Just a few hours ago I had a small side-discussion about Alex Jones; one commenter claimed that the alt right made him worse, but another said that it was the opposite: he pushed along the rise of the alt-right and helped create MAGA as we know it.
The by now common recipe “if there is a valid counterargument, abuse the person bringing it up and generally just shout your FUD louder” - he was one of the trendsetters.
I can remember when Lil’ Alex was an amusing character to a lot of us. Around the same time, I enjoyed reading RAW and dipping into the conspiracy theorists once in a while and trying on their “reality tunnels” for a bit, just for the exercise.
Heck, I remember spotting Lil’ Alex in A Scanner Darkly and being amused at the cameo. I thought he was doing it for the grift, meaning all of it - his Prison Planet movie, etc…
But a lot of this got very dark and metastasized over time, that’s for sure. And, just as predicted, the right wing conspiracy theorists that were spending decades projecting their fears onto people like Clinton and Janet Reno are the ones that welcome the very worst transgressions of “Big Government”, surprising almost nobody that has been paying attention to these types.
“No data, just vibes” perfectly describes how the conservatives and the Republicans have done science for decades.
Not just science: economics, diplomacy, ethics, health
Just a few hours ago I had a small side-discussion about Alex Jones; one commenter claimed that the alt right made him worse, but another said that it was the opposite: he pushed along the rise of the alt-right and helped create MAGA as we know it.
The by now common recipe “if there is a valid counterargument, abuse the person bringing it up and generally just shout your FUD louder” - he was one of the trendsetters.
I can remember when Lil’ Alex was an amusing character to a lot of us. Around the same time, I enjoyed reading RAW and dipping into the conspiracy theorists once in a while and trying on their “reality tunnels” for a bit, just for the exercise.
Heck, I remember spotting Lil’ Alex in A Scanner Darkly and being amused at the cameo. I thought he was doing it for the grift, meaning all of it - his Prison Planet movie, etc…
But a lot of this got very dark and metastasized over time, that’s for sure. And, just as predicted, the right wing conspiracy theorists that were spending decades projecting their fears onto people like Clinton and Janet Reno are the ones that welcome the very worst transgressions of “Big Government”, surprising almost nobody that has been paying attention to these types.
Like everything else, “facts don’t care about your feelings” was also projection.