Alex Jones has completely lost it

[Santander]

Ah, yes, “a broken clock is right twice a day.”

That's exactly what i thought.

[Rookie Yinzer]

K.

[Burke Bro]

This is entertainment, not actual news. It saddens me that there are people in this world who take this man seriously.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Alex Jones never had "it".

[KingSweden]

definitely an act

it's almost like he puts on a crazy act to gain attention from all sides in order to drive up his ad revenue or something

He unlocked the cheat code.

[HillGoose]

Alex's grip on reality grows ever more tenuous.  He now says that Democrats will launch a civil war on July 4:

This would probably get him arrested for causing civil unrest in most countries.

Unfortunately even if his followers directly go and attack people who they think are Democrats starting civil war and say they did so because Alex Jones warned them; he will likely face no accountability.  Which is a huge problem how there are no repercussions for stuff like this.

This is true. Alt-right basement virgins could go out and kill a bunch of random minorities, explicitly state they were motivated by Alex Jones saying civil war was coming, nothing would happen to Jones, and everyone on Facebook would still find a way to somehow blame "liberal snowflakes" for it.

[ON Progressive]

That could’ve been said years ago.

[Badger]

Alex's grip on reality grows ever more tenuous.  He now says that Democrats will launch a civil war on July 4:

This would probably get him arrested for causing civil unrest in most countries.

Unfortunately even if his followers directly go and attack people who they think are Democrats starting civil war and say they did so because Alex Jones warned them; he will likely face no accountability.  Which is a huge problem how there are no repercussions for stuff like this.

This is true. Alt-right basement virgins could go out and kill a bunch of random minorities, explicitly state they were motivated by Alex Jones saying civil war was coming, nothing would happen to Jones, and everyone on Facebook would still find a way to somehow blame "liberal snowflakes" for it.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Guys, don't you realize he probably is just acting?

[HillGoose]

Guys, don't you realize he probably is just acting?

Of course he's acting to drive up viewership and ad revenue, but his mentally ill fanbase who actually believe the things he says probably don't realize that.

Which is dangerous, when he's "warning" his viewers of an impending "civil war"

Who knows what the crazy people will do?

[Statilius the Epicurean]

definitely an act

it's almost like he puts on a crazy act to gain attention from all sides in order to drive up his ad revenue or something

And it's almost like threads such as this which pay him any attention are abetting him and worsening the discourse.

[GeorgiaModerate]

definitely an act

it's almost like he puts on a crazy act to gain attention from all sides in order to drive up his ad revenue or something

And it's almost like threads such as this which pay him any attention are abetting him and worsening the discourse.

I suspect very few people here either (a) believe Alex Jones is for real or (b) are likely to be persuaded by his stories.  But the phenomenon of Alex (and others like him) disseminating this kind of inflammatory misinformation, and the possible effect of it on his listeners, is something that I think is worth discussing on a political forum.

[Progressive Pessimist]

Alex Jones never had "it".