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There are some folks really upset about us not platforming a maniac. If you feel like stopping Alex Jones from being actively harmful is a slippery slope directly to something you might say, boy, I would want to take a minute and think that through.


Don't read too much into it, it's just a joke, I'm very happy with Jones losing his platform. I thought I could add to the Onion's satire with a bit of my own, but forgot how hard it is sometimes to tell apart humor from Fox News-induced mental illness. Sorry about that.


Ooh, my bad for not even considering the possibility!


Do you think there is an acceptable third option between "the globalists winning" and "it is OK for a single media outlet to wage a war on the grieving parents of the victims of a mass murder"?


My comment was just a silly joke, reusing some of Jones phrasing. I never fully grasped who "the globalists" were in his mind, and why they were seemingly behind everything he dislikes, but I always found if funny. I'm just happy he lost his platform, and I find the Onion's piece rather amusing.

I thought I could add to it with this dumb joke but I forgot about the fact that Jones still has a sizeable following, and it's sometimes hard to tell if someone is just kidding or an insane lunatic. I'm in the former camp (I hope).


Typically, "globalists" from the Alex Jones crowd means "Jews".

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/the-ori...


Yeah, always circles back to the Jews with these people....



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Who cares what exogany says about it when actual juries have ruled on the matter?


You can read the defamation complaint. Sure looks like Jones did way more than talk about other people's theories.

https://infowarslawsuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1-Oct...




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