"Jones for a lot of people is considered one of "us". What if he isn't? Is he dividing "us""
Alex Jones was never, from the time of his inception and to now, a part of 'you'. He was and always is 'controlled opposition'. He's a walking discredit movement.
Think about it: Alex Jones, the man who is so fat he could easily have a 'mysterious heart attack' and die (without being noticed) is some vocal rant-aholic who screams at people in a crazy-ass, discrediting kind of way.
Contrast that with the example Q brought up of the woman who questioned the 9/11 narrative. Dead.
How about the guy investigating the satanic cult some months ago who also ended up mysteriously dead? Or any other actual conspiracy theorist or researcher?
And yet, there Alex Jones sits, making profits, getting fatter, and key point here - not dying. And he does not strike me as being smart, so I can't chalk it up to survival.
Good conspiracy theorists are either extremely smart and still alive, or end up dead.
Alex Jones is not dead and is not smart. He's controlled opposition. Operation Mockingbird but for the conspiracy theorists. Designed to be the 'faceplate' of conspiracy theory where we get painted as 'lunatic raving loudmouths who scream a lot' and 'yell communist' at everything (which is very American-centric, I might add).
Proof Alex Jones is controlled op:
1) Profits easily (truth tellers always encounter resistance and legal threats, finances disappear)
2) Still alive (truth tellers often get death threats - I can attest - or killed - I've seen others get killed under dubious circumstances)
3) Very 'acted' with the appearance of being 'emotionally unstable' - most conspiracy theorists are rational, level headed people (they only 'sound' like they're 'raving' if you're reading a post and haven't actually met them in person).
4) Strawman arguments/poorly presented arguments that are often very easy to disprove or debunk (and extremely gloss over the actual facts that would arguably make the argument very strong)
5) Lack of critical judgement in analysing given datasets.
6) Heavy reliance on criticism/skeptism (AKA 'opinion pieces') as a compensation for a total lack of research (see 4 and 5 above)
7) Uses appeals to what conspiracy theorists 'mostly agree with' to 'lumpsum' attack other theories (IE conflating bad or poorly formed theories as being part of the set, EG flat earth, to discredit other better founded theories, EG evidence of 9/11 being an intel operation/inside job).
There's plenty of others. Remember, if Alex Jones has advertisers, he falls under the same problem YouTube has - so-called 'advertiser friendliness'.