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Summary

Alex Jones has sued Sandy Hook families and The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, alleging a conspiracy in their joint $1.75M bid to acquire Infowars during a bankruptcy auction.

Jones claims their bid unfairly appeared more valuable due to the families waiving portions of their payout, benefiting other defamation victims.

The bankruptcy trustee dismissed the allegations as baseless. Sandy Hook families vowed to hold Jones accountable, while the auction process faces judicial scrutiny over transparency.

A hearing is scheduled for November 25. Jones owes over $1B in defamation damages.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago

God this guy is a piece of shit. Actually, I take that back. He's not a piece of shit. He's the whole pile of shit.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 hours ago

Careful, Alex. By the time you're done you might owe another billion to them, considering your thin knowledge of how anything works ever.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

Come on dude, take the L.

[–] [email protected] 222 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

And it’s going to go nowhere. This is just the latest in Alex’s decade+ campaign of harassment against these people.

There was nothing wrong let alone illegal about the auction or the circumstances of The Onion’s win. He’s just butthurt that his little scheme to have Elon and Roger Stone buy infowars and give it back to him didn’t work.

[–] iAmTheTot 48 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

You have infinitely more confidence is the justice system than I do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

This is still a bankruptcy case and that's pretty apolitical.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I have great faith in a justice system. Whatever the US has now, though, I'm pretty skeptical that it'll do anything in favor of the people and not the rich.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 hours ago

This is just the latest in Alex’s decade+ campaign of harassment against these people.

Can’t they just sue him back because he is basically doing what he did in the first place and got fucked over to begin with?

[–] [email protected] 150 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

For a guy that owes 1B he sure seems to have a lot of money left.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 hours ago

He signed most of his assets to his dad.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 hours ago

I’m sure he’ll spend it all to make sure they don’t get any if he’s got the opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 hours ago

What an insufferable piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

He's just going to keep suing and suing for every step to try to wear everyone down.

Curious if they'd be able to sanction him as a Vexatious litigant, or if that would go too far in denying him his legal rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexatious_litigation

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

If the judges had any propriety for the rule of law they'd just start holding his lawyers in contempt for every new lawsuit they try to bring forth. If he has no one to represent him, the house of cards comes down.

But we don't have a justice system, we have a legal system full of politically appointed judges who spend their entire careers trying to dismantle the country.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Calling this a "Frankenstein bid" is the closest Alex Jones has ever gotten to reading a work of classic literature.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

That reminds me, Alex Jones talks about Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke a lot, in fact, his belief that aliens are demons is plagiarized from it. But the funny thing is, there's a searchable archive of transcripts for all his shows. And if you search for "Childhood's End", the first time he ever mentioned it was a week after the SyFy channel aired their three-part miniseries in 2015. So he's clearly never actually read the novel, despite regularly talking about how much he loves it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, it's been since high school that I read that book admittedly, but wasn't it kinda reversed, where concepts of demons are in universe subconsciously inspired by the appearance of the aliens, rather than the aliens themselves being demons?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Yes, but Alex Jones has the media literacy of a bowl of mashed potatoes. He picks and chooses what he likes from movies and tv shows to shape his conspiracy theories and ignores the rest. It’s a point that’s discussed often on the Knowledge Fight podcast. (Which is devoted to debunking infowars) He’s constantly missing the point of the media he claims to love.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Ok so I'll sue Alex Jones and then he can sue me, then the families can sue him for suing me, then you guys can sue the families for suing him and he can sue you guys for liking pineapple pizza, then I can sue the universe for creating all this stupidity.

That's how the law works right?

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

A real frood.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

He's a frood who really knows where his towel is.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Go the fuck away and die already you fat conspiracist clown.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Hey now, no need to body shame the conspiracy clown. That fascist grifter has plenty of things we can criticize without acting like Republicans.

Like how he's an extremely pathetic bigot who keeps making up obviously fake anecdotes about his favorite scapegoats fearing him and everyone else adoring him wherever he goes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

If he wins he gets money from the families so that he can use that money to pay back the families

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Could the families use this to generate infinite payouts? I think so.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

This. Fucking. Guy.