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[–] 137 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

There's a cabal of rich people, some of them potentially pedophiles who are pulling the strings in society... except many of them are his friends and benefactors, and he's been awfully quiet since the Epstein files got partially released...

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  • [–] 32 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I mean....yeah....but also the Sandy Hook victims won their lawsuit, and from my understanding he doesn't have a show anymore. He had to give InfoWars over to The Onion.

    So, yeah. You haven't heard from him in a while because he has no platform.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    I hope he's doing what he did the last time he got taken off air, and just starts wandering the streets screaming about conspiracy theories like the homeless nutjob he was always supposed to be.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Last I was aware, The Onion’s takeover is (frustratingly) still tied up in court

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  • [–] 51 points 4 months ago

    He said he was "kind of retarded" once, so partially true.

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  • [–] 44 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    His infamous statement "chemicals in the water that turn the freaking frogs gay" may have been a corruption of the discovery that sewage runoff was feminizing fish because of the estradiol in urine from women on birth control, and other endocrine disrupting chemicals newly found in rivers from human sources.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Also, Atrazine (a pesticide that contaminates water sources) turns the friggin frogs trans.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2842049/

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Damn near anything makes the frogs trans, that was the whole plot of the first Jurassic Park. They used frog DNA to fill in the missing bits, and accidentally added the voluntary sex change gene, allowing the dinos to propagate.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    That's...actually wrong for once.

    The entire plot of the first Jurassic Park was caused by (a) corporate espionage and (b) lack of information about frog biology. (a) directly led to the security systems being sabotaged, and (b) led directly to dinosaurs reproducing into a population the system was not designed for.

    Unless you think capitalism is the reason people don't plan for events that cannot be reasonably expected to occur given the information at the time. Note that the paleontologist did not immediately flag the issue either during the intro presentation, so it was obscure enough that even the external experts (not the capitalists) wouldn't have considered it. In universe.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)
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    Well, do you really think two would have been enough? Even three is a little short, what if one gets the sharts? Four sounds nice, until you realize they can get sick twice. Five gives you four backups, but a revolver carries six shots, so...it would be smart to have infinite IT, because infinite things can go wrong.

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  • [–] 87 points 4 months ago (25 children)

    Broken clock is right twice a day, but there's a reason we don't use them to tell time shrug-outta-hecks

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  • [+] [S] 12 points 4 months ago* (23 children)
  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago* (19 children)

    I mean, they're used everywhere still and aren't exactly a dated form of timekeeping or anything even if digital clocks are preferred on computers

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  • [+] [S] -17 points 4 months ago (17 children)
  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (13 children)

    Could it be, that they are in school to learn stuff?

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  • [+] [S] -25 points 4 months ago (12 children)
  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Mate, they do. Part of math classes in the first or second year. Source: I'm a teacher.

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  • [+] [S] -14 points 4 months ago* (4 children)
  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    You are right I'm not from the States. However, my rather quick and shallow search has shown me that in the USA too, it should be taught in first year math classes how to draw and read analog clocks and in second year the concept of 24 hour days, AM and PM should be taught.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Some people are illiterate everywhere. What’s your point? Anyone can look ip literacy stats in the US, you aren’t revealing some dirty secret. So some kids can’t tell time. Prove it’s worse instead of repeating whatever pointless hot take you’re pushing.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    If the clocks are still in schools, and their schedules are based on time, the kids are going to figure out how to read them.

    Maybe think before you call others dumb...

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  • [+] [S] -5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    Parents might not be helping. Doesn't mean they aren't teaching it. Schools are experiencing a surge in apathetic students since covid and LLMs became widespread. Also teachers will complain about the standouts, doesn't mean it's every student.

    You even said it yourself:

    some

    And yes, I used the word dumb to paraphrase what you were implying with your post. Again, maybe don't criticize others' reading ability if your comprehension level can't handle a simple summation of a point.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm forcing my kids to learn it. Both digital and analog clocks have use cases, but the truth is that analog clocks are simply faster to parse.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Idk why this is so downvoted when it's demonstrably accurate.

    I learned how to read a clock in grade school but analog clocks were phased out for digital clocks by the time I reached middle school and weren't in my high school at all.

    My daughter is now going to the same grade school I went to and all the analog clocks have been swapped out for digital.

    I personally taught my daughter how to read an analog clock before she even started school but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't teach her in school since it's not necessary anymore

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    On an interesting clock note. Yes, analogue clocks are in school, but at home, kids are surrounded by digital clocks on their screens.

    So we are getting kids who can easily reach a digital clock, but are struggling with basics "short hand means hour"

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Long hand means hour divided by 5. Cut the kids some slack, analog cocks are confusing. They gotta learn their five times tables before they can consistently read clocks. I remember when I was old enough to understand the concept, but a little bit too young to do multiples of five in My head.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago

    Yes; I believe he said at one point that there’s a sucker born every minute.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago

    In the same way a lot of bullshitters are. He'd say 105 things a week, many of them being mutually exclusive, and then when one of the random guesses happened to have turned out to be true, he'd crow and preen to say he was right and play a clip editing out the parts where he'd said all the other nonsense.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago

    Frogs are fabulous around me.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    He probably got his name right.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    Most conspiracy theories get very close to the truth until they make a hard right turn into “I made it the fuck up” village.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Having listened to the entirety of Knowledge Fight...

    No.

    Not a single time.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    He was kinda sorta in a way right about the frogs turning gay

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Wasn't his thing with the frogs turning gay that the government was putting something in the water turning frogs and people gay? Maybe I don't have a complete understanding of his hypothesis but how was he right about this?

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago*

    The real thing was that at one point there was so much plastic pollution in certain parts of the environment that some of the endocrine disrupting chemicals in it, like BPA (which mimics estrogen) and certain pthalates, were leaching into to water in large enough concentrations to make noticeable changes in the bodies and sex organs of animals that are extra sensitive to those things, like frogs and other amphibians. Mutations in male frogs where they displayed female traits, etc. It's a big part of the reason that 15 or 20 years ago everyone started switching to metal water bottles, and the plastic ones all advertise that they're BPA-free now. Alex Jones took that and spun it up into some grand conspiracy about the government intentionally putting chemicals in your water to feminize you and make you docile so, I dunno, you won't put up a fight when they come to round you up and put you in FEMA camps or whatever, I guess. At least that's the basic gist as I remember it. I never really paid an enormous amount of attention to Jones, so I might not be 100% on the details.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, it wasn't secret government chemicals like he thought, but regular old pollutants. I can't recall if it was medication from insufficiently treated sewage, or industrial runoff, or what, but there really was a case of stray chemicals making some wild frogs gay. So he was a little bit right about gay frogs. He just was, as usual, astoundingly wrong about those chemicals being a secret government plot to turn people gay.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Ok that makes sense. Still it sounds like he was regurgitating the findings of a study of frog behavior in polluted environments, and then creating a conspiracy theory around it. How was anything he added correct information on top of the preexisting evidence?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    The frogs are all gay now.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    If Alex Jones told me it was sunny out I would bring my umbrella.

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Let this asshole fade into history.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago*

    Sure.
    It took somebody else editing and producing, but he definitely had something to say at least once.
    This is a clip from an odd movie about death. and life. 25 years ago.
    It's an Alex Jones rant. And it's full of beautiful truth.
    Surprise!

    Alex Jones in Richard Linklater's "Waking Life" (2001)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VERGx6VjIKA

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    People will sit through 10 minutes of ads between 30 seconds of screaming. I didn't think they would but 🤷

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago*

    There was one episode of Knowledge Fight where they hilighted one single prediction that was 100% accurate, but it was all in a sea of his usual BS that is way off. I don't remember what it was, though.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    He was right about Bohemian Grove, infact the reason we know what we do about that is because of him sneaking in to film it.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Jon Ronson and Knowledge Fight are excellent sources on the Alex Jones visit to Bohemian Grove. Ronson was there with Jones.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It's kind of hilarious hearing Jones' story about "sneaking" into Bohemian Grove told from the point of view of the other people who went there with him. It's such a great insight into how absolutely contrived all his content is.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    right about what exactly? that they are satanists? nope.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    That a group of presidents, businessmen and ultra rich people from around the world get together for a secret summer camp in the woods where they worship an owl.

    The satanist shit came after he went fully nuts.This was back when he still had working brain cells.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    None of that is new. There has been reporting on it for decades before Alex Jones. All he did that is unique is record a video. He then went on to proclaim everything as satanic, kinda like the gay frogs, he gets a small sliver of truth and creates an abscess of bullshit around it.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    No he wasn't. He's a fucking shit-stirring asshole who believed for the longest time until the courts had to twist his arm about it to be convinced, that actual children did not die during a shooting massacre. He deserves to have his platform shut down and given to a satire company, he deserves to be drained of all of his financial resources.

    And before anyone says "his voice is being silenced! what about his first amendment rights?!". All that his voice and platform has done, is just damage and warp the minds of anyone who so much gave him honest attention. Just so that they too, could be walking mouthpieces for him. I mean that's partially why we're dealing with this war now over misinformation, it is partly because of this prick.

    If there's anyone whose voice I wouldn't cry about being silenced forever, its this clown. If Alex Jones has actually proven anything at all, is to how gullible and devoid of intelligence people are to have faithfully followed everything he's said and done while spinning it all like as if he's satire. Too bad this 'satire' was something people actually believed in and still believe in.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    No he wasn’t.

    Bohemian Grove turned out to be very much a real thing.

    You don't need to like or agree with him, but twisting the reality isn't helpful. The question wasn't what you think of him. That's a subjective question. Whether he was right about anything is an objective one.

    Nobody here is defending anything he has said or done so I have no clue where that rambling is coming from.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago
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    He did go undercover in the 90s or early 2000s (its been awhile) and record part of the Bohemian Grove stuff.

    I thought that was pretty cool. Sadly never did anything like that again though.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago*

      Bohemian Grove 

    someone below had it before me

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    Well, I mean, 9/11 was an inside job...

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Fun that you ask!

    There is a very well done coverage on one of his topics regarding "Gay frogs" made by OkiWiredStories

    Link to the short documentary:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i5uSbp0YDhc

    Also an interview with the scientist from the documentary

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eUpRIyHp_Po

    It was a long time since I saw it but in short:

    Alex jones claimed there was chemicals in the water that altered and affected humans to be more gay/lesbian, it even turned the frogs gay.

    Turns out there was man working for a pesticide company resesrching the effect it had on amphibius animals, one thing was the gender of frogs.

    He found it had negative effect but the compandy would try to stop him when he found this, the docunentary shows how sygenta tried to stop him and the way corruption works on local and higher corporate levels.

    I recomend watching as it is so well and gives you a insigt in the way corruption and corporate leverage works.

    So i bet Alex Jones was onto somethign here, but in the end Alex Jones are paid by shady companies.

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