• dwemthy@lemdro.id
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    14 days ago

    His father, who is/was in charge of HR at Info Wars?
    His father, the CIA dentist!?
    His father, who was once declared the smartest boy in all of Texas!!?

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    of course his father is a gifting pill-pusher.

    being an asshole scam artist is apparently a family industry.

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      Alex Jones’ parents are member of the John Birch Society, and his dad not only helped Jones get InfoWars off the ground, he is also part owner of the trust that is the owner of Free Speech Systems (the parent company of InfoWars).

      That shit apple didn’t just not fall far from the shit tree, it fell straight fucking down.

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        15 days ago

        It’s less that I’m surprised and more I just never cared to look.

        If their ancestors knew they’d spawn those fuck faces; they’d have written evolution off as a bad idea and stayed in the trees.

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          14 days ago

          Actually, Alex Jones believes that he IS his ancestors. How that’s supposed to work with at least one of his parents still alive, I have no idea 😄

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            14 days ago

            Generic memory. He lifted it straight from Dune specifically, though it’s a common enough trope.

            In Dune you have access to your parents’ memories up to the point of conception. At one point Paul is talking to his mother in real life and has his mother in his head at the same time.

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              up to the point of conception

              So it cuts off right as your dad ejaculates? Or the fusion of the gametes to give rise to a zygote?

              Either way, too much erect dad penis in your memory, if you ask me 😬😆

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                14 days ago

                Presumably it cuts off at the moment your daddy’s balls manufacture the sperm cell, which would be a bit beforehand. But you still get all the memories of him at 13, furiously hogging the jergens in the bathroom while thinking about his cousin’s nip slip at Easter dinner or whatever.

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          To quote Douglas Adams:

          and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans.

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    14 days ago

    “The family suppliments business” It’s like watching a movie about about the lamest mobster.

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      15 days ago

      He’s not transferring his assets or the assets of his company. He’s just urging people who would have bought products from him to buy products from his dad. I think that that’s legal.

      I don’t think that “diverting assets”, which the article used, is the right term here.

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        Free Speech Systems is out of bankruptcy court now, though. The Sandy Hook plaintiffs asked the court to either change the bankruptcy from a reorganization to a liquidation or dismiss the case. The judge concluded it was in the best interests of everyone involved to dismiss it and allow the SH plaintiffs to move forward in state courts towards collecting.

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    15 days ago

    I saw the before and after pics of Alex Jones after using supplements. They totally work, yup.