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[–] 148 points 2 years ago (10 children)

The attorneys for Twitter asked to be included on any further information in the case? You're allowed to just do that? Can I go into a courtroom and demand to be included in any for the communication and all relevant further information in a case? Are they taking Jones on as a client? I'm confused how they have legal standing to do this.

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  • [–] 87 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    If I were to guess, and question the existance of standing, my bet is musk was a bidder when infowars was put for sale. My guess is possibly the families themselves objected and asked the court to take a lower bid, that would do what they actually cared about (Create counter messaging to his blowhard conspiracy theories).

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I figured it had to do with the sale of the @realAlexJones twitter handle that was being disputed. I cant remember if that had been settled or not, but I know he was trying to keep it, and the opposing side said it was a business account and should be turned over.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I was born cynical but him making a fuss has other motives but I'm not that clever. Is he trying to become a martyr? He spends thousands per moth, he can afford another set, no? He has hidden money everywhere.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Quotes from the article:

    According to Bloomberg, Murray told Lopez that Global Tetrahedron’s bid was a better option because the Sandy Hook families agreed to waive some of the money owed to them in order to pay off Jones’ other creditors. “I’ve always thought my goal was to maximize the recovery for unsecured creditors,” Murray said, per Bloomberg. “And under one bid, they’re clearly better than they were under the other.”

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    The only other bid besides the Onion’s was $3.5 million from First United American Companies LLC, the company that operates Jones’ online supplement store.

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  • [–] 118 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Back about 25 years ago Jones was very anti fascist. Wonder what happened to completely ignore the actual fascists. Probably money from the fascists.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    The rabbit hole is only about a thousand podcast episodes deep.

    https://knowledgefight.com/

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  • [–] 98 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I hate this timeline, because you just know that Trump is going to give a metal to this asshole before he leaves office, just like he did with Limbaugh.

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Bit fucking late isn't it? It was already sold. To The Onion.

    They might sell it back, tho. For $12 decacillion.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The Onion should sell it back for exactly 1 googol, then pay the fines imposed to Google bey Russia, and finally, purchasing Google with the change.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    For the record the "change" from that deal would be, measured to any reasonable degree of accuracy, exactly one googol.

    It's really really hard to explain how numbers that big work.

    Basically if you had ten trillion dollars, and you spent one single cent, you would have spent a greater proportion of your wealth than that fine would be as a proportion of one googol dollars.

    And just to really put all that in perspective, let's talk about how big that fine actually is.

    It's frequently said that it's more than the entire world's GDP, but that's not even close. Imagine if every single planet (not "habitable planet", just "planet") in our galaxy - all eight trillion of them - was terraformed to support life. Imagine if all of them had a population and economy like Earth. The entire galaxy's GDP wouldn't be enough.

    In fact, a hundred of those galaxies wouldn't be enough. A thousand wouldn't be enough. A hundred thousand wouldn't be enough. It would take 20 million of those galaxies to pay that fine (at the time of reporting; by now its more galaxies than exist in all the known universe, because it doubles every day).

    And all of that would still be a rounding error to a rounding error against one googol.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago

    USA a dictatorship January 20th, the next day Infowars will go back to Jones.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Fuck those fat punching bags. In their mouths

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Instructions unclear. Does fist or penis go in mouth?

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    This rigged trope is so tiring. You lost fair and square

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