Jones used his final moments on air to lash out at The Onion and signal his plan for a defiant comeback.

Jones used his final moments on air to lash out at The Onion and signal his plan for a defiant comeback.

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    2 days ago

    Monetizing lies about the deaths of children and attacking grieving parents is among the most disgusting right-wing grifts I’ve seen, and that’s some really steep competition.

    • kylie_kraft@lemmy.world
      261·
      2 days ago

      Seriously. How are civil judgements so laughably toothless that Jones was able to keep broadcasting on Infowars for years after the ruling, keep selling his snake oil, not pay a cent of the judgement against him, and now have multiple new channels across platforms? This is not someone who should be a free man, let alone allowed to keep his bullshit media empire.

      • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
        141·
        2 days ago

        He was able to continue broadcasting because his entire net worth is tied up in Infowars, so the only way for the families to get the money they’re owed is to extract it from Infowars. Basically, he’s more or less obligated to keep the business running so that the new owners (the Sandy Hook families) can squeeze some kind of value out of it.

        This comes down to the fact that what they won was a monetary judgment, rather than some kind of injunction against Jones having a platform. I’m sure the families would have been happy with either, but the latter is much harder (if not impossible) to pull off because it runs afoul of the first amendment. But just piledrivering someone’s business with debt is fine.

        And yes, it’s gone on for as long as it has because Jones has been able to consistently tie things up in court. That’s one of those double edged swords. It sounds bad when Jones is the defendant, but imagine if we were talking about a queer podcast being sued by JK Rowling. Then we’d want all the legal protections in the world. The knife cuts both ways.

        Obviously, in a sane world the families wouldn’t have to sue to get him off the air because there would be things like hate speech laws to stop him doing this shit in the first place, but America isn’t a big fan of those.

        • Mirshe@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 day ago

          The issue is that’s not NECESSARILY true. Jones is a co-owner in multiple companies that sell that snake oil.

  • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    25·
    2 days ago

    In the Onions plea to not stall the turnover they cited how Jones continued to pedel the very same narrative that was ruled criminal from the platform the court refused to hand over in proper time. If any kind of domestic terrorism comes from this the fault lies squarely on the US Criminal Punishment system.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      2 days ago

      Alex Jones advocates for violence three times before breakfast. Like, I’m not saying it’s OK, but calling this “startling” is ridiculous. He literally does shit like this every single day.

    • meejle@piefed.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      I didn’t read this one, but the MS NOW article someone posted said he spent part of his final show selling knives with “Liberty or Death” engraved on them.

      Hmm, I wonder what those might end up being used for.

  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    oh no anyway :: width=50%

    Seriously, lashing out defiantly like a petulant toddler is all he’s been doing for decades. There’s nothing “startling” here, his reaction was as predictable as the sun going down tonight.

  • KC_Royalz@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 days ago

    If he could have a stroke and heart attack at the same time on air so I could watch it over and over again that would be awesome