Alex Jones has amassed a fortune of $270 million for spreading misinformation and lies.
The fact that this is a country that allows a man like that to be worth $270 million is disgusting.
There is a lot of ignorant people out there and there is little accountability for people like Jones.
It’s a sad state of affairs.
How much is any news corporation worth? Because they’re also spreading lies.
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shareAs bad as the mainstream media is, they don’t go to the level of Alex Jones. Even Fox News and CNN have higher standards.
shareSo do they spread lies or not?
shareNo , the definition of "News" is "new things that have happened", not "Lies"
If you dont like the content of the "new things that have happened" , that does not make it untrue.
Mainstream media don't do news anymore, they do narratives. Usually selected facts and half truth to form easy to digest narratives to feed to the general public. There are outright lies as well but they are usually started by no-commercial media like BBC, then everyone else just quotes it and pile on.
Their lies are much more sophisticated, that is why Alex Jones is worth of few hundreds of millions, they are worth hundreds of billions.
We are all fed these kind of lies by billionaire controlled media day in and day out. Only few of us are aware of it.
There are left and right media fighting each other, but you need to understand they are on the same side, their fights are more factional.
Alex Jones did not preach weapons of mass destruction and get the population on board with slaughtering a million Muslim peasants.... the mainstream media is part of the USA war machine
shareThe mainstream media simply reported on what the Government was informing. Whether they should’ve been more skeptical is a good debate.
That is much different to Alex Jones knowingly spreading conspiracy theories.
That is much different to Alex Jones knowingly spreading conspiracy theories.
I'm just astounded that no one has been questioning whether or not the so-called storming of The Capitol on January 6th happened, whether or not monkeypox is really a zoonotic virus rather than an instance of biological warfare launched by The US government on it's own citizens, and if Anne Heche is really dead, why hasn't anyone leaked photos onto TMZ yet?
How is he different from any other rich fuck who lies to the people?
shareHe's just like Trump!
shareHe’s not. That’s my point. There is something seriously wrong with this country.
shareThere is. People have been systematically conditioned to not think for themselves. The right's got problems. The left has become downright brainless (which is why I no longer call myself a liberal, even though my beliefs, essentially, are liberal).
shareamerica isat a meritocracy. its a disgusting corporation elitocracy where you are rewarded for lying, conning, spreading hate. just do it for your side, and shake hands with the other team in the locker room after the game and joke about how fake it was. while the teams fans boo you thinking it was a real conflict between team Dem and team republican
shareIt's not wrong, it's CAPITALISM! That's how you make it big bro. With so many uneducated retards in the US, it's the best place on Earth to make money. There is no short of dumbness there. If you got the skills to con people within the bounds of the law, use it I say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dMOfwUP0F0
You make a good point, this reminds me of the warning from Carl Sagan's book(highlighted in the below YouTube video) - The Demon Haunted World:
"The dumbing down of America..by the enormously influential media and lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on psuedoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance..we slide, almost without noticing into superstition and darkness"
Carl Sagan would never have dreamed of the current level of dumbassery and deliberate misinformation
And politicians like Pelosi and the rest of the Capitol Hill goons make millions off insider trading and don't get punished for it. Go after these assholes first.
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