pmchugh wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Jones needs the dimwitted left to go after him so the dimwitted right will send checks to defend him. It's a Left-Right team effort that's ballooning AJ's bank account bigger than it's ever been. Anyone who thinks he's somehow cowed, scared, or bleeding money is just another mark for Jones who is, at the end of the day, an incredibly skilled charlatan laughing all the way to the bank. This lawsuit was just another act in a long-running confidence game and he maneuvered the Sandy Hook parents into being his unwitting cutouts.
You sound so proud of your boy Alex as you slate the harrassed and defamed parents of murdered children for being dimwitted political actors. Might is right, eh?
The defamed parents' attorneys just added 7 figures to Alex Jones' checking account. Why would I be happy about that? Why are you?
You egged them on, so giddy at the potential of three minutes of orgasmic satisfaction at hearing a verdict, you don't care that -- after the cameras are off and when the next bobble is shined in front of your eyes -- Jones' bank account has ballooned more than you'll make in ten years thanks to you and the rest of the mob's desire for a gladitorial spectacle.
Everything about this, your outrage at Jones' defamations, your elation at the verdict, are surrogate activities you seek out to give yourself place and meaning; you don't care that it's all a game and the bad guys like Jones are actually lining their pockets playing a villain for your enjoyment.
Dr. Kaczysnki explains this phenomenon:
Some people partly satisfy their need for power by identifying themselves with a mass movement. An individual lacking goals or power joins a movement, adopts its goals as his own, then works toward those goals. When some of the goals are attained, the individual, even though his personal efforts have played an insignificant part in the attainment of the goals, feels (through his identification with the movement) as if he had gone through the power process.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/n ... o.text.htm
The only people who won here are Alex Jones, who got more in publicity and donations than he'll pay in damages, and the parents' attorneys (who are getting a 40% contingency). And yet you - who received nothing - feel satisfaction and achievement because this episode has neatly arrived at a satisfying, Made-in-Hollywood, conclusion.