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Re: Conspiracy theories

Post by Sean Hayden » Thu Nov 12, 2020 2:37 am

I want to believe our leaders --in the US-- are just psychopaths, because then we might hope to one day replace them with regular folk. The alternative is that they aren't purposely manipulating us with a callous disregard for the harm it's doing, but in fact just believe, like Trump, that the election has been stolen, the pandemic is a hoax, Russian interference never happened, climate change can't be real because God runs the planet, and the market cures all ills... :nervous:
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Post by laklak » Thu Nov 12, 2020 2:38 am

We're doomed.

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Post by Sean Hayden » Thu Nov 12, 2020 2:39 am

--fuckin' a
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Post by laklak » Thu Nov 12, 2020 3:09 am

Might as well get stoned......
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Post by JimC » Thu Nov 12, 2020 7:43 am

That just shows how many there are!

Anyway, some insidious form of mental control is preventing me from remembering how many fucking conspiracy theory threads exist on Ratz! :lay:
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Post by NineBerry » Thu Nov 12, 2020 8:34 am

We started to call them "conspiracy myths" instead of "conspiracy theories" over here, because that sounds less sciency and more baloney.

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Post by Hermit » Thu Nov 12, 2020 8:59 am

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould

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Re: Conspiracy theories

Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Nov 12, 2020 9:49 am

Threads mergificated.

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Post by Tero » Thu Nov 12, 2020 11:54 am

There is some kind of merging conspiracy going on. What are you trying to hide?
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Post by NineBerry » Thu Nov 12, 2020 11:56 am

Conspiracy myths are always merging with each other. Since those myths are already internally inconsistent, the additional inconsistencies when merging them don't matter.

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Re: Conspiracy Theories

Post by Tero » Thu Nov 12, 2020 2:16 pm

So antifa could have shot Kennedy?
International disaster, gonna be a blaster
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Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
Price of silver droppin' so do yer Christmas shopping
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Re: Conspiracy Theories

Post by NineBerry » Thu Nov 12, 2020 2:30 pm

People telling you the moon landing was a fake are at the same telling you there are already American bases on Mars.

People telling you that viruses actually don't exist and are in invention by Big Pharma are at the same time telling you that the Coronavirus is not worse than the Influenza virus.

People telling you that Angela Merkel is evil because she is the daughter of Adolf Hitler are at the same time telling you Adolf Hitler was a very nice guy and all the bad stuff about him isn't true.

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Re: Conspiracy Theories

Post by Tero » Thu Nov 12, 2020 3:00 pm

Yeah but what about global warming and sun spots?
International disaster, gonna be a blaster
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Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
Price of silver droppin' so do yer Christmas shopping
Before you lose the chance to score (Pembroke)

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Re: Conspiracy Theories

Post by Tero » Thu Nov 12, 2020 3:01 pm

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International disaster, gonna be a blaster
Gonna rearrange our lives
International disaster, send for the master
Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
Price of silver droppin' so do yer Christmas shopping
Before you lose the chance to score (Pembroke)

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