> [Ayyadurai] is a great guy
Great people don't sue news outlets to claim credit for things they say they did decades ago. They sue for royalties, or better yet, shut up and do things. This guy checks all the boxes for a sociopathic fraud.
Great people don't sue news outlets to claim credit for things they say they did decades ago. They sue for royalties, or better yet, shut up and do things. This guy checks all the boxes for a sociopathic fraud.
If you don't think Infowars is a serious news outlet, maybe you haven't watched them? In about 20 years they have had I think 3 retractions, which a propaganda rag like CNN or the Washington Post has to do weekly.
I would wish that HN would have more people who care about primary sources - that is what my academic training taught me. Perhaps if you listened to any of Bannon's speeches rather than malicious rumor and hearsay, you would have a different opinion.
>If you don't think Infowars is a serious news outlet, maybe you haven't watched them
Sometimes the comments write themselves.
> Yes, rights are important, and we must offer them generously. But surely we can agree that Nazis don't have rights?
[0]: https://www.popehat.com/2017/04/18/the-seductive-appeal-of-t...
A fine position on its face in the general case, but let's be real here: if you trust Alex Jones specifically, you really are a moron.
If there's something you hear from Alex Jones that seems like it might be true, double-check it with knowledgeable sources before you adopt it as a fact.
Better yet, go find more reliable sources for your information.
The world is so massively full of such low hanging fruit that you can often save a massive amount of time this way as it turns out the majority of people aren't worth listening to outside of narrow areas of knowledge they directly interact with. Its a completely valid strategy. The danger of course is that you risk ignoring useful proof if what you assumed was obvious was incorrect.
Yet, I don't know anything about Alex Jones himself. It'd be nice if that were included in the critique.
I absolutely agree that automatically dismissing anyone whose news sources don't completely agree with yours is a big problem. But I think intelligent people can agree that some people have proven themselves utterly unworthy of trust.