Joe was also on Alex Jones show for 9/11, so they've known each other for a pretty long time. Just back then Joe was just a buddy and not someone he could take that much advantage of. In addition, Joe pushed back more back then, but was still somewhat problematic anyway.
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I saw... killing joke? Whatever movie was made off of that. The Batman Batgirl Makeout was completely unnecessary and more than a bit disturbing.
Mind you, that was only American artwork. Original Japanese:
I scrolled past before I realized that reference wasn't really intended for humans.
I grew up JW, and their meetings were very structured and organized. They do sometimes show videos and such, but a congregation is organized around not one pastor or anything but a whole group of them, any of who could do the main Sunday surmon (and I have seen subs often enough). They also have "ministerial servants" who are I guess basically elders(pastors I guess?) in training, and they often handled a lot of stuff too.
As someone mentioned, gyms. I biked to work at one of my previous places, and if I wanted to shower, I'd head to the on campus gym. That gym had stalls, so theoretically ou could talk in the shower, though I never did.
In comparison it's wildly different, and some of the comments to make are massive spoilers. I will say the difference in "sacrifice" is much better, as the first betrays some built in concepts, treats one of the childhood friends as disposable, and doesn't really let the main character grow.
In brotherhood they call out some of what I said, plus many more characters have much more enjoyable personalities, even some of the pieces of shit like Kimbley(at least he had principles, insane as they were). I like the homunculi better too, even if they were trying to go for a more emotional and artsy thing. Their father is also has far better reasons in Brotherhood for being absent.
I feel like the first anime tried to tug the heartstrings and/or focus solely on the brother relationship too much. I also hated what was done to Rose for what appeared to be no reason but to make things more emotional.
Brotherhood intentionally skipped over a bit in the start, since people most likely had seen it. Not enough for me to recommend watching the entire older anime though. Maybe up to a certain rain moment.
Alex Jones has been freaking out about FEMA since at least the Obama years, including Walmart. They've been reusing old stuff for a long time now. His bird flu, ebola, and covid coverages have been similar over the decades to, always antivax and exaggerated. With Civid, he finally had a leader who did the wrong things to address it so he got to milk it far more.
As others mentioned, it does look kinda ridiculous in person. Driving home Sunday with my sister we saw one, pointed and both laughed/chuckled to each other. I wasn't looking at the driver so dunno if they noticed, but if they were looking at our faces as we passed they might have been able to notice, and it was just a natural reaction, not meant to have the owner notice in an effort to mock or anything.