Comment on This was Alex Jones once

toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Pilferjinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I used to follow Alex Jones before he started making money. He was (probably) authentic and actually tried to physically infiltrate supposed cabalic rituals and such.

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  • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    it really seemed that way, but of course i now question everything he said - and i actually credit him for how i ultimately developed that skill. things may have been very different back in those days, but it’s clear now that he was only just rabble rouser without any real goal at the time. sad that he’s found one now though

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• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Did they re-use one of his actual speeches or was he just cast to play this character and read these lines? I haven’t seen the film yet.

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  • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    i’m an idiot. i edited my post and then realized you’d never see it.

    this was filmed specifically for the production. i’m in my 40s now (sucks), but i got big into his stuff right after 9/11. police state stuff during the w admin… bohemian grove was huge… some of his gotchas are still wow (david gruggen?).

    he was a force maybe once? but definitely not now. i think it’s good for people to know where he came from so they can help us prevent where he’s going.

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No sweat, I see two replies! I wonder if he actually believed this any more than he believed anything else he spouted. I’m inclined to believe he’d say whatever makes him money.

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      • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        now? i’d agree with you.

        back then? i think the thought he was really onto something… and i did, too - at the time. 0

        knowing what i know now, a “faggy” party - to quote Nixon, probably wasn’t then what it’s probably become now.

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  • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    as i know it, he was filmed making the speech and they animated over top of it, just like the rest of the film. he isn’t the best part. it’s a great movie involving tons of great animators.

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