Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $4.1 million to the parents of a Sandy Hook victim
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The thing that gets me with this suspicious stuff happening these days, whether it's unexplained attacks (Las Vegas shooting, the Nashville bomb), strong evidence of election fraud, media lies, state secrets, suspicious prison suicide, mass vaccination campaigns that don't make any sense, or leaked email chains from politicians using strange code language and hinting at assassinating their enemies - it's that the media and people in charge completely ignore all the claims and honest questions from the public, and (WITHOUT evidence) call them baseless conspiracies. Was reality always like this? Did people just use to be more gullible? I don't think so, because in the past when events happened that got people questioning official stories, like the Holocaust, the Kennedy Assassination, or UFOs, people in power and professional skeptics at least tried to explain away the crazy conspiracies. Even if it was just a coverup. See Project Blue Book - "That wasn't a flying saucer, it was swamp gas. You saw Venus." They don't even do that now. Now it's just "you're wrong and a bad person, stop talking about it."
Even 9-11 had hearings to explain away the inconsistencies. That was only 20 years ago and I truly believe if it happened today, there would be no hearing and Brian Steltzer on CNN would be calling for the arrest of anyone who questioned the FBI narrative as treason.
Maybe they realized having half the population continuing to believe in "dangerous conspiracy theories" is actually more beneficial for them because it's an angle they can use to attack us in the media and in political campaigns.
Well the big thing that's different is the internet.
How it turned out is that instant access to information means a small number of people are highly informed about anything and can't be lied to so there's no point trying, and a large group of people actively seek out only comforting news that makes them feel good and will believe anything they're told (incidentally they're also totally convinced they are the informed and smart ones).
"They're all nazi white supremacists" makes the comfort-seeking people feel good, like standing next to an ugly person to look more attractive in comparison. Actually having a debate of any kind raises doubt because if it's worth responding to maybe it's a legitimate view, and that makes them feel uncertain and that makes them feel bad.
So before the information era they could put on a show trial/hearing, make it seem believable by intentionally putting on a poor case for what actually happened and a strong case for what they want you to believe, and everybody would watch and the propaganda would work on most people. Skeptics would say wow that case was strong, the believers would take some comfort in their beliefs being reassured.
But now the information is out there, the skeptics know the trial/hearing was intentionally thrown and the believers take more comfort if only one side is presented. So you get Jan 6 show trial which is obviously a total farce to anyone who's watched 5 minute of it because they're only playing to one side.
Thr American government has admitted the UFO were real few years ago and no one cared.