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Aswad -> RE: Piers or Alex Jones... (1/10/2013 6:50:40 AM)
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Where I live, I suspect Jones would find himself in a ward somewhere for a good, long while; the upshot of which being he wouldn't be as embarassing.
Insanity is just sad. Well, sometimes, as with Jones, it's also scary. Like all other technologies, guns amplify people, which can be bad when those people are insane, and this guy has tons of them. He's the perfect argument (for a general audience, of which my opinion is, shall we say, realistic, not optimistic) for gun control lobbies, given his blatant paranoia and lack of touch with reality. In all fairness, though, I think it's scarier that the guy has access to the Internet, which amplifies him in another area.
With 262M views on YouTube, this guy is reaching folks he could never have otherwise, which probably does more harm than he could ever manage to cause with a gun.
Just ponder that for a moment.
Assuming his videos are 2 minutes long, then 60.000 man years have been spent watching them, and possibly half of those were spent doing other than laughing at him.
Every single point he wanted to make could've been transformed into something useful in the hands of a sane individual, and instead all he did was underline an old quote Kirata tends to use on here, atrributed to Voltaire although I can't find confirmation of that: «It is far better to have a thousand idiots attacking your views than one defending them.» And calling Jones an idiot would be an insult to sane idiots. Rather have a monkey from the zoo on my side than that guy, I think.
Congratulations to Piers on scoring cheap points by exploiting a mentally disabled man.
What a freak show, eh?
IWYW,
— Aswad.
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