Far-right podcaster and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones reportedly hosted a livestream on social media with "Assassinate Biden" in the title, causing the internet to erupt in calls for an investigation. Independent multimedia journalist David Leavitt flagged Jones' stream on X, which was formerly ...
  • aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world
    254·
    6 months ago

    You make a good point, but I still think that this is more stochastic terrorism from the right. They’re putting the notion of assassinating the president out there into the weak minds of their listeners, who will take that information and do with it what they will. It’s so indirect that Jones and co have plausible deniability.

    Note how they don’t ask if the derp state will assassinate Trump, even though he’s supposed to be its enemy.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
      3·
      5 months ago

      He’s implying that Biden’s assassination would be good for the left, so it doesn’t seem like that would motivate his base.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      They’re putting the notion of assassinating the president out there into the weak minds of their listeners

      While I don’t think you’re wrong, AJ has been talking about the president being assassinated for more than a decade. He was sure Trump was going to be assassinated almost constantly during his administration (poisoned cokes and hamberders were popular options).

      People should stop giving that coked out drunkard any publicity, that’s literally all he wants. Well, that and to sell you all kinds of InfoWars Dr Jones Naturals supplements THAT ARE IN NO WAY ASSOCIATED WITH INFOWARS, even though his dad owns it and sells all the same products and his mom is talking to him about his dad retiring.

      • ZMonster@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 months ago

        People should stop giving that coked out drunkard any publicity, that’s literally all he wants.

        Well, someone was apparently awake during wonk class. Spot on comrade.

    • daltotron@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      They’re putting the notion of assassinating the president out there into the weak minds of their listeners, who will take that information and do with it what they will.

      I do understand they can do multiple things at once even if they can barely walk and chew gum, and I would like if they were wiped from the face of the earth, but I would much rather that they turn their attention towards the president, instead of putting their attention on trans people or whatever racial minority comes up week by week to rile up the base. The president has a large amount of protection on him at all times, the chances that any right wing nutjob can target him effectively strike me as shockingly low, and if they did target him, then probably you’d see something actually happen to prosecute them. Basically nobody else has that same level of protection.