• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, Alex Jones was actually right on some of the weirdo extremist things he was claiming being planned, it’s just that he was part of those plans to begin with.

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      3 months ago

      One of the problems with having your “truth tellers” rely on commercial sales to get the news out. Jones went from a guy who would mainstream generic fringe views of every conceivable quality to a guy who exclusively dealt in far-right conspiracy theories because that’s where the money was at.

      Joe Rogan is on a similar arc. The longer he churns out episodes, the more fascist his guests and his “common sense” views become. And then you look at his advertisers…