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Miltank posted:The trump card that I often see getting pulled has to do with the third WTC tower going down. Is there a black and white answer for that? The broken bones posted:There's something powerful, attractive, and redeeming in feeling smarter than everyone else.
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Prester John posted:In the truther movement there are two big, but informal, camps. You could call them the "Alex Jones Crowd" and the "David Icke Crowd". quote:There is an experience the Schizophrenic mind has often, and that is "waking up". Suddenly, all the connections become clear, you can see the world for what it really is. It is as plain as day. It all makes sense. Naturally to the Schizophrenic mind this sort of thing can happen over pretty illogical/mundane stuff, but experiencing it is sort of a high, and it can be kind of habit forming. Conspiracy theorists often also talk of this "waking up" experience, where all of the sudden it clicked for them and they could see it all.( For most I have personally encountered this was during watching a documentary like Loose Change or its ill-begotten ilk.) Prester John posted:Yeah, Icke's main message is that all of 3 dimensional reality is a gigantic holographic simulation we built for ourselves, so just chill out. Our hologram has gotten hijacked a bit by external influences not native to this particular space-time continuum(the reptilian aliens), but that is no reason to panic, we are going to get through this. Remember, its all just a simulation, and the important thing is the connections you make and how you decide to help the people in your daily life. 
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Lord Krangdar posted:Does anyone know an example of a widespread conspiracy theory from before the advent of mass media (say, before the printing press was invented)? Would the story of Nero burning Rome count? Pope Joan Augustus assassinated Hirtius and Pansa Ascribing "conspiracy theory" status to perceptions of historical events that developed over centuries is very sketchy, because frankly, it's the norm. The idea that Nero "fiddled while Rome burned" began as a more-or-less poetic statement by Suetonius which was later taken as historical fact. No one in Nero's own time literally believed that he did that, because among other reasons, he partially financed the reconstruction. Edit: That being said, conspiracy theories were common in previous centuries. If anything, they were more rife before there was a mass media to generate consensus beyond the local level in explaining mysterious events. If someone involved in a political rivalry conveniently died, they were rumoured to have been poisoned or assassinated; that one's probably older than the Roman Empire. Early Modern Europe was obsessed with conspiracies involving the papacy or suspect religious groups like Jews and Huguenots. Here's a book about it. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Sep 16, 2013 |
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And if you want a 9/11ish conspiracy that's actually true, Julius Caesar framed the Gallic Wars as a preemptive defensive action, but the real reason was that he was in tremendous debt, and when his term as proconsul ended he would lose his immunity to litigation. The Gallic Wars were about turning him from a bankrupt into Rome's richest man and greatest military hero.
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Sep 16, 2013 17:17
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I am losing otherwise pleasant people from my Facebook friends because I just can't help myself when it comes to conspiracy theories. Today I explained why there is no reason to believe that the Department of Homeland Security assassinated Brittany Murphy by way of heavy metal poisoning. I managed to save another friendship by keeping my mouth shut about the theory that Kevin Sullivan killed Chris Benoit. I get the mentally ill conspiracists, but why do normal people subscribe to these theories on a case-by-case basis when it involves their favourite celebrity?
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Nov 18, 2013 18:47
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There's nothing crazy about looking at the Kennedy assassination and thinking there must have been more to it than one lone, ingenious but crazy guy, who was killed himself before he could be interrogated about his motives. It's crazy to immediately assume it was the Cubans or the Russians or the Cosa Nostra or whoever with no evidence. Then there are people who believe it was British royal holographic lizard-men from the 4th Dimension, which is right out.
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Nov 22, 2013 20:39
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So about those moon landing conspiracies; do most of those people just believe that the original moon landing was faked, or that the moon is impossible to reach and the very idea is preposterous? Do they believe in satellite communications?
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Dec 31, 2013 05:37
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Davros1 posted:They claim that the Zyklon-B that was used for gassing was only used for delousing, and there's evidence that the Zyklon-B wasn't present in strong enough doses to kill anyone.*
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Jan 2, 2014 23:29
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How rich and powerful are the Rothschilds, anyway? Like, compared to the Marses or Waltons?
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Apr 30, 2014 16:56
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I remember some stupid diet book called Skinny Bitch which says that you should not use Splenda because it contains chlorine, which of course is not only that stuff in the pool that stings your eyes, it was used in chemical warfare!
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May 30, 2014 21:45
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Centripetal Horse posted:Basset's on the downhill slide to sixty. She's still younger than Lansbury, but she's getting pretty close to the point where the prefix "young" becomes ironic. She is still black, though.
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May 31, 2014 14:29
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It would be pretty ironic if Alex Jones was marketing The Stuff.
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May 31, 2014 21:10
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Martello posted:I looked a few forums on this poo poo, and have you guys noticed that the users always have horrendous writing skills? Tons of elipses, comma elipses (,,,) which aren't a real thing, all caps for no reason, misspellings, etc and so on.
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Jun 2, 2014 14:17
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SocketWrench posted:It's so you have time to think about the garbage they peddle bit by bit. In smaller portions it makes more sense than the whole thing all at once.
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Kugyou no Tenshi posted:I take it you never saw the SJW thread where there were literally people saying that if you didn't hate cis people you weren't actually trans, including directing those comments at other trans people? Or that if you were actually trans and didn't agree with "transethnic" or "transspecies" people you were "truscum"? It's a real loving thing, and some of them send as many death/rape threats as the "cishet scum" they hate so much. The term "SJW" has gotten intrinsically linked with the screaming idiotic masses who co-opt actual oppressed minority struggles to try to validate their feelings of persecution whenever someone says "no, 'demiromantic' is a loving truism and not a special snowflake speck on the Kinsey scale".
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Sep 5, 2014 14:11
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quote:Every effort I make to transverse our nation's highways is subject to death, violence, capture and seizure of my property by a thug dressed as a highwayman.
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Nckdictator posted:I like how he swings between "Not that many died if at all" and "Those who did die deserved it" SedanChair posted:I feel like they really belong in the category "plumb idiots" and not much else, just like ignorant slobs who have no opinion on the Middle East beyond "just bomb everyone!" don't really qualify as "rightists." I mean in both cases you could argue, but ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Just because they're really bad at being leftists doesn't mean they aren't leftists. I think one of the major problems with leftist politics is the tendency to just claim anyone with a dumb opinion isn't really a leftist instead of trying to challenge their opinion. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Sep 11, 2014 |
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Sep 11, 2014 14:31
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On the drive from PA back to VA, I saw banners hung from overpasses, with American flags and slogans. The first read "We the People," the second read "Never Forget," and the third was illegible at 70mph. I wonder if these are the same people I saw at a rest stop in the DC area who were gathering to take part in the Great Trucker Siege. This has been on my mind lately: Horseshoe theory assets that the extreme right and left are more similar than they are different because both extremes are authoritarian. But increasingly I find that extremists of all kinds blend together for the exact opposite reason; they tend to exhibit an ill-defined, poorly-considered mistrust of any kind of authority at all. I'm not just talking about fringe conspiracy theorists I read about online, but people I encounter every day. I find political slogans and political small talk a lot more alienating than a clear statement I disagree with, because it's so dominated by these ambiguous, negative generalities.
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Sep 22, 2014 17:41
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Shbobdb posted:Nation of Islam started as a UFO religion that has only recently started working towards Shi'ite Orthodoxy. It has a lot of crazy stuff in it. It's like the Mormon version of Islam.
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Sep 23, 2014 15:40
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Shbobdb posted:let me tell you people about all the freaky poo poo Cleopatra did and why Mark Anthony had it coming, plus did you know that Alexander-the-so-called-"Great"'s mother loved loving snakes and maybe that is why he is such a slimeball? Also, did you know that in nearby territories, the nobles claim "first night" where they deflower all the brides? Also, they do some crazy torture poo poo man.
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Sep 30, 2014 14:56
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Alkydere posted:Also, it seems I dodged a bullet by never reading Freakanomics.
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Oct 1, 2014 16:54
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We've hired our own geeks to post positive about Quixtar!
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Oct 14, 2014 20:56
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I like to think that Kevin Nash and Al Jourgensen are conspiring to conquer the world.
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Under the vegetable posted:Uh, I didn't say he did. But many people actually can't seek therapy on their own in this country, or are not even aware that it's an option. It's prohibitively expensive and isn't even accessible in many communities. For a time, I had to drive almost two hours to see a psychiatrist in a single township's locally funded mental health facility, because I was from a poor family and lived in a location where the only mental health care available was priced far out of my range. This was before "Obamacare", so even finding a place that was willing to attempt a meeting with a person who didn't have and couldn't afford health insurance was incredibly difficult. I only found the place because one of my school friends' mothers was a psychologist there and personally recommended me.
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Caconym posted:Yup. Flouride is probably neurotoxic in high doses, but also has the most obvious warning signs ever, in that your teeth will turn brown first. And of course the limits for water fluoridation is set well below threshold. Shockingly the dose makes the poison again.
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smoke sumthin bitch posted:the real charlatans are the legacy corporate media who are toeing the deep state party line and youre being conned by them
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