Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nl
    252·
    1 年前

    I prefer to think thusly:

    “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

    —Martin Luther King, Jr.

    But I can certainly understand people’s pessimism, looking at the world around us…

    • fiat_lux@kbin.social
      13·
      1 年前

      That’s fair, I’m not a flat-bow conspiracy theorist, even if the curve looks real flat right now from down here.

    • balderdash@lemmy.zip
      42·
      1 年前

      I wonder if MLK ever read Hegel. I know he got a doctorate so it’s not outside the realm of possibility.