Quote: (01-08-2013 03:15 AM)IQVX Wrote:
Ha, never thought about that one but I can see why it's talked about. A conspiracy to discredit conspiracy theorists and therefore conspiracy theories. I do find it funny however, because here you have this guy (Alex Jones) with a bunch of controversial views and ideas on various conspiracies, who gains some prominence and becomes a semi-mainstream (dare I say establishment) figure, and suddenly he's getting accused of being part of a conspiracy. The logic of these conspiracy theorists are literally self-defeating. They are so quick to jump on anyone/anything that is mainstream, that they'll even accuse one of their own. I don't know and can't know if they're wrong about their many views, but I do know that there are deep logical flaws in their thinking and this is one of them.
Sure, it is ironic and seems self-defeating, and I saw that coming when I mentioned it. lol But his behavior is pretty ridiculous. Also, it's kind of shortsighted to act like all people who believe in conspiracy theories are represented by Alex Jones. He's obviously an extremist and as the theory I mentioned suggest, many are not for him. "Conspiracy theoriists" is a vague term anyhow that covers a lot of ground.
The danger is that the populace does see his behaviur as representative of anyone who believes in any of these ideas, just as you did. That's what really scares a lot of people.
And even if he's not a pawn, he still got pawned. I guarantee 100% that Piers and the producers knew what they were doing when they put his spazzing ass out there with Piers to hang himself.
They were planning on linking him, who is already supposed to be the "spokeperson" for conspiracy theories, to gun control, and in doing so leveraging his behavior to give gun control a bad name.
And it worked.
Notice how calm Piers was during the interview. he's never like that. He just sat there and played Alex like a flute. When Larry Pratt was up there with rational arguments about gun control and a calm demenour he sure wasn't so accommodating.
Their whole intention was to let Alex spaz and paint gun rights advocates with a brush. Not that it took much.
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I don't know and can't know if they're wrong about their many views,
I hope to God they are wrong about the world works.
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