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RE: Alex Jones admits he's only joking & should not be taken seriously
April 18, 2017 at 10:13 pm
Even if he were serious he would still be a joke
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RE: Alex Jones admits he's only joking & should not be taken seriously
April 18, 2017 at 10:54 pm
I've always seen him as a character. His show never fails to make me laugh.
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RE: Alex Jones admits he's only joking & should not be taken seriously
April 19, 2017 at 2:35 am
(April 18, 2017 at 10:54 pm)Aegon Wrote: I've always seen him as a character. His show never fails to make me laugh.
I file Rush Limbaugh in the same category -- a buffoon playing to his audience's weaknesses.
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RE: Alex Jones admits he's only joking & should not be taken seriously
April 19, 2017 at 11:25 am
(April 19, 2017 at 2:35 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (April 18, 2017 at 10:54 pm)Aegon Wrote: I've always seen him as a character. His show never fails to make me laugh.
I file Rush Limbaugh in the same category -- a buffoon playing to his audience's weaknesses.
One of my brothers was watching Rush Limbaugh when I came to visit (years ago), and I heard Rush talking about "...Obama's totalitarian regime...". Crazy stuff, and people eat it up.
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RE: Alex Jones admits he's only joking & should not be taken seriously
April 19, 2017 at 11:33 am
(April 19, 2017 at 11:25 am)Fireball Wrote: (April 19, 2017 at 2:35 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I file Rush Limbaugh in the same category -- a buffoon playing to his audience's weaknesses.
One of my brothers was watching Rush Limbaugh when I came to visit (years ago), and I heard Rush talking about "...Obama's totalitarian regime...". Crazy stuff, and people eat it up.
As far as I know, my Dad isn't a fan of either, but he ate up all of the "Obama wants to take all your guns away" rhetoric. You would think his education would provide some prophylaxis from this kind of bullshit, but as Dad earned a Ph.D in marine biology, perhaps not. It appears to me that there's a demographic that's just prone to paranoia (I'm using "paranoia" in a colloquial sense, not clinical).
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RE: Alex Jones admits he's only joking & should not be taken seriously
April 19, 2017 at 1:57 pm
(April 19, 2017 at 11:25 am)Fireball Wrote: (April 19, 2017 at 2:35 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I file Rush Limbaugh in the same category -- a buffoon playing to his audience's weaknesses.
One of my brothers was watching Rush Limbaugh when I came to visit (years ago), and I heard Rush talking about "...Obama's totalitarian regime...". Crazy stuff, and people eat it up.
One time driving to work and listening to Limbaugh's show, I heard him assert that marine vegetation worsened global warming because they "released greenhouse gases" in respiration.
I about lost my liver laughing so hard.
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RE: Alex Jones admits he's only joking & should not be taken seriously
April 19, 2017 at 2:07 pm
(April 18, 2017 at 8:44 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: So, blame the victim for being defrauded? Awesome.
If you're dumb enough to give your money to Alex Jones... um... yea... your fault.
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RE: Alex Jones admits he's only joking & should not be taken seriously
April 19, 2017 at 6:04 pm
There is research that shows that conservatives have a stronger fear reaction than liberals. This has actually been known for quite awhile.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the...tudy-finds
In itself, this is neither a positive nor a negative as sometimes it may be bad NOT to be fearful.
However, think about what this means if you want to manipulate a large group of people. Seriously give this some thought.
The right wing politicians and the right wing media absolutely rely on this psychological difference in order to stoke fears with nonsense like that spewed out by Jones, Limbaugh, Fox news, etc... knowing that the fearful don't have any natural defenses against this kind of fear mongering.
It's an easy strategy for the cons to follow and it surely is getting the results they want.
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RE: Alex Jones admits he's only joking & should not be taken seriously
April 19, 2017 at 6:13 pm
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RE: Alex Jones admits he's only joking & should not be taken seriously
April 19, 2017 at 7:05 pm
(April 19, 2017 at 2:07 pm)AceBoogie Wrote: (April 18, 2017 at 8:44 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: So, blame the victim for being defrauded? Awesome.
If you're dumb enough to give your money to Alex Jones... um... yea... your fault.
While ignorance is often willful, rarely is stupidity. It's pretty closed-minded of you to blame the victim for being stupid.
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