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  • MBZzZzZzZz@lemmy.world
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    Say about Alex Jones what you will, but the gay frogs segment cracked me up so much. His genuine anger, plus the simplification of frogs switching gender because of the chemicals … What a scene.

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      mid 2010s i thought hes just playing a character and people who watch him treat it as such. i felt that way about trump too, but apparently theres plenty people who genuinely think that way

      • Hormone active (endokrine) substances are a real problem in ecology in particular in regards towaste water treatment. They often can already take effect on ng/l concentrations.

        They are not put there deliberately to turn frogs gay, but they are the result of necessary uses like hormone treatment and unecessary uses like hormonal contraception or use in cosmetics.

        I have no doubt that it was presented poorly by Jones and with ulterior motives, but endokrine substances emitted by human activities are a serious issue.

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        Most of what he actually says is self-promotion, followed by racist tropes, then claiming the apocalypse is imminent. The really entertaining stuff like claiming he comes from a long line of psychics while also receiving messages from God is unfortunately rare.

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      His rants are often unintentionally funny. There’s a guy on YouTube editing his conspiracy rants to look like it’s a Warhammer 40k character talking about stuff that actually exists in the lore and it matches so well it’s hilarious.

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    Yes to the gay frogs, no to bringing back Theresa May to my feed, it’s bad enough we got the piggy fucker back… 😭

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    I am 100% convinced, and NOTHING you can say will convince me otherwise, that Alex Jones was controlled opposition, fed misleading stories or manipulated ones that have grains of truth, but filtered through him to make it seem unbelievable. The gay frogs thing is real, well, not literally, but the chemicals being dumped we’re having physiological effects on frogs, including turning them into hermaphrodites.

    But when you put it through the lens of Alex Jones, who is literally a psycho, it instantly discredits anyone actually trying to expose it as a conspiracy theorist.

    I don’t think he even knows it, I think his handlers are far smarter than him, and feed him stories without him even realizing it.