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Finndo posted:I thought the most pervasive truther rant was in relation to the Pentagon, claiming that nobody ever saw a plane there or something. I had someone use this on me one. I pointed out that the Pentagon is right in the middle of a cluster of buildings run by the military. People scamper back and forth between them all day, so many, many people saw the plane come in. People like my father. Then he asked me if well maybe it could have been a cruise missile that my dad mistook for a plane. I told him my dad was in the military for 20 years and had been working for a missile-related contractor for years since, and could identify every missile the US used. He changed the subject to the moon landing. VVV No. This was a guy in one of my gen ed classes freshman year of college. He was a drama major, and not terribly well read even within his own field. It was really  but he pretty quickly figured out continuing to bring this poo poo up was a bad idea, given that we had no choice but to spend time together and I was totally willing to punch him.
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Baronjutter posted:Aren't a lot of assassinations and "lone gunmen" types conspiracy nuts? The unibomber sure had some conspiracy-nut political views. "The Gay Agenda" conspiracy results in a hell of a lot of dead or beaten gays around the world. "Vaccinations are a western plot to make us all impotent and control us!" kills a lot of aid workers in Pakistan. Hell I'd say most "terrorists" are inspired mostly by really lovely religious/political conspiracy theories. The vaccination workers in Pakistan get shot because the Islamists think they're a front for the CIA. Reminder that part of how Osama bin Laden was tracked down was a vaccination program that was a front for the CIA. Not defending them, it's awful that this poo poo is getting people killed AND stopping us from finally irradiating polio, it's just that the Islamists aren't actually crazy on this one point.
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Wheeee posted:I think the point is that by the time we could feasibly make a nuclear-powered car we'll have better, safer options anyhow. If we're talking fusion then it's entirely possible to have a safe helium 3 powered car since neither fuel nor waste products are dangerous and the reaction itself can be totally shielded with just aluminum foils thanks to not producing anything worse than beta radiation. Just felt like I had to point that out for some reason. 
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Grouchy Smurf posted:http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/10/21/color-photography-from-russian-in-the-early-1900s/544/ My god, this also explains America's sudden fascination with itty bitty kitty titties. I don't know how I never realized.
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Martello posted:I also love all the questions. The phenomenon of quotes for emphasis is larger than just conspiracy loons. I hate it so much.
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Strudel Man posted:You'll love/hate this, if you're not already aware of it.  The very first thing on the page was  God, it's been a long time since I've laughed so hard while also wanting to kill myself.
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razorrozar posted:I did specify "if interstellar flight is achievable". It very well might not be, much as the romantic in me wants to believe, and if it's not of course they haven't been here. A possibility I don't see mentioned much is the galaxy could be full of intelligent life and interstellar travel possible, but humans happen to be the most technologically advanced because all the other species are even dumber and more shortsighted. Like, the entire rest of the galaxy is like America in Idiocracy, and our dumb asses (that is, human kind) end up being the voice of reason. 
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Jul 23, 2014 04:11
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GROVER CURES HOUSE posted:SJWs wouldn't be SJWs if they had the threat of force behind them. They'd be the Taliban. I don't follow.
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GlyphGryph posted:
Quoting for emphasis, since people are continuing to act like he's defending birthers. They hold their nose and support Cain because they have other motivations in addition to racism. They are racist AND partisan. Refusing to let human beings, however terrible, be reduced to caricatures with only a single personality trait (racism) is not being complicit with racism, jesus loving christ. If anything, it paints them in a worse light because it expresses how willing they are to engage in blatant, cynical hypocrisy.
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Slanderer posted:This is one of the dumbest things I've ever read in D&D. Conservatives have a lot of dumb beliefs, and racism is only one of them. I'm glad to see someone else say this. I went through a series of discarded post drafts, the most civil of which was "how do you get your pants on the right way?" then decided it would be better to not respond. Does conservatism not exist in a society before it encounters other races? How does conservative opposition to any action on climate change reduce to racism? That last part is actually relevant to the thread. It always boggles my mind when people trust the makers of electronic gadgets, but not climatologists. Like, how can you believe that scientists are willing to conspire en masse to perpetuate a giant hoax, yet still own a cell phone, let alone a GPS enabled smart phone?
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Sep 9, 2014 22:26
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Nintendo Kid posted:Even more so, the Brits, Americans, and Soviets were all grabbing scientists within their first invasion and then occupation zones just as soon as their troops were taking the land. Many of the "high value" people had already been grabbed before Hitler shot himself, and we know from multiple opposing sources that Hitler hadn't left the bunker property, let alone Berlin, for an extended time before he shot himself. My favorite part of all that is Von Braun defecting by having his brother approach a random-rear end private and say "yo, my brother designed the V1 and he wants to defect." Can you imagine being that private?  "uh lemme get my CO."
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Sep 25, 2014 15:45
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emfive posted:I think you guys mean V2 The way I've seen the story told Werner's brother actually said V1. Now that I actually check that had to have been a typo or a mistake because, you know, von Braun didn't design the V1. No idea about the Stalin thing. Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Sep 25, 2014 |
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EXAKT Science posted:From Facebook, shared by the an-cap I keep around for the stupid poo poo he posts: I'd be soooo tempted to respond to this post with links to unedited ISIS videos with the start time set right to the messy parts. Or maybe one of the videos that show a woman with a clearly visible blown-open head but her arms blurred out.
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Oct 6, 2014 04:47
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Under the vegetable posted:My big conspiracy theory is that the incredible quantity of conspiracy theories dominating american discourse is inextricably linked with the dire, shameful state of mental health care in america. There are so many undiagnosed, untreated schizophrenics running around, it's crazy. Schizophrenia isn't the only one. Schizotypal personality disorder produces weird beliefs, though it's more a product of weird thinking than outright delusions. Eg it's less "the government implanted a tracking device in my skull" and more "it is the destiny of the Aryan race to take control of eastern Europe."
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Oct 17, 2014 16:25
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AddMEonFacebook posted:lol DSM-V. ad-hom some more Since you're evidently never going to elaborate on how business interests lead to WW1, could you at least elaborate on this, preferably not in the form of a premise, a yawning gulf, and then the restated thesis? Discussion is a lot more interesting when the people involved present actual arguments.
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AddMEonFacebook posted:I'll just continue to label your posts as ad-homs or strawmans until I see one that I think is serious. In that case I'm going to reply to every single one of your posts with "this post exhibits the fallacy of the undistributed middle" and then poo poo my pants, over and over, while crying.
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Dec 29, 2014 01:19
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Jack Gladney posted:Stop taking the bait for gently caress's sake. It's not like this thread has a lot else going on right now. If there were posts other than AddMe, people would be responding to those.
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Under the vegetable posted:Some guy I know on Facebook posted today about how the moon is an artificial satellite and if we blew up the moon all real humans would get superpowers like underwater breathing and ok just here Looking into this lead me to something I feel compelled to share: quote:The younger Tempelhofgesellschaft was founded in Vienna in the early 1990s by Norbert Jurgen-Ratthofer and Ralft Ettl to teach a dualist form of Christian religion called Marcionism. This one was a part of the main THG/Homburg. The group identifies an "evil creator of this world," the Demiurge with Jehovah, the God of Judaism. Jesus Christ was an Aryan, not Jewish. They distribute pamphlets claiming that the Aryan race originally came to Atlantis from the star Aldebaran (this information is supposedly based on "ancient Sumerian manuscripts"). They maintain that the Aryans from Aldebaran derive their power from the vril energy of the Black Sun. They teach that since the Aryan race is of extraterrestrial origin it has a divine mission to dominate all the other races. It is believed by adherents of this religion that an enormous space fleet is on its way to Earth from Aldebaran which, when it arrives, will join forces with the Nazi Flying Saucers from Antarctica to establish the Western Imperium. source
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Shbobdb posted:I get that you aren't there yet, it will come. For now, just forget about the Illuminati and let's just talk about the conspiracies on the ground that we all agree happened. You're what this thread needed. I want to Add You on Facebook.
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Tercio posted:I'd like all my conspiracy theory delivered in song from now on. Some of the comments are great. quote:ill-informed but lyrically gifted for certain lmfao quote:FACT - Bush used Termites to bring the buildings down! quote:What do masons do? Build buildings. What happened on 911? Buildings destroyed. Coincidence?
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I don't know that this is strictly thread relevant, but with the death of the attention economy thread, this is the best place I can find for it, and it's too dopey not to post somewhere: quote:You can download MetaMath a proof checker, and it’s database set.mm, and it’s book for free. If you read the book, and reimplement say the python version (like 300 lines or so) in a different language (to make sure you understood every step in the algorithm) and verify the database, then you can know with certainty that each of the 18000 theorems with proofs follow from the axioms, without even understanding what the theorems say. This is what I mean with indirect understanding. Source: one of the comments here http://hackaday.com/2015/08/10/defcon-vs-iot-on-hackability-and-security/ To my shame, I was unable to resist touching the poop.
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Illuminti posted:There's an amazing video of a guy explaining how he's being ganag stalked because his jeans are ripped. Gangstalking is definitely one of the weirder ones Relatively sane people can believe most conspiracy theories, but gang stalking is literally classic schizo. Like, an example you'll see in textbooks.
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Illuminti posted:In case anyone was wondering, the posters over at the Icke forums have already identified that reporters who got shot live on TV earlier today as a false flag operation.  That's one hell of a post. Further reinforces my desire to feed Icke's stuff into a Markov chain bot and set it loose on youtube.
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Nolanar posted:Someone linked this over in the pseudoscience thread, but it fits in perfectly here too: The ConspiraSea cruise! Yes, that's the real name, and it appears to be a real thing. Guest speakers include a bunch of loving nutjobs. The main name that jumped out at me is Andrew Wakefield, of fake vaccine study fame. Can you imagine the freakout if that ship sank?
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Sharkie posted:How threatened do you feel when you see black people saying "kill whitey"? Can someone please drop the catty sarcasm and actually make a point? Like, is empathizing with the systematic oppression that motivates "kill whitey" comments good enough, or am I supposed to think they're actually constructive?
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Could you explain what rhyming logic is? I'm just finding lists of words that rhyme with "logic."
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ToxicSlurpee posted:A great many conspiracy theorists are actually just crazy. There isn't logic behind it. I'm serious. A poo poo load of them are literally schizophrenic but not being treated. Also, schizotypal personality disorder. It's like schizophrenia with much milder impairments. Folks with this see spooky significance in mundane events, and frequently have bizarre beliefs resulting from strange thought patterns, rather than full-on "the lizards are telling me I'm Jesus" delusions. Lots of magical thinking and paranoia.
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Spazzle posted:Has batman ever lost to superman? Yes, in The Dark Knight Returns. Vvv that's still a loss! :V Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Nov 1, 2015 |
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twistedmentat posted:You know, that's a conspiracy theory I can believe in! As with so many things, the secret to a happy life is not overthinking it. 
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The AK is the equivalent of a wet, frayed towel against a tank or a plane. The standard strategy for infantry to fight tanks in urban situations involves knocking holes in interior walls of apartment buildings or row houses, running around through the resulting rabbit warren and popping out unpredictably (like murderous whackamoles) to fire rifles or machine guns at the tank's hatches. The idea is to force the crew to button up, limiting their situational awareness, while also forcing them to divide their attention many different directions. This provides cover for a dude to blast the tank in the butt or track with a carefully aimed rocket or missile, or to run up with a satchel charge. So basically in the scenario described the dude is hosed due to being alone at least as much as he's hosed by just having a bow. This is something I don't think I've ever seen a prepper address. They all seem to expect to survive just fine as a lone, isolated homestead.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:And your objection is? If the world has always been a dystopia then the word is useless in the same way as Austrian economist's idea of "rational." It's just masturbation, dick waving over who can be the most pessimistic and who can most venomously condemn all human endeavor. I see it as a coping strategy on exactly the same vein as the conspiracy bullshit this thread is supposed to be about. Concluding that things are hosed will always be hosed and have always been hosed assuages fear of the unknown, grants one Enlightened status justifying smug superiority over the regular sheeple, and conveniently removes any responsibility to try to actually fix anything. Popular Thug Drink: what's your opinion of automated just-in-time supply chains? Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Jan 23, 2016 |
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site posted:Did you seriously just extend a quote of yourself. I'm phone posting and not terribly bright.
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C.M. Kruger posted:Well DARPA just announced they're going to be doing some cyborg stuff. Just wait until the program accidentally releases poison gas, killing hundreds of thousands of people in Singapore. Seriously though, given how wacky the stuff we know about is, the top secret stuff has got to be bonkers. Waterboarding:butthummus::neural interfaces:???
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Stumbled on this today at work:wikipedia posted:The [Order of Nine Angles] promotes the idea that human history can be divided into a series of Aeons, each of which contain a corresponding human civilization. It expresses the view that the current Aeonic civilization is that of the Western, but claims that the evolution of this society is threatened by the "Magian/Nazarene" influence of Judeo-Christian religion, which the Order seeks to combat in order to establish a militaristic new social order, termed the "Imperium". According to Order teachings, this is necessary in order for a Galactic civilization to form, in which "Aryan" society will colonise the Milky Way. It advocates a spiritual path in which the practitioner is required to break societal taboos by isolating themselves from society, committing crimes, embracing political extremism and violence, and carrying out an act of human sacrifice. ONA members practice magick, believing that they are able to do so through channeling energies into our own "causal" realm from an "acausal" realm where the laws of physics do not apply, with such magical actions designed to aid in the ultimate establishment of the Imperium. And that started me on a hell of a wiki chain: quote:Several academic commentators to have studied the ONA express the view that the name "Anton Long" is probably the pseudonym of the British Neo-Nazi activist David Myatt, although Myatt has denied that this is the case. quote:David Wulstan Myatt[1] (born 1950), formerly known as Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt[2] and Abdul al-Qari,[3] is the founder of The Numinous Way,[4][5][6] a former British Muslim,[6] and a former Neo-Nazi. From the talk page of that article: quote:Political scientist George Michael has written that Myatt is an "intriguing theorist," [9] with a reported IQ of 187, [9] who has embarked over the years on a series of "Faustian quests." [9] — I seriously doubt this guy has an IQ of 187, mainly, because he's a follower of Islam (not exactly a religion that attracts geniuses). It would be nice if someone could verify the source given for this bold statement.[6] ISBN 0700614443 page 142. — EliasAlucard (Discussion · contribs) 00:32, 16 January 2008 (UTC) I loving love it. All of it. But especially that talk page post. It's like a huge shaggy dog joke.
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DKD posted:TRUE FACTS from some guy I met: Hm, a racist, antisemitic, homophobic paranoid who blames others for his failed art career. 
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laserghost posted:Well, I hope that there are pagans in Europe who aren't rascist shitheads, but where I live identifying as a pagan is basically a codeword for being a nationalistic hateful oval office who's also at odds with Vatican because of Jewish influences, sprinkled with pseudohistorical mythology. Shouting "slava" and using "the sun symbol" is of course part of the "heritage", not a shout out to good ol' Alfie, silly! Weird. All the pagans I know are liberal, tolerant women, and half of them are bisexual. But then again they're more about Cernunos than Odin.
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blowfish posted:lolicon is a very legitimate means of artistic expression you philistine :weaboo: I believe you mean ephebocon.
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I found this comment on a YouTube of the pink elephant scene from Dumbo. I had to share, and this seems like the thread most able to appreciate it.quote:That is disgusting.
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