Conspiracy lunatic thread - people who believe in absurd nonsense are dangerous

[KidTDragon]

Infamous Trump-loving Nazi influencer arrested for battery: report

Infamous neo-Nazi influencer Nick Fuentes has been arrested and charged with battery, the Smoking Gun reports.According to police documents obtained by the Smoking Gun, the 26-year-old Holocaust-denying Fuentes was arrested after a woman claimed that he maced her and shoved her to the ground...

www.rawstory.com

Fuentes told police that he was "in fear for his life" after his "your body, my choice" declaration went viral and led to outrage among many women.

I hope that this isn't just an excuse he gave for attacking that woman.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Doesn't really matter. He maced her, knocked her ass over and stole her property.

 

[KidTDragon]

I think you misunderstood what I was saying; I want it to be true that he fears for his life after posting that tweet. I like the idea that this scumbag thinks he has to live the rest of his life with his head on a swivel because of the shitty things he's said and endorsed, even (or maybe especially) if no one is actually out to get him. I'll be very disappointed if it turns out he only said that because he thought it would help him avoid charges.

 

[wonko the sane?]

AAhh, thank you for the clarification.

Of course he only said it to justify his actions and appear sympathetic to authority. I think he was a little too high on his own bullshit, and actually thought there wouldn't be consequences.

Then he got doxxed.

Conceqences came knocking, and he responded with mace. Between this and the rumours of his homosexual encounter: he's going to live in fear either that the women he's threatened will come after him, or one of the right wing, rabid, alpha male types will gun his ass down as a traitor.

 

[KidTDragon]

Bankruptcy judge rules against The Onion's acquisition of Infowars

The judge found fault with the auction: "It's clear the trustee left a lot of money on the table, or the potential for a lot of money on the table."

www.businessinsider.com

Booo.

 

[Ungnome]

So now some right-wing billionaire will swoop in and buy the IP and give Jones his job back.... Hopefully if that does occur, Jones' wages get garnished for the rest of his life to repay what he owes. Man is a serial liar peddling in dangerous conspiracy theories, he doesn't deserve to make money doing that.

 

[Pocket]

The Onion CEO Ben Collins previously said he intended to turn Infowars into an "alt-media" parody hub.

I'm not sure I like this plan. Taking the name of a real hate-speech outlet that has caused over a billion dollars worth of measurable harm and using it for a parody of one seems...insensitive. I was really hoping it would get bought by someone who plans to just liquidate their assets and then bury the brand forever. Maybe burn the headquarters to the ground and sell tickets to come watch. I'm sure the victims' families who supported this buyout did so because they figured it was the least bad option available but it still sucks.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Conversely: the people that believe and follow infowars are also completely without critical thinking and research skills. They could be sold completely harmless bullshit and bad comedy instead of an endless stream of hate; they probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference and the rest of us get a break from their bigotry and hatred as they unknowingly get programmed into adam sandler clones.

 

[Wheelimus]

In the end I think The Onion still gets it, they'll just have to pay a little more. Probably another 500K for the victims.

At least I hope.

 

[Paladin]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/health/aaron-siri-rfk-jr-vaccines.html

iron lungs about to make a comeback...

 

[Rhinox]

Mitch "The Turtle" McConnell made a statement. He didn't mention RFK by name, but . . . .

Mitch McConnell warns RFK Jr. against effort to undermine polio vaccines

Aaron Siri, an attorney to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., petitioned the FDA to "withdraw or suspend" its approval of a polio vaccine.

www.cbsnews.com

Perhaps we've finally found the bridge that the Turtle won't cross.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Would figure it would be polio. Ol' mitch probably saw more than a few of his grandkids in the iron lung.

 

[Rhinox]

He himself had polio, IIRC.

 

[NovaSaber]

Meta axing fact checkers on Facebook and Instagram to rely on ‘community notes’

News feeds will also be filled with more political content

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Paladin]

Meta axing fact checkers on Facebook and Instagram to rely on ‘community notes’

News feeds will also be filled with more political content

www.independent.co.uk

 

[wonko the sane?]

They already had to cut fact checking when the algorithm couldn't tell the difference between nazis and republicans.

 

[abates]

Remember that incident where the idiot went into Comet Ping Pong with a gun because he thought there was a child sex trafficking ring in the basement because Pizzagate?

He's dead now because he pulled a gun on a cop during a traffic stop:

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article298247913.html

 

[Rhinox]

and nothing of value was lost.

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

Yeah, insurance companies are scumbags, but the conspiracy theorists claiming that they withdrew coverage because they were planning to start this fire are just muddying the waters with their stupidity and ignorance.

When an insurance company says "we don't want to cover you because we think there's a high risk of this bad thing happening" and then the bad thing happens, it doesn't mean they caused the bad thing. It means they correctly predicted it.

The only way to argue against this would be to argue that nobody could have predicted this, and while nobody predicted the exact scale of the latest calamity, wildfires in California happen quite regularly, so it's not possible to honestly make that argument.

As one might expect, the Pacific Palisades wildfire is bringing out the crazies. There have always been deranged and stupid people who believe the government can control the weather. What's new in the Age of Trump is the existence of high-level politicians who agree with them.

Governments have control over your tap water, and yet "chemtrail" idiots believe that the government's master plan for getting secret chemicals into your system is to spritz them into the air 30,000 feet away from you.