Alex Jones ordered to pay $965M US

The loss of young ones in such a violent manner is something that people could empathize which makes it an emotionally charged issue more so than the Pfizer one. That probably factored heavily into the mismatch of the penalties awarded.

I’m torn to be honest. I like Alex’s brash and outspoken nature and he shouldn’t be punished for that. Be as outrageous as you want but once you cross the line you’re going down.

Jones was not right for what he said about those kids and that situation.  But was that slander?  Maybe.  I did not follow everything he said so I cannot say.  But 1 billion dollars is nothing but a continued attack on him so as to be warning to everyone else.

And as I understand it that is what they got him on.  NOT “misinformation” (although intentionally saying something incorrect would be disinformation)  but slander.  And slander means the parties talked about can prove some sort of actual damages so it goes beyond just words.

This is disgusting, forcing someone to pay that much money, regardless if they’re right or wrong. As one who knows someone who has been an actual victim of a shooting there’s a right and wrong way to try and go about claiming that something is true or not.

A showman. Yes. Entertainer. Yes. Exactly.

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Rappers are protected from things they say. Rappers can go out there and tell people to kill and they are protected. Contrast that with any online comment and everyday normal people are oppressed for posts and tweets. We would get terminated from employment. Look at what just happened to Kanye. The sheer amount if inequality and inconsistencies is overwhelming. We live in a charade. It’s more of a dictatorship all the time. The illusion is wearing off.

@Vknid Yeah. Same here. I was wrong. Fooled completely by that. When you look back, it’s just a line-up of non-stop wars. Saddam, Kosovo, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan, now Ukraine. After all these wars, Americans are rewarded with open borders, vaccines, lockdowns, lectured on other religions, and after a while, the double-speak took it’s toll and I have zero faith in the government, media or military-industrial complex. The worst part about it is when your own family members or friends question your loyalty and try to push war propaganda on you. If a person even mentions the term “America First,” suddenly, the concept of loyalty and honor evaporates because it’s a one-way street. The loyalty is on your end, but never on theirs.

An elder senior I know mentioned to me the other day that she toured Egypt, Iraq and Syria, I think in her youth. She said it was at peace at that time and that, in her lifetime, all the “liberation” left those places destroyed, war-torn and violent. In other words, worse off than before. Someone mentioned during that conversation the Beirut Hotel explosion, and I recall my mind-blown by that.  Some of those people end up in the west, and then, the media runs headlines about how “civil war” is coming.   It’s a good comment on your part about Neo-con warmonger and radical progressive because they say that’s exactly what keeps happening. That now, with the war in Ukraine the warmongers like Bill Kristol just keep flip-flopping parties and switching parties,  leaving many to ask what happened to the anti-war left? You can see the puppeteering of it all, how some voices are magnified and others silenced, but either way, we get the wars and the extortion. The Dixie Chicks deserve and apology. They were free-thinkers.