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While nothing can bring back their children, siblings, or classmates, one hopes (but doesn't expect) that this will help consign a particularly vile and repugna
by Arrath 4y ago
While nothing can bring back their children, siblings, or classmates, one hopes (but doesn't expect) that this will help consign a particularly vile and repugnant conspiracy theory to the dustbin of polite discourse.
- ifqwz 4y ago
- dexwiz 4y agoDoubt. The people who believe this kind of stuff will just say it's the deep state trying to cover up their conspiracy or some equally asinine garbage. They have a persecution fetish, and any sort of punishment will just cause them to double down.
- AnimalMuppet 4y ago"There's none so blind as those that just won't see."
- wahern 4y agoSuch public accounting does seem to have value in reducing the number of people (present and future) not yet committed to his cult, but who otherwise might. And while there'll be more Alex Jones personalities, for a little while at least they'll likely moderate their behavior more than they otherwise might.
- permo-w 4y agoodds are Alex Jones will move somewhere with a poor judicial relationship with the US and add this to his narrative
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoDon't give him ideas. But if he does, making money from this trash (or at least from a US audience for it) may be harder.
- permo-w 4y agoalso presumably he'd have to leave behind a significant portion of his assets
- Rapzid 4y agoI'm not sure those people have the internal energy necessary to sustain the same magnitude and frequency of a abuse. Mostly the type of people who need an external source of energy. If Jones is taken out of the equation the whole thing may just dry up aside from the most remote, dark, damp corners of society.
- robswc 4y agoThis will certainly not help and has only breathed new life into the conspiracy. The (un)fortunate thing about most people that are absolutely nuts is that they have nothing to lose.
- toomanyrichies 4y agoAt this point, I've come to think that nothing would help these people. Nut jobs will see what they want to see. So we might as well make pied pipers like Jones face the consequences of their actions, like what we saw with today's ruling.