Spyke
lemmy.ml

I've never supported Hitler

Guy wearing a Hitler 'stache as a "social experiment."

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lemmy.world

It was called the Chaplin before Hitler grew one. Hitler grew it to help soften his public image. He was known to be a big fan of American movies. And had them imported during WWII for private screenings, even though it was illegal in the rest of Nazi Germany.

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How ironic, then, that Charlie made such a scathing satirical movie about the absurdity of Adolf!

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I have always read that the style was in vogue among men who had to fight in WWI where the use of gas masks discouraged keeping a full beard or moustache as it hindered adherence.

You can see the shift in the American presidents too.

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lemmy.world

A National Socialist Experiment. He wants to find out how long he can survive in public with a hitler mustache.

Me? Oh, ahah. no. These people need serious mental help, education, and time away from nazi propagandists.

It's the right-wingers that are the assassins, apparently. They really know evil, you know? Beats me, they're cultist lunatics. It's not going to be hard for them to detect the "Totally normal guy doing a social experiment" from their scope.

School full of children > Hitlerized Alex Jones. Where would you rather have the christian terrorist shooting people up?

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Thanks! I was suddenly doubting my reading comprehension abilities before reading your reply.

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quokk.au

He's just trolling, he needs to sustain attention which translates to income, now that it's waning and he looks like a loser. What else is he supposed to do -- get an HVAC license? Work at an Apple store? His options are limited.

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null_dotreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

100% this.

It's such a well established business model now.

Stimulate outrage amongst sane normal people. Free publicity. Engage with assholes who will buy your snake oil.

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Fuck I thought he was trying to bring back the silent film

He should work on the "silent" part first.

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lemmy.world

Wait am I not supposed to want to sell Thundercougarfalcon birds? I mean there is so much eagle those. And malfunctioning Eddie seems like a cool boss.

Or maybe my life is going worse then I thought…

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No, that's the Beta Romeo. Not as much eagle in the Thundercougarfalconbird.

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I’d like to see him draining septic tanks. With a teaspoon. While wearing that stupid little mustache.

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and... all the hvac techs I know work. they fuckin work their asses off. often in sweltering attics or cramped industrial spaces. jones wouldn't last a damned moment.

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"Sir, the problem with your air conditioner is liberals."

"Liberals?"

"See they put this coolant in that will make your daughter gay, we used to have good coolant in this country but I just don't understand how people in this country don't GIVE A FUCK and I said Charlie Kirk stood up and said what was right, and what happened to him? WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM? Where's your daughter, I need to talk with her."

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I dunno, I trust Alex Jones to blow a LOT of hot air.

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lemmy.world

Gotta point out nazis when you see them, and that's all this is. Alex Jones is a nazi, in a nazi party, as a nazi propagandist, with a hitler mustache to show his nazi allegiance.

All these guys went to Epstein island, right? Or were they too poor? Bottom tier suckups?

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quokk.au

I guarantee you Alex Jones did not go to Epstein island. That was for presidents and billionaires. They would have laughed at him and told him to get back to his trailer park and get some craigslist hookers or something.

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well he could have worn a clown nose, put a shoe on his head or embrace nudism, but he chose the nazi option. i think that says enough about him

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Taldanreply
lemmy.world

I wouldn't call it "just trolling". He's normalizing supporting Hitler. What he says and does has a tangible impact on the world. It allows bona fide Hitler supporting neo-Nazis to openly support Hitler, then just make the same claim as Jones when challenged

Once it gets normalized enough, they drop the plausible deniability

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True that. They're not fully mutually exclusive though. I'm just saying that I think he's doing it more for the attention than because he's decided this is the best way to promote Naziism. The Naziism he decides to openly promote is usually more disguised than this, I think most of even his audience would be more likely to be turned off by this (if they took it seriously) than taken in by it.

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lemmy.ca

We're tired of Democrats calling white men Hitler

says white man intentionally making himself look like Hitler.

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Sundrayreply
lemmus.org

You know he wanted to add "like it's a bad thing" to the end of that sentence.

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I mean he literally felt he needed to point out he didn't think Hitler was the worst, which I'm sure you can have a very academical discussion about but it's really weird to just bring that up out of the blue.

"Oh yeah Hitler is totally terrible, horrible. Not the worst though, but horrible I tell ya!"

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Probably took whatever willpower he’s got left not to blurt out “Obama, or the Sandy Hook judge was worse”

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TexasDrunkreply
lemmy.world

I'm a white dude who has never been called Hitler. But I comport myself with empathy and dignity. Well, empathy anyway.

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Same with randomly getting accused of being a pedo in public. This is not a thing that's happened nor have a ever been afraid of. Are all those guys projecting something. Must be.

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Rentlarreply
lemmy.ca

Maybe a little booze too while you're at it.

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This is like those "he accused me of cheating so I thought might as well cheat!!" things

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sopuli.xyz

'It had a wild effect on women'

They used to be disgusted by me when I talked to them, but now they are disgusted by me the moment they see me.

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Tbh there are some absolutely derangenged people out there so I don't doubt this making some women go nuts.

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Or, they used to recognize him from a distance. The moustache changed his look enough that he was able to get closer before they fled.

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IninewCrowreply
lemmy.ca

2025 .... we are in the 86th year of a war that was started in 1939 against the fascists whom we have yet to defeat.

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Had grant and Sherman kept going... Shut up, don't judge me for what I jerk off to.

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we are in the 86th year of a war that was started in 1939 against the fascists whom we have yet to defeat.

it wasn't against the fascists, the germans just tried to invade outside of their accepted sphere of influence.

If it was against the fascists, they would have cracked down on Franco and Salazar and the rest as well.

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The year? Oh it's 6363. No. That's not right. It's 1843. No. That's not it.

........would you believe it's actually the entire timeline that's fucked? Every year is fucked!

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"I am sick of these motherfucking Nazis in their undies, on this motherfucking plane!"

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lemmy.world

Alex Jones: "Nazis? That's just wrong terminology that the left uses to accuse everyone they don't like of being a nazi! Because they're the haters!"

Grows Hitler mustache.

Alex Hitler: "It's a (nationalist) social experiment! If you call me a nazi, then you're the real nazi!"

For fuck's sake. Why do I still meet people that think they could possibly not be nazis? You're not sure? Really?

They're not time travelers from 1940. They're modern nazis, and this is what they do. He's just another nazi propagandist like limbaugh and kirk, except he's got a fucking HITLER mustache!!!

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There's an amusing scene in Iron Sky where a 1940s style Nazi meets some neo Nazis and he ends up positively disgusted and calls the neonazis an insult to their race

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'It had a wild effect on women'

I suppose "revulsion" counts as a wild effect.

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lemmy.world

This is all dog with whistle on top.

It's the same thing as the Elon Nazi salute or speech Stephen Miller just gave echoing Goebbels.

It's explicitly showing support for Nazis with a thin veil of "no u" on top for those who will take an excuse.

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floofloofreply
lemmy.ca

If Adolf Hitler himself appeared today and shouted some furious hours-long speech about the superiority of the Aryan race at an assembly of tens of thousands of uniformed goose-stepping thugs, people would be asking, "was that a dogwhistle?"

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I'm just waiting for them to do some like, DEFINITELY Nazi stuff before I condemn them and take action. You know stuff like shoving minorities in camps, or plainclothed thugs grabbing people from the street, or military deployed domestically, or maybe like a Wessel-esque state funeral, or declaring the opposition terrorists and arresting them. Idk the stuff so far could just be coincidence.

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lemmy.world

the only person i've ever seen actually look good with that 'stache is charlie chaplin. the only acceptable use of the toothbrush mustache is in a silent comedy film with a wacky guy sporting a tophat and cane.

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The only other person is Hardy from the Laurel and Hardy duo. If he didn't have his stash, he would look like a giant baby.

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hectorreply
lemmy.today

Hitler hated being compared to chaplain too. It was verboetan after they took power.

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prolereply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Yeah, great speech and great ending to a film, but I recommend that everyone watch the entire movie.

Not only is it a great satire (that was made in 1939-40), it's fucking hysterical.

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Hitler was confirmed to have watched Chaplin's film The Great Dictator. , but he did not comment on it. Chaplin said that he would give anything to know what he thought of it.

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Soggyreply
lemmy.world

It didn't look terrible on Michael Jordan with the matching soul patch. It didn't look good but it wasn't terrible.

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Jones has been shuffling the ownership of his company behind shells and leading the collections agencies on a merry chase.

It's Texas, so a big chunk of the legal system is politically inclined to drag its heels or implicitly support him. Not surprised to see the case dragging on got years under these terms.

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How is a man allowed to be President of the country when he had multiple bankruptcies?

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Don't ya love the USA? This PIECE OF SHIT should be shut up for ever and ever and ever.....

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piefed.social

I'm still pissed that info wars is not the onion. And now he's trying to rock hitler? The fuck.

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lemmy.world

I laughed my ass off at first sight of his pic in the thumbnail image. Wow, is this rock bottom? Are we there yet?

The stupidity has never been more off the charts in my lifetime.

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lemmy.ml

Yeah we're nowhere fucking close yet. 10 years from now you'll step out of your front door and be knocked over by someone on an e-scooter with a Hitler moustache and a bluetooth speaker playing high-pitched white noise for no particular reason, then get fined because the e-scooter companies bought the sidewalks and renamed them scootwalks and it's illegal to walk on them now and you'll look back at today as some kind of enlightened wonderland.

Then it'll keep getting worse.

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smeenzreply
lemmy.nz

Stupidity has no bottom that it can't stoop below

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I mean at some point crazy people with guns start getting itcy about it.

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If you think about the real reaction from the average woman in the street seeing a middle aged angry looking white guy wearing a Hitler moustache unironically is likely to be fear and alarm.

Now what Jones is saying is he thinks women are "melting" and "going wild" for him.

Therefore the conclusion that must be drawn is Alex Jones is so broken he thinks fear and disgust from women are signs of horniness.

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Idk why but he gives more lukashenko than Hitler. Must be the whole fat guy without much hair thing. Also isn't he worried about insufficiently strained cocaine?

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discuss.online

If Trump is an indicator of anything is that having no shame whatsoever is a major plus to succeed. When Trump talks about winning and success absolutely no mention of how horrifically he failed all his businesses except for the stuff his dad made sure he would not fuck with (because if he loses those then he will truely be destitute) will ever change his perspective.

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lemmy.world

I mean, Trump filed for bankruptcy 6 times JUST on his casinos. CASINOS. A literal license to take people's money and he couldn't figure it out.

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The failure of his Atlantic City casinos is legendary. People at the time were even commenting on the news on how stupid Trump's management and planning style was. Basically making his own casinos compete and cannibalize one another instead of working against the competition.

Also Trump is all gaudy trash and looks over functionality. If Trump was born a generation prior he would have been so thoroughly ostracized by wealthier New Yorkers that he would never have had any business connections to work with. He was extremely lucky he 'came of age' in the 80s when showy displays of wealth started becoming more in vogue.

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lemmy.world

This is a man desperate for attention. Now many times when I'm shaving off the winter beard ... I'll end it with the Hitler stache to freAk out the wife..... However it does not leave the house. Why? Because I'd hate to be judged incorrectly by people as an asshole. This guy though? He is begging people to judge because he needs the acknowledgement and attention. Creep.

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lemmy.world

you guys have wives. so he's just like you but without a wife, he has to show us instead.

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He means himself. Everybody has a past and gets infinite tries at redemption.

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Alex Jones is more like Julius Streicher who also sported a pathetic moustache to ingratiate himself with Hitler. Streicher was virulently antisemitic and spouted all kinds of bug eye conspiracies but even other Nazis thought he was little more than an annoying clown.

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lemmy.world

I was having trouble imagining someone less sexually attractive than Alex Jones, but Alex Jones with a Hitler moustache may actually win. Or maybe covering any part of his face makes him look better, and he should just grow all the facial hair and also wear sunglasses.

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sh.itjust.works

Larry Ellison. Ted Cruz. Donald Trump. Rupert Murdoch. Rudy Giuliani.

It’s an extremely low bar, to be fair.

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RBWellsreply
lemmy.world

Ugh. I'm not even going to try to rank them. Ugly on the inside, and on the outside, all of them.

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shalafireply
lemmy.world

I find even the attractive Nazis hard to look at. Pete Hegseth is an extraordinarily handsome man, well polished and fit. Can't look at him, literally shy away from pics. I give a pass to Boebert though, unless I have to hear her speak. Ick.

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RBWellsreply
lemmy.world

I agree about Hegseth, what a waste, good looking guy rotten to the core. Also what's her name, the Alaskan lady who was missing a few brain cells? Ever so pretty but oof, yuck. Shooting wolves out of a helicopter like freaking Cruella DeVille.

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Ex-wife was laughing, "Hah! He got a hot redhead on the ticket! Obama is doomed!" And yes, my ex was a hot redhead, she knew me. :)

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Would you be more attracted to him if he was bleeding profusely with bruises?

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lemmy.world

In a week is he going to say it's a Chaplin mustache? Right after playing Hitler videos of course.

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Charlie Chaplin, the alleged rapist who married underage girls and was forced to leave the U.S.? That guy?

Yeah, I can see him saying that.

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lemmy.zip

Lex Luther meets Adolf Hitler looks with blue eyes, and they just didn't know what to do. They're like melting.

Self-confidence is everything folks.
If you ever look into the mirror and feel a little silly for any reason, take a deep breath.
At least you're not the clown who thinks Hitler x Lex Luther is attractive to any person.

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lemmy.world

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

That's not what he meant by "there is no such thing as bad publicity"

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"Hitler was a very kleptocratic, totalitarian, megalomaniacal individual."

Remind you of anyone?

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reddthat.com

MAGA is about acting transgressively while demanding everyone else be normie

that is their whole song and dance

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Fedizenreply
lemmy.world

I thought it was just lying about everything that doesn't neatly fit into a conservative, money-is-freedom world view which conveniently includes their own behaviors.

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ceiphasreply
feddit.org

Conservative means to keep the status quo... The democrats are conservavative, the republicans are pure fascists

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Thats the thing though. Conservatives from the 1950s view civil rights and the end of jim crow as a deviation. They tell that to their kids or whatever so conservatism now has become a narrative of all these old stupid things and is constantly being manipulated by fascists. Dems are like 1990s conservatives.

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lemmy.ca

He'd do the haircut too if he could grow any on top.

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P00ptartreply
lemmy.world

I'm just hoping for a mega-volcano. I guess id take a big ass asteroid too, but I'd prefer the volcano.

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I think he's hurting for relevance, which means he's probably broke based on the court cases

Expect to see increasingly crazy shit from him

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He seems desperate for attention now that all of right wing media is following the same playbook

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There is a point where ignoring trolls no longer works. You have to deal with their bullshit.

Alex Jones used to be such a troll. He isn't anymore. If he didn't do this, people would continue to forget he exists.

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Those are the guys we keep being told not to call Nazis because it's "too polarizing".

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sopuli.xyz

he can't stand that media cameras are pointed at someone else right now. imagine giving yourself the stupidest mustache for attention and having to tell people it makes them mad.

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Uncontrolled heaving? Retching? Reverse peristalsis? Hives? Eczema? Purulent sores? Spontaneous human combustion? Missing time due to effects of alien abductions?

What wild effect?

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infosec.pub

Check out the knowledge fight podcast if you haven't already.

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I loved the idea of that podcast but I just couldn't stomach it. One of the hosts is constantly shouting. It's like he doesn't understand how microphones work, and instead thinks he has to shout to be heard by the audience. It's been maybe a year since I tried them, and my ears are still ringing 😂

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Tbf it was a popular style at the invention of the gas mask (because any more could fuck up the seal and leak through), with WWIII possibly around the corner, the Charlie might make a comeback.

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Well neither is a gas mask, so that's hardly relevant to fitting a mustache under a gas mask lol. Unless it's a gas drone swarm I guess.

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lemmy.zip

I imagine it has the same effect as when animals use wild colours to deter predators. Except it's the reverse and instead an easy sign he's a predator.

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explodiclereply
sh.itjust.works

It's a selection filter for the exact sort of woman who would tolerate Alex Jones.

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I imagine that filter is a whitelist with every woman with a shred of self respect, then.

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He looks like he was taking a shit in the dark and got an itch on his upper lip mid-wipe.

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lemmy.ml

It reminds me of the scene in Clerks 2 where Randall wants to bring the term “porch monkeys” back

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Jarixreply
lemmy.world

I loved how actually clueless Randall was about the history of that term

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misfitxreply
lemmy.world

It was the first time I had ever heard the word. There are too many slurs out there.

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And I think that's what's great about it and gives the whole inclusion in the story value. There are things people don't know and they earnestly don't understand why they get heat until they get clued in.

Hard to shift thought patterns that are well established when they don't make sense to you (closing your mind to learning is an entirely different ball of wax as well)

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Growing up in suburban St Louis, Missouri I thought I'd heard them all. And then someone said mooncricket.

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And simultaneously half as attractive.

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler 0*2=0 0/2=0 :::

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4am
lemmy.zip

I couldn’t read the article on mobile because it keeps jumping around as ads load and change

Thanks raw story for making so much money off a Hitler stunt. Surely the there’s no lib hypocrisy in that

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I use duckduckgo browser because I can burn the cookies away after visiting sites. It didn't jump around on my browser.

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I mean a comedian already did pretty much the best set about it you're ever going to get as an entire special

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Hope he carries the cosplay to completion by putting a hole in his temple

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And so a lot of people are sick of it, but they're not very sophisticated and have not actually studied that Hitler was a very kleptocratic, totalitarian, megalomaniacal individual."

Really? I had no idea!

Alex Jones obviously bad mental health issues but lately he really went off the deep end. I'd almost feel sorry for the dude, almost...

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lemmy.world

schizo but brilliant

🫤

Very clever at marketing. If you've seen him in person, he turns the act on and off like a light switch.

But the man's been a bullshit artist since day one.

What a character arc…

It's not a change in character. He just found a bigger set of suckers.

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lemmy.world

All the good uncensored news like “the dead kids at Sandy Hook are just made up?”

What is this apologist nonsense for a gigantic piece of shit, did you have some bad chili too?

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lemmy.world

he was extremely well read and had a very good working knowledge of what the powerful were up to

He grabbed headline news and mashed it up with popular conspiracy theories of the moment.

Jones didn't know anything you couldn't find in the pages of The New Republic or The Austin American Statesman or PBS. He just made an art of cobbling it together with The Drudge Report and Townhall.com, so that people who didn't follow both strains of news figured he was saying something novel or insightful.

Yes he was trying to make a living out of it

He was outright scamming people.

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DarkArireply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

"He was outright scamming people"

The older I get the more I tend to believe this.

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Poikreply
pawb.social

There's a pretty good series of episodes on the podcast Behind The Bastards. Including how he sold high in lead content supplements for years. That actually might be brilliant though, as lead increases violent tendencies and reduces cognitive function, which will prevent his customer base from realizing he's just making shit up and trying to make them mad.

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I don't think he did it on purpose either, but the lead part is true. The Center for Environment Health did test it.

Don't worry, I'm going to die to this fascism too.

You're barking up the wrong tree. Most people in the state are incompetent, not evil. The problem is incompetence allows evil to thrive. I've never supported censorship, but I do support people getting consequences to their actions. Alex Jones has actively supported violence through lies, and actively sold poison with no recompense. If you think what he's going through now is recompense.... I'm sorry? But you're wrong. He's doing fine through his crocodile tears.

Please. Take care of yourself. And whomever in your community you have the power to take care of. We only get through this together.

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lemmy.world

He was never brilliant. Just a schizo conspiracy theorist radio host that managed to find a following in Texas by repeatedly yelling about black helicopters.

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DarkArireply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Well I definitely stopped liking him after he went maga, I used to enjoy his show just for the news really. He would have basically ever good story if you didn't get caught up in the commentary. That guy was like a researcher on meth, in more ways than one.

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lemmy.world

You were into him in 2012 when he denied the Sandy Hook shooting was real and that the parents were crisis actors perpetuating a false flag op to pass gun regulations?? Long before MAGA was a thing, he was a piece of shit. Even when 9/11 happened….he was making shit up on the day of the attacks. The dude has always used tragedies to boost his profile.

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Another lord haw haw who should meet the same fate.

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I'm gonna go on twatter and spew how angry I am that some loser did this. I'm absolutely sure that's not what he wants at all

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Jesus, some people really will do anything for attention. Its just a shame so many are giving it to him.

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Guarantee you he shaved most of his facial hair just before he went live, then finished the rest after he was done.

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Honestly it looks like an improvement but probably any beard would.

What would help more is him stopping drinking and having a discernable neck again.

So much for beauty tips for Alex Jones

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lemmy.world

Too wide for a real Hitler mustache.
Also he's not a skinny vegetarian.
He looks like a guy that makes a mean carbonara.

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lemmy.world

All of those tough guys who said that if they had a time machine, they'd go back in time and kill Hitler...

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In a a few generations it'll be Trump/Musk/Thiel/Altman etc. as the subjects of that thought experiment.

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Rofl. Is everyone in the right wing trying to get in on distracting from the Epstein Files (and the fact he didn't kill himself)? Is that how shithawks try to impress their leaders now?

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He looks like the guy that snitches to the worksite foreman when you take a long lunch break (5 minutes over).

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Back in 2010, Richard Herring's Edinburgh show was Hitler Moustache, and it was very funny.

I can't imagine Jones was being particularly funny though.

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feddit.org

and claimed that it made him more attractive to women.

Well, Hitler was quite popular with women.

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You seem to be at least joking about praise for Hitler, so it seems at first glance that I picked up on something

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lemmy.world

I actually don't see why a mustache style should be ruined forever just because a bad person wore it. Plenty of people just as bad/almost as bad as Hitler wore regular mustaches and other types of facial hair but we didn't forbid those.

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