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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars media platform and its assets will be sold off piece by piece in auctions this fall to help pay the more than $1 billion he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, under an order expected to be approved by a federal judge.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston said during a court hearing Tuesday that he will approve the auctions that start in November. But he said he first must change a previous order to make it clear that the trustee overseeing Jones’ personal bankruptcy case controls all the assets of Infowars parent company Free Speech Systems, which is owned 100% by Jones.
Despite the pending loss of his company, Jones vows to continue his talk shows through other means, possibly including a new website and his personal social media accounts. He also has suggested that Infowars’ assets could be bought by his supporters, allowing him to continue hosting his show as an employee under the Infowars brand in their home city of Austin, Texas.
He’s depending on his fans to buy it and keep it all going for him.
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Patriot buyers lol! AKA Super Dupers
I saw a billboard that read “I’m a former Trump voter and a patriot and I’m voting for Harris” and I realized that I now view the notion of someone being a patriot as them being less intelligent.
I think of it as less than sane. New England may as well have their football team be the Massachusetts Lunatics
Either way, the notion that Democrats should “reclaim patriotism” is fighting against a long-honed visceral reaction against it amongst the folks on the left.
I don’t know how anyone who has any knowledge of US history could possibly be a patriot. Calling yourself just makes you sound ignorant or psycho. “FUCK YEAH! I LOVE A COUNTRY BUILT ON SLAVERY AND GENOCIDE! WOO!”
Honestly patriotism is recognizing those aspects and trying to improve it for the better, it aint blind nationalism. To use an analogy for me the USA is like a drug addict cousin who I am attemlting to help get clean.
That analogy makes more sense, but it’s not just your cousin. It’s your entire community that’s a bunch of drug addicts, and they all hate you for trying to help them, and they think being a drug addict to be noble somehow.
Good work is never truly done, and I dont particularly care if I have to force them kicking and screaming to get clean. Civility was never my strong suit and burning their dealers alive is well within my morals. Which in this analogy is fox, OAN, and talk radio
One thing the “alt right” did is get so many of us to see the difference between a patriot and a nationalist. They might claim the p-word, but they also claim to be pro-choice when it suits them so their definitions mean dick all. They’re flags-on-clothes “MY country, not yours, right or wrong” nationalists.
From what I’ve seen, a patriot wants to work to fix what’s hurtful in their country and to protect social and legal advancements already accomplished for the common good.
But absolutely, they’ve fouled that word up with how often and loudly they claim it.
This does not agree with what I’ve seen of patriots for the entire history of the country.
They’re honestly probably the only ones who would buy it. Without Jones’ “celebrity” propping it up it’s basically just a scam dick-pills company which are a dime a dozen. Who’s going to invest in that?
I’d normally be interested in a job lot of discount media production gear from a fire sale, but I don’t need to taint my home with the bad karma or stale grifter breath surely trapped in those particular microphones.
That was my exact thought. Discount sound production gear is my jam but damn, anything I created with it would be forever stained.
Not necessarily. Kinda like how blood money could sorta be emotionally redeemed if you just donated it all, the equipment could be redeemed if it was used to produce something useful and beneficial instead of manufacturing fear.
“Swords to ploughshares”
I will be the first to tell you that nothing I’ve ever put out could be considered useful or beneficial. Generally it’s just vaguely funny but also kind of sad. At its best it’s entertaining on the right combination of drugs.
Idk I’d love leftist content that begins every episode with “coming to you from Alex Jones’s recording equipment”. It’s an act of purification by bathing it in truth
He has lots of professional equipment that could be better used elsewhere tho. If you can get some of the media equipment for cheap then it’s worth looking at the auction for sure
This is why critical thinking is so vital (and why conservatives do everything they can to prevent people from learning the skill)… You become such an easy mark for grifters and conmen.
Unfortunately, I wouldn’t be shocked if a bunch of crypto assholes cashed out to bail him out.
It is kind of funny to think of a bunch of rich nazis all striving to outbid each other to bail this asshole out, thereby making a bigger and bigger pile of reparations for the Sandy Hook families.