I was imagining it, as the people who are the ghostly images of the "them" out "there" that are often referred to when people are generally upset at authority or the system, that's not what I was trying to talk about.
I'd say the pirates had it right and keel hauling is the way to go.
There are some folks really upset about us not platforming a maniac. If you feel like stopping Alex Jones from being actively harmful is a slippery slope directly to something you might say, boy, I would want to take a minute and think that through.
Don't read too much into it, it's just a joke, I'm very happy with Jones losing his platform. I thought I could add to the Onion's satire with a bit of my own, but forgot how hard it is sometimes to tell apart humor from Fox News-induced mental illness. Sorry about that.
It is not clear to me what you are saying or what you are defending/ decrying. Ridiculing Alex Jones and the mindset that has run through a couple of centuries of American cranks is about all there is to do to draw some of the venom out. You make it sound like Alex Jones was simply a victim of being wrong about a fact.
I felt like nothing gives away their disconnect from reality as much as feeling comfortable interrupting their wildly anti-human, anti non-wealthy rant to scream, "LEAVE ELON ALONE!" It was a tantrum posted as manifesto. The NYT Best Seller list has always been manipulable; I definitely have questions about this Turner Diaries/ Unabomber rant appearing on it.
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