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I was talking to a low-level (local in medium sized city) elected official who said that about 60% of the calls to his office have to do with the UN taking our guns, 9/11 being an inside job, chemtrails, fluoride in the water, vaccines causing autism, global warming being a hoax invented by Al Gore to sell hybrid cars, agenda 21, UFOs, the secret plot to foist Sharia Law upon our local farmers, etc. etc. I really don't even know where to begin other than to just ask, with some genuine astonishment, how the gently caress we got so goddamned dumb. I have a hard time believing that our grandparents sat around worrying that a bunch of non-binding UN talking points about reducing carbon emissions amounted to a secret plot to take our guns. Have we always been this stupid or has the internet just weaponized stupid people? Do we come back from this? I would like to think that national dipshittery is a self-correcting mechanism like predator/prey ratios but I just don't know.
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there should be a nationalized testing system to license people to vote, huh
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Oct 13, 2017 05:22
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I'd blame russian bots on social media but that's still in the realm of conspiracy theory because of Hillary
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Oct 13, 2017 05:22
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Sounds like someone is not the least bit woke. The sooner you accept that Ancient Aliens (Dinosauroids to be specific), seeded civilization, the sooner you can live a healthy and happy existence.
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Oct 13, 2017 05:23
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I blame everyone who has ever used the phrase "finding my own truth"
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Oct 13, 2017 05:25
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OP how do you feel about the following phrase?
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Oct 13, 2017 05:29
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EorayMel posted:OP how do you feel about the following phrase? Like I just took some strong goofballs
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Oct 13, 2017 05:30
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https://twitter.com/GrantJKidney/status/918472349892177920
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Oct 13, 2017 05:31
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world heritage not hate
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Oct 13, 2017 05:32
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I genuinely don't know if this one is satire or not https://twitter.com/AliDee12017/status/918498039261745153
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Oct 13, 2017 05:32
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Oh look https://twitter.com/TruthSeeker2115/status/915001568163880960
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Oct 13, 2017 05:33
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but 911 was an inside job.
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Oct 13, 2017 05:34
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VikingSkull posted:there should be a nationalized testing system to license people to vote, huh
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Oct 13, 2017 05:35
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Oh god how could I forget the Bilderberg Group OBVIOUSLY THEY'RE RUNNING THE SHOW WAKE UP SHEEPLE https://twitter.com/Enlightened_Pro/status/914963905616711680
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https://twitter.com/SteerMark/status/915712037078126592 It's definitely the mind control gas from planes and not CO2 very good point
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Orkin Mang posted:but 911 was an inside job. This is patently loving retarded. Was crashing a plane into the middle of the forest in PA also part of their GRAND MASTER PLAN? They could execute the conspiracy so well that for all these years nobody has talked but they couldn't even do something with that plane other than hit some danged trees?
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Oct 13, 2017 05:38
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Boof Bonser posted:This is patently loving retarded. Was crashing a plane into the middle of the forest in PA also part of their GRAND MASTER PLAN? tomatoe, tomato
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Oct 13, 2017 05:39
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I think if you believe in conspiracies you should get to vote twice. Once to elect the president, and once to elect the Double President.
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Oct 13, 2017 05:41
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Oct 13, 2017 05:42
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there's no such thing a stupid conspiracy any more dude there are headlines every day that are a million times crazier than things the craziest people have ever produced badly photocopied rants about
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Oct 13, 2017 05:44
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VikingSkull posted:there should be a nationalized testing system to license people to vote, huh Agreed. And there should be more stringent controls on speech and the press too. I understand there have been quite a few deaths from people spreading dangerous ideologies.
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Oct 13, 2017 05:44
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chaosbreather posted:there's no such thing a stupid conspiracy any more dude Spend about 10 minutes talking to a libertarian about Agenda 21 and come back to me
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Oct 13, 2017 05:44
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VikingSkull posted:there should be a nationalized testing system to license people to vote, huh I non-sarcastically agree that we need way, way, way more elitism in this society.
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Oct 13, 2017 05:45
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Nut to Butt posted:Agreed. Also, land/capital requirements. Nah we should just have massive forced reducation programs and a one party communist state.
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Oct 13, 2017 05:46
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Boof Bonser posted:Spend about 10 minutes talking to a libertarian about Agenda 21 and come back to me 
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Oct 13, 2017 05:48
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why didn't they speed up this guys prompter so he didnt have to say uh so much? wtf?
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Oct 13, 2017 05:52
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Smythe posted:why didn't they speed up this guys prompter so he didnt have to say uh so much? wtf? IDK but he looks like the BJ coach from the movie Old School
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Oct 13, 2017 05:52
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lol op thinks voting matters.
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Ham Sandwitch posted:lol op thinks voting matters. Truly one of the grandest conspiracies; one that OP buys into hook, line and sinker. 
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Oct 13, 2017 06:09
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I would agree except a lot of conspiracies weirdly end up being true. 
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Oct 13, 2017 06:17
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I have a soft spot for the lockerbie conspiracy, it's just fascinating
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Oct 13, 2017 06:21
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OP is entirely correct. /r/conspiracy and places like that are full of the dumbest loving people who believe the most implausible conspiracies I've ever read. Sandy Hook truthers should be forcibly put into an asylum. Anti-vaxxers should go work on a farm.
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morally adept posted:Nah we should just have massive forced reducation programs and a one party communist state. 
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Oct 13, 2017 06:28
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You can't have the yin without the loving yang. To score a strike in bowling, all of the pins need to be knocked down. After that they are reset and you get to go again. Bullshit and idiocy have existed since the dawn of time. You can't check truth without something that is false. I feel like we keep trying to make rules for uncomfortable and unreasonable situations that we don't understand. Moving forward, these situations resolve themselves. It's how society and animals and whatnot survive, grow, move on, and get eaten by the next predator that comes along.
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Oct 13, 2017 06:28
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Dismissing conspiracy goofs as mentally ill is a vulgar cliche but a significant percentage of those callers prob do have objective brain problems
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Oct 13, 2017 20:50
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Boof Bonser posted:I non-sarcastically agree that we need way, way, way more elitism in this society. it's really great when you can flippantly reduce someones complaints about modern society into them unironically supporting racist policies of the past without them realizing it cause guess what? conspiracy nuts ain't just a white people thing, it's a lack of proper education thing
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Oct 13, 2017 20:53
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UFOs are cool and real but sandy hook truthers should be turned into nutritional paste.
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Boof Bonser posted:I was talking to a low-level (local in medium sized city) elected official who said that about 60% of the calls to his office have to do with the UN taking our guns, 9/11 being an inside job, chemtrails, fluoride in the water, vaccines causing autism, global warming being a hoax invented by Al Gore to sell hybrid cars, agenda 21, UFOs, the secret plot to foist Sharia Law upon our local farmers, etc. etc. There's a bit of a self selection process at work here. Nobody gives a poo poo about city officials except for steel beam melting antivaxxers who are worried that chemtrails are dropping fluoride all over them.
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