Having listened to the entirety of Knowledge Fight…
No.
Not a single time.
In the same way a lot of bullshitters are. He’d say 105 things a week, many of them being mutually exclusive, and then when one of the random guesses happened to have turned out to be true, he’d crow and preen to say he was right and play a clip editing out the parts where he’d said all the other nonsense.
Well, I mean, 9/11 was an inside job…
Sure.
It took somebody else editing and producing, but he definitely had something to say at least once.
This is a clip from an odd movie about death. and life. 25 years ago.
It’s an Alex Jones rant. And it’s full of beautiful truth.
Surprise!Alex Jones in Richard Linklater’s “Waking Life” (2001)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VERGx6VjIKAFrogs are fabulous around me.
He said he was “kind of retarded” once, so partially true.
There’s a cabal of rich people, some of them potentially pedophiles who are pulling the strings in society… except many of them are his friends and benefactors, and he’s been awfully quiet since the Epstein files got partially released…
I mean…yeah…but also the Sandy Hook victims won their lawsuit, and from my understanding he doesn’t have a show anymore. He had to give InfoWars over to The Onion.
So, yeah. You haven’t heard from him in a while because he has no platform.
Last I was aware, The Onion’s takeover is (frustratingly) still tied up in court
Not anymore! They’re launching July 2nd, its all over youtube.
Oh hell yeah :D
I hope he’s doing what he did the last time he got taken off air, and just starts wandering the streets screaming about conspiracy theories like the homeless nutjob he was always supposed to be.
Most conspiracy theories get very close to the truth until they make a hard right turn into “I made it the fuck up” village.
There was one episode of Knowledge Fight where they hilighted one single prediction that was 100% accurate, but it was all in a sea of his usual BS that is way off. I don’t remember what it was, though.
Broken clock is right twice a day, but there’s a reason we don’t use them to tell time
A side note, analogue clocks are still in schools, lol.
I mean, they’re used everywhere still and aren’t exactly a dated form of timekeeping or anything even if digital clocks are preferred on computers
The newer generation might not know how to read them.
Could it be, that they are in school to learn stuff?
Not how to read analogue clocks lol.
If the clocks are still in schools, and their schedules are based on time, the kids are going to figure out how to read them.
Maybe think before you call others dumb…
The teachers literally told me that some can’t even read, so somebody isn’t helping them. Maybe you read before you assume, you are the one that said dumb.
Mate, they do. Part of math classes in the first or second year. Source: I’m a teacher.
Since you said mate, I assume you don’t live in America. Some of these kids can’t even read. I asked the teachers.
Analogue clocks are a much better tool to visualise time than digital. There’s only advantages in learning to read them.
My 6 year old learned in school this year, he had homework about it and everything
I was just speculating whether that will be taught in the future. Kudos
I’m forcing my kids to learn it. Both digital and analog clocks have use cases, but the truth is that analog clocks are simply faster to parse.
I don’t care how adept you are at reading an analog clock, there’s no way it’s faster than simply reading a (max) 4 digit number unless you have some massive dyslexia.
On an interesting clock note. Yes, analogue clocks are in school, but at home, kids are surrounded by digital clocks on their screens.
So we are getting kids who can easily reach a digital clock, but are struggling with basics “short hand means hour”
Barely any of them can use a sundial either.
Long hand means hour divided by 5. Cut the kids some slack, analog cocks are confusing. They gotta learn their five times tables before they can consistently read clocks. I remember when I was old enough to understand the concept, but a little bit too young to do multiples of five in My head.
I’ve been saying this a lot recently, but a calculator can sometimes be a clock.
His infamous statement “chemicals in the water that turn the freaking frogs gay” may have been a corruption of the discovery that sewage runoff was feminizing fish because of the estradiol in urine from women on birth control, and other endocrine disrupting chemicals newly found in rivers from human sources.
Yeah, I’ve had some friends in aquaculture and it’s a huge deal and has been for a long time. The bleaching of paper causes it too. He just went on a rant and said it all wrong.
Also, Atrazine (a pesticide that contaminates water sources) turns the friggin frogs trans.
He did go undercover in the 90s or early 2000s (its been awhile) and record part of the Bohemian Grove stuff.
I thought that was pretty cool. Sadly never did anything like that again though.
He probably got his name right.
Almost, probably a bit too complicated: Alexander Emerick Jones, source Wikipedia
He was kinda sorta in a way right about the frogs turning gay
Wasn’t his thing with the frogs turning gay that the government was putting something in the water turning frogs and people gay? Maybe I don’t have a complete understanding of his hypothesis but how was he right about this?
The real thing was that at one point there was so much plastic pollution in certain parts of the environment that some of the endocrine disrupting chemicals in it, like BPA (which mimics estrogen) and certain pthalates, were leaching into to water in large enough concentrations to make noticeable changes in the bodies and sex organs of animals that are extra sensitive to those things, like frogs and other amphibians. Mutations in male frogs where they displayed female traits, etc. It’s a big part of the reason that 15 or 20 years ago everyone started switching to metal water bottles, and the plastic ones all advertise that they’re BPA-free now. Alex Jones took that and spun it up into some grand conspiracy about the government intentionally putting chemicals in your water to feminize you and make you docile so, I dunno, you won’t put up a fight when they come to round you up and put you in FEMA camps or whatever, I guess. At least that’s the basic gist as I remember it. I never really paid an enormous amount of attention to Jones, so I might not be 100% on the details.
Yeah, it wasn’t secret government chemicals like he thought, but regular old pollutants. I can’t recall if it was medication from insufficiently treated sewage, or industrial runoff, or what, but there really was a case of stray chemicals making some wild frogs gay. So he was a little bit right about gay frogs. He just was, as usual, astoundingly wrong about those chemicals being a secret government plot to turn people gay.
Ok that makes sense. Still it sounds like he was regurgitating the findings of a study of frog behavior in polluted environments, and then creating a conspiracy theory around it. How was anything he added correct information on top of the preexisting evidence?
No, nothing he added was correct, he just technically wasn’t 100% wrong in what he said on the topic. This is only notable in that he usually is 100% wrong.
Yeah, but he turned a real problem of hormone mimicking chemicals in the food chain into a meme. Honestly would have been better if he missed that one.
I was thinking this too.
Yes; I believe he said at one point that there’s a sucker born every minute.
