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Following his trial for defamation of the families of the children and school staff killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is using Valve Corp.’s Steam, the world’s largest digital distribution platform for PC games, to sell an Infowars-themed video game. Jones claims to have earned hundreds of thousands in revenue from the video game, yet he has refused to pay the Sandy Hook families. Alex Jones: NWO Wars also mirrors and cartoonishly repackages the conspiracy theorist’s regularly violent, hateful rhetoric despite the platform’s policies against hate speech.

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 7 months ago (28 children)
[–] ClydapusGotwald@lemmy.world 50 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Valve allows a lot of games I’d question like the Kyle riddenhouse game or whatever that loser is that went across state borders to shoot people is.

[–] Masterblaster@kbin.social -1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

i just don't see how hard it could be to assassinate alex jones. pretty sure 3 or 4 intelligent people could coordinate the whole thing.

[–] drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 7 points 7 months ago

It wouldn't be worth it. Better to humiliate him and release the contents of his poorly hidden porn folders.

[–] ClydapusGotwald@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s more complicated than that. Probably best he dies of normal causes so no insane conspiracy’s pop up. Even then that’s too good for him.

[–] Masterblaster@kbin.social -1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

oh no. let his idiot followers think it was a conspiracy. the more riled up they get, the more likely they'll do something stupid that ends with them in prison or dead. no, let's stir the pot.

[–] ClydapusGotwald@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think my sanity can tolerate more insane shit. Living in the US sucks.

[–] Masterblaster@kbin.social -4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i think the next time they grab up torches and pitchforks, the military will intervene. that's probably our best hope since most of the good citizens of the left are cowards. the sooner we get it over with, the sooner this country can go forward.

[–] docAvid@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

Interesting assumption that the military would not be divided.

[–] Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

the more likely they'll do something stupid that ends with them in prison or dead

That would quite possibly also entail them killing random innocent people or indoctrinating more. No thanks.

[–] docAvid@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

That's not how things work, though. Sure, some of them would wind up in prison. So? A negligible impact.

Do you think January 6 was organic? If so, you haven't been following the investigations. It was an attempted coup, and the more people the extremist right can get riled up and ready to commit violence where directed, the more likely the next attempt is to succeed.

[–] Rookwood@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's how you create a martyr, galvanize a movement, and create mass condemnation against whatever cause you stand for.

[–] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social -1 points 7 months ago

3 or 4? 1 person is with a $300 Walmart hunting rifle could pull it t off.

People don’t realize how much one dedicated person and a decent rifle can do, especially when no one is expecting it and the assassin doesn’t care about their future or anything but their objective

Hell do it dc sniper style, park a car and modify the trunk.

No one would see anything but an empty car parked down the block from his house or office.

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