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[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 272 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

He's just trolling, he needs to sustain attention which translates to income, now that it's waning and he looks like a loser. What else is he supposed to do -- get an HVAC license? Work at an Apple store? His options are limited.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 101 points 2 days ago (1 children)

100% this.

It's such a well established business model now.

Stimulate outrage amongst sane normal people. Free publicity. Engage with assholes who will buy your snake oil.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Fuck I thought he was trying to bring back the silent film

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

Fuck I thought he was trying to bring back the silent film

He should work on the "silent" part first.

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Selling Thundercougarfalconbirds

[–] CorneliusTalmadge@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wait am I not supposed to want to sell Thundercougarfalcon birds? I mean there is so much eagle those. And malfunctioning Eddie seems like a cool boss.

Or maybe my life is going worse then I thought…

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

No cat food for Bictor tonight!

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

No, that's the Beta Romeo. Not as much eagle in the Thundercougarfalconbird.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 7 points 2 days ago

Office furniture and vacuum repair

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 19 points 2 days ago

I’d like to see him draining septic tanks. With a teaspoon. While wearing that stupid little mustache.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Lol, HVAC license... You might as well ask my dog to become a rocket scientist.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

and... all the hvac techs I know work. they fuckin work their asses off. often in sweltering attics or cramped industrial spaces. jones wouldn't last a damned moment.

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I dunno, I trust Alex Jones to blow a LOT of hot air.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 2 points 2 days ago

"Sir, the problem with your air conditioner is liberals."

"Liberals?"

"See they put this coolant in that will make your daughter gay, we used to have good coolant in this country but I just don't understand how people in this country don't GIVE A FUCK and I said Charlie Kirk stood up and said what was right, and what happened to him? WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM? Where's your daughter, I need to talk with her."

[–] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Gotta point out nazis when you see them, and that's all this is. Alex Jones is a nazi, in a nazi party, as a nazi propagandist, with a hitler mustache to show his nazi allegiance.

All these guys went to Epstein island, right? Or were they too poor? Bottom tier suckups?

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I guarantee you Alex Jones did not go to Epstein island. That was for presidents and billionaires. They would have laughed at him and told him to get back to his trailer park and get some craigslist hookers or something.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 2 days ago

and richard dawkins

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

well he could have worn a clown nose, put a shoe on his head or embrace nudism, but he chose the nazi option. i think that says enough about him

[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago

Well, that and he actually has been an obvious 'crypto' nazi this whole time

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call it "just trolling". He's normalizing supporting Hitler. What he says and does has a tangible impact on the world. It allows bona fide Hitler supporting neo-Nazis to openly support Hitler, then just make the same claim as Jones when challenged

Once it gets normalized enough, they drop the plausible deniability

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 1 points 1 day ago

True that. They're not fully mutually exclusive though. I'm just saying that I think he's doing it more for the attention than because he's decided this is the best way to promote Naziism. The Naziism he decides to openly promote is usually more disguised than this, I think most of even his audience would be more likely to be turned off by this (if they took it seriously) than taken in by it.