Everything else = fake news.
Everything else = fake news.
Beren the Empty-Handed
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How do we even salvage something like this? When people just don't care about what's real or not?
jellies_two
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What did the Koreans just do to their president for taking advice from a shadowy un-elected fortune teller ? Starting to sound really familiar. Info wars or Steve bannon it's all the same. Black magic and madness.
Gurgelhals
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Not really. You'd have to go back more than 15 years for that. That whole conspiracy nonsense started to get really annoying after 9/11 and all that "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" shit. What is surprising and deeply concerning is how quickly all that nonsense turned from a fringe phenomenon into something that carries a lot more political clout. The last time that happened ... well, let's not go down that route yet... :-(
Yeah, I had no idea Alex Jones had such a following on gaf until that thread popped up
Air Zombie Meat
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And people used to say infowars was harmless.
CarpeDeezNutz
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Maybe not a following but I did not know that side of him until that podcast(?) with Joe Rogan, I thought he was all right wing drivel.
This must be a stage in our collective conciousness where we either ascend this bullshit or burn with it.
Garrett Hawke
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Yup. I mean all of these posts from the front page of that thread alone:
Listened live and man this podcast made me rethink Trump for sure. Not sure if it is all right but Jones has been right on a few things years before they actually came out in public.
Fun listen but I take all this shit with a grain of salt since it is so nutty. Fun if it is true. First 20 min is psychic vampires!
So many people hate Joe and his podcast, why even come in and post in a thread about an episode?
Joe is not the smartest guy in the world, but he often has interesting guests on and it's a nice long-form podcast that can actually be pretty informative and inspiring. You just gotta make sure you check facts out if it's Joe spouting them, because he's usually partially or completely wrong. His podcasts got me motivated to lose a lot of weight years back when I was depressed and not taking care of myself. I enjoy the podcasts for what they are, you just gotta know when Joe is out of his element about certain subjects, which is most of the time.
This podcast episode in particular was not an interview or anything, it was just what fans wanted; to get Alex on there and let him go batshit crazy for hours, which is exactly what happened and it's a wild ride full of laugh out loud moments because of how ridiculous it is.
Not so harmless now, eh?
Almost like giving nutjobs a platform is a bad idea.
That's exactly Trumps modus operandi.
Yesterday I read an interesting anecdote from Trumps school years: He mistook the wrestler Antonino Rocca's name for Rocky Antonino and basically kept insisting that he was named like that. He is a child mentally, a very dumb and infinitely stubborn bully to be precise.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/young-donald-trump-military-school/2016/06/22/f0b3b164-317c-11e6-8758-d58e76e11b12_story.html?utm_term=.65634da905e2
Wait...
Was Apollo 11 fake news?
Megaton!
A former french president did the same (probably more than one). It was a woman, and some say he was taking more than advices, too. As far as I know, it hasn't made a big bang ^_^
She wasn't shadowy, though... But clueless, definitively (she predicted a great day for transportation for 9/11)
Garrett Hawke
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To be fair, I don't think trump actually believed that one. Just racist.
Like the hat?
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So what is the goal? To protect religion? While at the same time stating these people are against Christianity?
entremet
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He already has his own platform. Plus he's on YT.
You guys and your platform arguments have been falling asleep or something?
It's 2017. Any idiot can have a platform thanks to twitter, FB, and YT.
I can't stand Alex Jones but these arguments remind me of taking a knife to a gun fight. War has changed.
BrassDragon
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I think the broad conspiracy theory is that the establishment/illuminati/Bilderberg foundations/whoever want a single market world without borders and nationalities. 'They' need mass immigration to continue without local populations getting restless and resisting, hence cover-ups by mainstream media.
Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me either.
Bl@de
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darkistheway
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Don't forget that they are lizards and/or satanic demons. That's an important part of the truth. It all makes sense when you realize that.
Turns out the red pill is, in fact, a powerful hallucinogen.
31GhostsIV
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Even if the media did somehow collude across all of the countries that europe comprises of (including mine) and didn't report on terrorist attacks...
I'm pretty sure bystanders would have with their phones. People video and share acts of racism and violence on public transport, so of course they would let people know if they witnessed an attack.
He's such an idiot and he's fucking dangerous. Bill Clinton - lied about a blowjob = impeached. Trump - where do I even start? = Republicans let him get away with it because when they're in power the rules are different.
I'm pretty sure bystanders would have with their phones. People video and share acts of racism and violence on public transport, so of course they would let people know if they witnessed an attack.
He's such an idiot and he's fucking dangerous. Bill Clinton - lied about a blowjob = impeached. Trump - where do I even start? = Republicans let him get away with it because when they're in power the rules are different.
The two sentiments aren't mutually exclusive, though. The fact that a lot of things can be misapplied or absorbed in a counterproductive way means media has to operate with at least a baseline amount of faith in their viewers as a whole, and the fact that there are reasonable, solid enough people who desire some amount of unique or even insane content means there's an imperative to provide it.
Something like Zeitgeist might not be the healthiest watch in the world for someone of certain inclinations, but crazy and ridiculous things have the capacity to stimulate the mind and conversation in enjoyable ways.
Basically, I don't listen to Joe Rogan, but I just don't see "well, guess what, Trump was influenced by Alex Jones!" as an adequate response to people who apparently enjoyed watching the two get high together.
Trump is always the victim to them, even though he's President. Every single negative piece of press about him is something concocted by the global elites and when he's inevitably impeached it's a coup by George Soros or some shit. If he somehow doesn't get impeached and isn't re-elected, it's a global conspiracy. Alex Jones even said on that Rogan podcast that he wants to help middle America but the machinations of the globalists get in his way and it's all their fault blah blah blah.
Just fucking abominable.
That's how it starts. It's all fun and hilarious but every time Joe interjects with something like "Well, CNN is afraid because Alex is right about a lot of shit" it helps InfoWars because there's a lot of people who see Rogan as a reasonable person with level headed political beliefs.
So basically "if it's a person I don't like then they're with the Illuminati"?
tiredheadcrab
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A guy who lead the birther movement reads conspiracy material online? Stop the fucking press.
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