The families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims voted overwhelmingly in favor of a plan to wrap up Alex Jones’ bankruptcy proceedings by liquidating the right wing talk show host’s assets.

The families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims voted overwhelmingly in favor of a plan to wrap up Alex Jones’ bankruptcy proceedings by liquidating the right wing talk show host’s assets.

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
    604·
    9 months ago

    Once you reach a certain level of wealthy, you literally cannot die poor. Sadly this isn’t the movie trading places. Billionaires don’t go fully broke, they’re always allowed to keep a certain level of wealth forever after

    • vortic@lemmy.world
      56·
      9 months ago

      I agree with you. Just a note, though; Alex isn’t a billionaire. Even the plaintiff’s lawyers estimated his wealth at only “as much as $270M”. It still makes me sad to realize how many people he grifted, defamed, and otherwise harmed to make that much money…

    • KneeTitts@lemmy.worldEnglish
      332·
      9 months ago

      Well ya super rich people designed the entire legal system in the US specifically to protect themselves from ever have to face any real consequences for their crimes. You dont have to look much further than Donald J Trump to see how thats working.

      • jaybone@lemmy.world
        10·
        9 months ago

        We never brought them to the guillotines in the US.

        So they think they can do whatever they want.

        Europe still remembers, but they are slowly forgetting too.

        Might be time for another culling.

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
      21·
      9 months ago

      Jones definitely isn’t a billionaire. He owns a glorified YouTube Channel that sells supplements and brain pills. Hopefully he is toast.

        • villainy@lemmy.world
          5·
          9 months ago

          Funny thing is that his base really doesn’t like losers.

          Yeah but they would never blindly follow a loser. All these court cases and elections are just frauds and everyone knows that if you’ve been frauded you didn’t really lose! 100% win rate confirmed, logical consistency achieved.

    • thefartographer@lemm.ee
      6·
      9 months ago

      Yup, usually an African prince trying to hide his wealth ends up giving a sack of cash to homeless, temporarily embarrassed billionaires while he’s on a date with a business mogul’s knockoff’s daughter.