It’s Illegal to say something like, “I want to kill the president.” Like crazy illegal. It’s ok that I just said it because I was just telling you it’s illegal.
🎶🎶 It’s time for guillotines 🎶🎶
FBI! OPEN UP!
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You make a good point, but I still think that this is more stochastic terrorism from the right. They’re putting the notion of assassinating the president out there into the weak minds of their listeners, who will take that information and do with it what they will. It’s so indirect that Jones and co have plausible deniability.
Note how they don’t ask if the derp state will assassinate Trump, even though he’s supposed to be its enemy.
They’re putting the notion of assassinating the president out there into the weak minds of their listeners
While I don’t think you’re wrong, AJ has been talking about the president being assassinated for more than a decade. He was sure Trump was going to be assassinated almost constantly during his administration (poisoned cokes and hamberders were popular options).
People should stop giving that coked out drunkard any publicity, that’s literally all he wants. Well, that and to sell you all kinds of
InfoWarsDr Jones Naturals supplements THAT ARE IN NO WAY ASSOCIATED WITH INFOWARS, even though his dad owns it and sells all the same products and his mom is talking to him about his dad retiring.People should stop giving that coked out drunkard any publicity, that’s literally all he wants.
Well, someone was apparently awake during wonk class. Spot on comrade.
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They’re putting the notion of assassinating the president out there into the weak minds of their listeners, who will take that information and do with it what they will.
I do understand they can do multiple things at once even if they can barely walk and chew gum, and I would like if they were wiped from the face of the earth, but I would much rather that they turn their attention towards the president, instead of putting their attention on trans people or whatever racial minority comes up week by week to rile up the base. The president has a large amount of protection on him at all times, the chances that any right wing nutjob can target him effectively strike me as shockingly low, and if they did target him, then probably you’d see something actually happen to prosecute them. Basically nobody else has that same level of protection.
Hey, this is Alex Jones, nuance and honestly aren’t allowed /s
If you’re always giving people who don’t play fair, the benefits of the doubt, you’re going to end up with fascism.
Never help vipers survive, they’ll only end up stinging you.
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Yes you are, you’re pretending the title doesn’t contain the words “assassinate Biden”, when it clearly does. Now you’re pretending this was ever about truth and lies, when it never was.
It’s about perception, conveying the quite accurate perception that Alex Jones aids a politically unhinged and destabilizing political atmosphere.
He should be painted as such, instead you’re out here pretending like he’s a good honest man, that is being lied about.
You’re lending your honesty and labour, to a side of politics unworthy of the honour.
You have fallen into the trap of telling the Nazis there are Jews in the basement, thinking it will prove that you’re a good person, when it in fact just makes you culpable for the success of fascists.
“Would no one rid me of this troublesome priest?”
Ironically, Biden assassinating him would be cool and legal according to SCOTUS.
🤓umm, excuse me, the SCOTUS rule doesn’t make things legal; they stay illegal, but the POTUS will not be held accountable for them.
isn’t that SO MUCH better‽
The full title of the livestream was, “Will the Deep State Assassinate Biden If He Refuses To Leave?”
Fuck this badly written article for making me want to defend Alex Jones
<squidword-packing-up.jpg> yup! Funny how the story only reveals that at the very end.
Secret Service notified as Raw Story publishes a headline with the same message in title
lemmy.world investigated for popular post with “assassinate Biden” in the title.
[email protected] investigated for comment containing “assassinate Biden” in the body.
@[email protected] investigated for having a killer body. Also: the moves like Jagger.
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I guess Biden should just have him assassinated since he is clearly a threat to his ability to perform his presidential duties. Surely this is what the SCOTUS was referring to when they made that ruling.
We joke about this stuff. But when you stack up how Palestinian protesters on college campuses or BLM organizers in Ferguson and Baltimore or Quakers protesting the Iraq War were treated relative to a real live active guy with deep ties to domestic terrorist groups, its mind-boggling how little actually happens to the shock jock crowd.
Its not like Presidents are shy about straight up assassinating political dissidents, whether they are American Islamists and their families living abroad or Civil Rights leaders in Chicago and Philly. So how do these far-right types get to run nationally syndicated Radio Rwanda uninterrupted for decades across multiple administrations with no more than a polite knock at the door?
“[…] or Civil Rights leaders in Chicago and Philly.”
Just a reminder that the Philadelphia police bombed a home and killed 11 American citizens. The resulting fire burnt most of the houses on that block.
“Philadelphia police dropped two explosive devices from a helicopter onto the roof of a house occupied by MOVE. The Philadelphia Police Department allowed the resulting fire to burn out of control, destroying 61 previously evacuated neighboring homes over two city blocks and leaving 250 people homeless. Six adults and five children were killed in the attack, with one adult and one child surviving.”
POTUS got the thumbs-up emoji from SCOTUS
Biden needs to…. Presidential Immunity that clown as soon as possible.
Not only is that illegal, the dumbfuck doesn’t even realize that there couldn’t possibly be a better way for Democrats to sweep the election than on a wave of sympathy if Biden were assassinated.
That’s what the show posits. The title is something like “they’re gonna assassinate Biden”
I don’t even want to know who Alex Jones thinks “they” are this time.
Could be the donors, could be the party, could be a true believer.
I don’t listen to his show so idk the reasoning but this is probably one of those stopped clock situations.
They lose with Biden, if it goes instead to a brokered convention they lose. If Biden dies then there’s a good chance they win.
Your question of who is the sticking point though. The party doesn’t care about winning, the donors are all giving to both sides anyway, only a true believer would do such a thing.
There’s not a lot of precedent for that though. There was the congressional baseball watcher, but even then it was an ill conceived haphazard attack with little preparation.
Pardon the pun, but democrats just don’t got any shooters.
I completely disagree. You have Trump and his people calling Biden the most evil president in history. That could absolutely turn into an assassination from a Trump devotee.
nah, the american conservative movement is just trying to stay in their lane and let the democrats fuck this one up themselves. there’s no benefit for their party, donors or true believers to a biden death.
that’s not to say they can’t screw it up, just that they won’t allow or condone something as damaging to their chances as bidens death.
Since when have lone nuts stayed in their lane?
That depends on if you’re including people “known to law enforcement” as lone nuts.
If so then yeah, if not then no.
Your typical real deal lone nut doesn’t target political figures, instead opting for the uhh propaganda of the deed.
The ruby style lone nut isn’t really acting by themselves, and always seems to have a bunch of people around them influencing their decisions.
That and most likely running a candidate that isn’t geriatric.
Biden could be literally so ridden with dementia that he couldn’t recognize his own name and a wave of sympathy would still create a huge blue wave if he were assassinated.
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I genuinely think Jones has a yet to be defined metal disorder.
He makes his money this way. Sometimes things don’t have to be complicated.
Exactly. It doesn’t make sense because it’s a grift. These “pundits” are getting rich by scaring ignorant people.
We are all so distracted with our own problems we allow the wolves to run rampant. It’s quite sad.
Exactly, it’s akin to a dog pushing a button to get a treat, he’ll push it more and more often if it works. Except in this case the button is what gets his fans engaged and the treat is money.
Making money by worsening the world around you is a mental disorder
I’m of the opinion that we defined it several thousand years ago, in some form at least.
https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/one-crucial-word/
Belangia helpfully adds: “A-gnoia means literally ‘not-knowing’; a-mathia means literally ‘not-learning.’ In addition to the type of amathia that is an inability to learn, there is another form that is an unwillingness to learn. … Robert Musii in an essay called On Stupidity, distinguished between two forms of stupidity, one he called ‘an honorable kind’ due to a lack of natural ability and another, much more sinister kind, that he called ‘intelligent stupidity.'”
Belangia also quotes Glenn Hughes, from an essay entitled “Voegelin’s Use of Musil’s Concept of Intelligent Stupidity in Hitler and the Germans,” providing a further elucidation of the concept of amathia (italics in the original):
“The higher, pretentious form of stupidity stands only too often in crass opposition to [its] honorable form. It is not so much lack of intelligence as failure of intelligence, for the reason that it presumes to accomplishments to which it has no right … The stupidity this addresses is no mental illness, yet it is most lethal; a dangerous disease of the mind that endangers life itself. … [S]ince the ‘higher stupidity’ consists not in an inability to understand but in a refusal to understand, any healing or reversal of it will not occur through rational argumentation, through a greater accumulation of data and knowledge, or through experiencing new and different feelings … We may say that the reversal of a spiritual sickness must entail a spiritual cure.”
Willful ignorance is the greatest sin. I’ve been saying that for a while now, not that I believe in sin.
COVID was a real eye opener for me. Seeing how far people would go to remain ignorant.
Stupid can’t be helped and there is nothing wrong with it. Ignorance is different and not necessarily bad, if you see that you’re ignorant about something, you can choose to educate yourself.
However, willful ignorance is a different thing. I believe that most of society’s ills are rooted in willful ignorance and its exploitation by the evil.
However, willful ignorance is a different thing. I believe that most of society’s ills are rooted in willful ignorance and its exploitation by the evil.
“Wisdom alone, is the good for man, ignorance the only evil” (Euthydemus 281d)
“There is, he said, only one good, that is, knowledge, and only one evil, that is, ignorance” (in Diogenes Laertius, II.31)
Personally I believe in the statement about “a spiritual disease needing a spiritual cure”, but I’m not going for some spiritual mumbojumbo. If we take the spiritual disease to be some sort of block in your empathic abilities, however conscious or unconscious, and then we look at some of the most recent studies on empathogens (MDMA, LSD, psilocybin, etc), it wouldn’t be unreasonable to suggest that the “spiritual cure” might be something as simple as MDMA/psychedelic-assisted therapy.
Maybe we could call looking into this something like "Project Pretty-obvious-when-you-think-about-it "
not that I believe in sin
It’s perfectly legitimate to have the concept of sin, even if you don’t believe in a deity. There’s a moral code, whether defined by religious precepts, societal convention, personal preference,or objective logic, and evil is a sin against that regardless.
“It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it.”
Nah, just plain old schitzophrenia 🤖
This guy really likes to dig himself into the stupid hole any chance he gets, huh?
Wasn’t this fat fuck blubbering about how he had to sell his show? When is he finally going into oblivion?
Awwww he wants to give Biden another ass.
This is just the attention that fat bastard wants
How does this guy still have an audience?
I think he’s saner than Trump. Because Alex Jones doesn’t really believe the shit he says. But Trump is narcissistic to a level where he would take down the world him if he has no more options to “win”.
Ya know he may be working angle here. His whole life is over and he knows it. I’ll bet he figures if he goes crazy all in on Trump that maybe he could land some political support in getting his conviction overturned if Trump wins the election. Considering his current situation its probably the only chance he has.
You’ve just described the entire fascist right wing grift.
