Alex Jones, false prophet

[Emmanuel Goldstein]

On 8/4/2022 at 3:13 PM, The Folk Prophet said:

Gotchya. Thanks.

wait, is this true?🤯

[LDSGator]

Just a joke!

[The Folk Prophet]

1 minute ago, Emmanuel Goldstein said:

wait, is this true?🤯

 That a broken clock is right twice a day?

Well...thinking deeper on the matter...I suppose it depends on if the clock is analog or digital.

[Emmanuel Goldstein]

Just now, The Folk Prophet said:

 That a broken clock is right twice a day?

Well...thinking deeper on the matter...I suppose it depends on if the clock is analog or digital.

hmmm, that is a good point.

[LDSGator]

24 minutes ago, The Folk Prophet said:

Well...thinking deeper on the matter...I suppose it depends on if the clock is analog or digital.

As a big watch collector, this is amazingly accurate. 

[Vort]

If Alex Jones now owes $50.8 million, does that make him a false profit?

[estradling75]

Freedom of speech is a right that needs to be protected just like the other rights we have...  Also like our other rights it is not absolute, it has limits.  Those limits are when it comes against the rights of others.  You can't harm others.   The common example given is Yelling Fire in a crowded theater.  Other cases are statements that are harmful to reputation and whatnot.

 

Freedom of speech is one of the few rights that have an exception to this limit.  That exception is TRUTH.  If the Theater is crowded... and it is on fire... then we want you to be yelling fire even if by doing so you cause some harm...  Truth can be harmful to people's reputation.  We can and should tell the truth even if it hurts... If we do not want to be hurt by truth then we should live in such a way that it can not hurt us.

 

Now I have not followed this case beyond what has been presented here.  But if you accuse someone of being a 'Crisis Actor' that is something you better be ready to prove because that is an attack on that person's reputation.

 

In the case where causing others to take action that hurts (aka the Theater example) that can get murky fast, but it is not unreasonable to think that with greater power/influence comes greater accountability.  But that greater accountability needs to be equality applied.  You don't get to go after commentators/talking heads/politicians that say things you do not like for causing harm while ignoring the commentators/talking heads/politicians that say things you do like that cause harm. 

 

It is unwise to protect one group because you "like/agree" with them and strip the protection from those you "do not like/agree" with.  Because the day will come that you find yourself in disagreement with the group you protected. What are you going to do when they turn on you and you helped them become too powerful to stop?  That is just short sighted and foolish

[LDSGator]

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2021/mother-of-sandy-hook-victim-forgives-alex-jones/
 

In a moment of unspeakable grace and compassion, a parent has forgiven Alex Jones.