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

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      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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        “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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        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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    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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    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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      Agreed, not sure why the mustache is the focus. For instance, Oliver Hardy is a famous comedian with an iconic toothbrush mustache. Charlie Chaplin as well. I guess if you’re going to sport a toothbrush mustache, get yourself a black derby and never, ever take it off. Pretty sure Jones doesn’t own a derby, though.

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    “Hitler was a very kleptocratic, totalitarian, megalomaniacal individual.”

    Remind you of anyone?

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

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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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      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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        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.