Following his trial for defamation of the families of the children and school staff killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is using Valve Corp.’s Steam, the world’s largest digital distribution platform for PC games, to sell an Infowars-themed video game. Jones claims to have earned hundreds of thousands in revenue from the video game, yet he has refused to pay the Sandy Hook families. Alex Jones: NWO Wars also mirrors and cartoonishly repackages the conspiracy theorist’s regularly violent, hateful rhetoric despite the platform’s policies against hate speech.

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    10 months ago

    Valve allows a lot of games I’d question like the Kyle riddenhouse game or whatever that loser is that went across state borders to shoot people.

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        It’s more complicated than that. Probably best he dies of normal causes so no insane conspiracy’s pop up. Even then that’s too good for him.

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          oh no. let his idiot followers think it was a conspiracy. the more riled up they get, the more likely they’ll do something stupid that ends with them in prison or dead. no, let’s stir the pot.

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              i think the next time they grab up torches and pitchforks, the military will intervene. that’s probably our best hope since most of the good citizens of the left are cowards. the sooner we get it over with, the sooner this country can go forward.

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            the more likely they’ll do something stupid that ends with them in prison or dead

            That would quite possibly also entail them killing random innocent people or indoctrinating more. No thanks.

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            That’s not how things work, though. Sure, some of them would wind up in prison. So? A negligible impact.

            Do you think January 6 was organic? If so, you haven’t been following the investigations. It was an attempted coup, and the more people the extremist right can get riled up and ready to commit violence where directed, the more likely the next attempt is to succeed.

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        That’s how you create a martyr, galvanize a movement, and create mass condemnation against whatever cause you stand for.

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          This is simply false. His followers are cowards. They will do nothing. .

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            Who said they weren’t?

            If some fool killed Jones, his followers would say his name for generations, talking about how he was killed by the deep state for telling the truth. They would spread his words further and more than they do now. People who don’t think much about him, or people who think he’s probably full of shit but like to listen to him for fun, and entertain his ideas a little, would suddenly take him more seriously, becoming followers as well. People who would argue against his lies now, will feel uncomfortable speaking out. For at least a while, anyone who tried to debunk his views would suddenly be painted as disrespecting the dead, at best, and viewed with suspicion. What it’s possible to talk about would shift right, extremism and conspiracy theories becoming more acceptable, facts and reason becoming less so. In the midst of it all, some new spokesperson for the lunatic fringe would rise up and replace him seamlessly.

            And maybe they are cowards, but cowards are motivated by fear, and people motivated by fear often lash out violently.

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        i just don’t see how hard it could be to assassinate alex jones.

        “No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban.”

        2nd strike. Extending ban from 1 to 3 days.

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        3 or 4? 1 person is with a $300 Walmart hunting rifle could pull it t off.

        People don’t realize how much one dedicated person and a decent rifle can do, especially when no one is expecting it and the assassin doesn’t care about their future or anything but their objective

        Hell do it dc sniper style, park a car and modify the trunk.

        No one would see anything but an empty car parked down the block from his house or office.