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The rioters didn't listen to Donald Trump or Alex Jones. Have you read what's come out recently? Jones specifically told people not to riot and condemned viole

The rioters didn't listen to Donald Trump or Alex Jones. Have you read what's come out recently? Jones specifically told people not to riot and condemned violence. The people who broke in where already at the capitol steps while he was speaking. They literally couldn't have been incited by what Trump said.

tptacek 6y ago
Jones was at the riots. In fact, he claims to have paid for the rally that preceded it.
- djsumdog 6y ago
  > Corrections & Amplifications The conspiracy theorist Alex Jones urged Trump supporters not to attack police and to move to the east side of the Capitol. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said Mr. Jones urged rioters attacking the Capitol to move forward. (Corrected on Jan. 8) Buried at the very bottom of the Wall-Street Journal article. This is his side of the story, but it sounds like you've already made up your mind and don't want to listen to any corrections: https://banned.video/watch?id=5ff8d5530429ec3746ffec53 https://banned.video/watch?id=5ff8d5530429ec3746ffec53
  - tptacek 6y ago
    Alex Jones claims to have paid for the rally that preceded and instigated the riot, the one Donald Trump spoke at asking rallygoers to march on the Capitol. Candidly, I'm not interested in hair-splitting beyond that; my point is simply that Jones is closely aligned with the rioters, many of whom idolize him (as you can see on TDW). The idea that Jones is somehow in a radically different political cluster than the Q people and the Proud Boys people beggars belief; your evidence for that would have to be powerful, and would not be on "banned.video".
  - dang 6y ago
    You've been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle, and have been egregiously breaking the site guidelines with snark, name-calling, attacking others, and so on. This is against the site rules and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of which politics they're battling for. I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

tptacek 6y ago

Jones was at the riots. In fact, he claims to have paid for the rally that preceded it.

djsumdog 6y ago
> Corrections & Amplifications The conspiracy theorist Alex Jones urged Trump supporters not to attack police and to move to the east side of the Capitol. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said Mr. Jones urged rioters attacking the Capitol to move forward. (Corrected on Jan. 8) Buried at the very bottom of the Wall-Street Journal article. This is his side of the story, but it sounds like you've already made up your mind and don't want to listen to any corrections: https://banned.video/watch?id=5ff8d5530429ec3746ffec53 https://banned.video/watch?id=5ff8d5530429ec3746ffec53
- tptacek 6y ago
  Alex Jones claims to have paid for the rally that preceded and instigated the riot, the one Donald Trump spoke at asking rallygoers to march on the Capitol. Candidly, I'm not interested in hair-splitting beyond that; my point is simply that Jones is closely aligned with the rioters, many of whom idolize him (as you can see on TDW). The idea that Jones is somehow in a radically different political cluster than the Q people and the Proud Boys people beggars belief; your evidence for that would have to be powerful, and would not be on "banned.video".
- dang 6y ago
  You've been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle, and have been egregiously breaking the site guidelines with snark, name-calling, attacking others, and so on. This is against the site rules and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of which politics they're battling for. I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html