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It's really weird reading some of these threads, because people say things with such authority which are demonstrably wrong. 1) Alex Jones was famous long befo

It's really weird reading some of these threads, because people say things with such authority which are demonstrably wrong. 1) Alex Jones was famous long before his Sandy Hook crap. 2) I don't know how you could call him "conservative" when, during the Bush years, he was a vocal anti war person who claimed that 9/11 was an inside job that was being used as a pretext for war. 3) Anti authoritarian, maybe? 4) Actually there are chemicals in the water that are disrupting hormones (turning the frogs "gay"): https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/index.cfm https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine/ind... 5) He recanted the Sandy Hook claims as early as 2019. Alex Jones is absolutely nuts. There should be punishment for what he has done to these Sandy Hook families. That said: I hope people are just as happy when Kyle Rittenhouse receives a few 10s of millions of dollars from every news agency which slandered him (knowingly) as well. Otherwise this does feel like weaponizing the courts, which is concerning.

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In my experience, news programs are very precise over using “alleged” or “suspected” when describing defendants until they’ve been proven guilty. And they quickly issue corrections when known facts change. Opinion programs, however, can be much more loose with their language. Tucker Carlson famously avoided repercussions from his speech with this defense. This isn’t a new thing. People still call OJ Simpson a murderer despite being declared not guilty in his criminal trial. People call George W Bush a murderer despite never even being charged with a crime. Colloquially, murderer can also be used to mean killer. Rittenhouse is a killer. I don’t see his lawsuits going anywhere, but I’m open to there being actual good evidence and argument for it. Maybe you can provide some great clips or articles with the slander, but otherwise I think the comparison with what Jones did is laughable.

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In my experience, news programs are very precise over using “alleged” or “suspected” when describing defendants until they’ve been proven guilty. And they quickly issue corrections when known facts change. Opinion programs, however, can be much more loose with their language. Tucker Carlson famously avoided repercussions from his speech with this defense. This isn’t a new thing. People still call OJ Simpson a murderer despite being declared not guilty in his criminal trial. People call George W Bush a murderer despite never even being charged with a crime. Colloquially, murderer can also be used to mean killer. Rittenhouse is a killer. I don’t see his lawsuits going anywhere, but I’m open to there being actual good evidence and argument for it. Maybe you can provide some great clips or articles with the slander, but otherwise I think the comparison with what Jones did is laughable.