Whose lives did Alex Jones threaten?
Is this a genuine question? This is HN, so it should be. However, I’m not sure how you can be this far down into this chain and not know about Sandy Hook, since it is the very incident that pushed him over the line.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_s...
Whereas Bernie immediately denounced the shooter and reached out to Steve Scalise. Steve does not blame Bernie for having a deranged fan (https://www.newsweek.com/steve-scalise-shooting-bernie-sande...). Bernie did not imply Steve deserved to be harassed or shot. He has, in fact, asked his supporters to back off (https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/bernie-s...).
These two things are obviously not equivalent.
It's still the case that he changed his attitude too late, only after some of his listeners acted and the escalation became real.
This is an interesting point, because had he done that it could be used against him as an admission of guilt.
I’m not trying to make some gotcha argument that you can cause your followers to make death threats and therefore you had no part. I’m making the case that Alex Jones is an idiot who says things about water turning the frogs gay, and under no reasonable interpretation of his actions or beliefs can I see that he intended to cause death threats to occur.
Incredulity is not an argument, nor does the link you provided have any information on Alex Jones threatening anyone's life.
Well he recently threatened to eat his neighbours!
"I'm ready to hang them up and gut em and skin em and chop them up"