r/KnowledgeFight

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Holy shit 😂

And I see my coworker sitting the break room watching his phone. As I walk in and pause the episode I keep hearing Alex and think I’m having a mental brake till I realized it’s coming from my co-worker. I say to them hello and I didn’t know you listened to Alex Jones hoping he says something like “he fucking stupid I just watch for the craziness” but no it’s “ I don’t usually, just nothing interesting is on prison planet right now so I catching up an Alex”. So he actually likes prison planet more then Alex, I forget people actually PJWs (hates SJWs) and the other “reports” there seriously lol.

I’ve been listening since the dawn of the pod, so the guys’ announcement last week really hit me hard. There have been few things in my life as consistent and longstanding as Knowledge Fight, and I’ve been struggling to find something else that scratches the nihilist itch and calms it with an analytical but perfectly humorous dissection of the crazies inching their way from the fringes to the center of our society.

I guess it will be no surprise to the Wonks that the only logical next move was to go back to the beginning and do it all again. I’ve never even considered re-listening

To hear the then-current events discussed is both alarming and cathartic, but the foresight the guys have is so validating.

In one of the early episodes (maybe Episode 7 with Tyler Snodgrass filling in as “Guest Jordan”) they discuss the complex nature of humorously covering a person like Alex and his awful takes and despicable ethics, many of which are really disgusting and Dan is extremely conscious of the line between coverage and co-signing. At one point Dan says that if Alex ever brings up Sandy Hook on his show again, Dan doesn’t know how they’ll handle it on KF because while people should know what a piece of shit Alex is for what he’s done to the families of SH victims, he doesn’t want to perpetuate the damage Alex causes every time he brings up Sandy Hook, and also there’s nothing funny about it so that doesn’t work well for the format of the show.

Of course, Future Wonks know how THAT scenario panned out. And Past Dan was absolutely right - when that topic did eventually come up again on Alex’s show, covering it would require its own format…though I can’t imagine he expected that format would involve witnessing the depositions firsthand and reporting on them in depth as a recognized expert on Alex’s career.

Okay, enough yappin’ I’ve got a 3 hour episode about Alex’s appearance on Joe Rogan to get through.

Now bring in the dancing robots!

... and I don't remember how the topic came up, but I found out this friend who is around my age (elder Gen Z, very progressive, well educated lesbian) had never heard of Alex, or IW, or even The Onion. So I get to explaining to her who Alex is, who Dan is, talking about the lawsuit, and I mention him transferring his inventory to his dad's shop to avoid bankruptcy seizure.

As soon as I tell her about the name of the storefront, she immediately has the same exact thought that so many wonks had, and she's delighted to know that she's not the only one who thought of Dr. Jones's big naturals.

I love Baltimore so much

In Josh Whatshisputz’s book “The Madness of Believing”, towards the very end he mentions selling movie rights to his story to DiCaprio’s studio and having Jonah Hill play Alex Jones. Was this a very dry joke I’m too dumb to catch?

Fucking hell. How do we beat them? Suggestions welcome...

Of course "globalist" = "Jewish" is easy as hell to figure out. The Great Replacement theory is trotted out on his show a million times. Clearly his show has always been racist, but the extent of it is crazy.

What I've missed is that Alex Jones has been advocating for a white-ethno state the whole time and Trump was the only candidate using the same coded language as him and the only GOP president to act on on it. In other words, he wasn't just being a reactionary, he was recruiting/building towards a movement. Of course he hated W and Jeb, they actually supported immigration.

The answer to 2026 is 1776 if you want to bring America back to a time where a white guy could own other people. Native Americans were routinely cleared out of territory by any means possible and the culture was oppressively patriarchal and church oriented. 1776 America is basically the wet dream of guys like Alex Jones. It's a nightmare for everyone else. 1776 is just code. Isn't it strange the Jan. 6 fund is exactly for $1.776 billion? (reading this yesterday triggered this idea).

Also, there was no federal religion but in 1776 you could be fined in Virginia for not going to church. This faded out but the 14th Amendment did not exist, which forces the states to follow most of the Bill of Rights. I don't know if AJ even knows this fact, but 1776 America was full of people that were religious weirdos, no-holds barred capitalist types, people that would rather starve in America than be poor in England, and people that otherwise would have been hanged/spent the rest of their life in prison but for coming to the colonies. It's a weird time. A time where CryptoBros, AnCap and Libertarian types would probably fit in just fine.

There's an episode into the investigation into why AJ went with Trump (13 episodes in to this series maybe) where he admits a little tyranny is okay if the tyrant is on your side. So clearly, his constant claim that a one world government would usher in tyranny is just bullshit. No, the real issue for him is that in a one-world government you can't "send them back."

White Identity folks will often say that ethnic groups should have their own lands. "I'm not racist but I think all countries should be like Japan, and not a melting pot." But in a UN controlled whatever world, that can't happen. So of course Jones liked Trump because Trump swims in the same waters. These men just hate living in a multicultural world but try to sound like they don't. Trump is having a harder and harder time with this due to dementia, and now Alex Jones is dropping the act little by little on his own, but that's really what his whole attack on "globalism" is. His whole 30 year show was just putting a veneer on hardcore racist beliefs and tricking his audience to go along with it.

Anyway, if you've made this far, thanks for your time. I know this is a rant and that most of you probably figured this out a long time ago. It just hit me like a ton of bricks this morning that I've been thinking of InfoWars as reactive racism instead of racist advocacy and mobilization.

It's a weird feeling when old enemies appear.

Although I knew they wouldn't, part of me was quietly hoping they would see the reaction and feel the energy of the live crowd and decide to continue the show with a few tweeks. But listening to it, it felt like a perfect ending, the hosts celebrating the culmination of nearly a decade worth of work with the community they cultivated. They made it very clear this was the end, and it brought a certain sense of closure and acceptance that this was the right call. I've been really trying to keep my own parasocial reactions in check, as I have seen one or two unhinged takes since the announcement, but I feel at peace now. For some context, I'm a truck driver and listen to so so many podcasts at work, and when such a prolific part of my routine gets disrupted- especially when Dan's relentless research meets a niche interest of mine- it really does shock the system. Hopefully some of you out their felt a similar sense of closure from the live show.

… listen to the final ep.
I just can’t. Would make it feel too real that it’s over.