frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
stop badgering him, he's trying to awaken us to the bilderbergs' dystoatia
Why Conspiracy Theorists are so prevalent.
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stop badgering him, he's trying to awaken us to the bilderbergs' dystoatia
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
He's just trying to climb the greasy polecat.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Tempting i know but please don't people.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Fair enough, though my experience is that a little ridicule tends to be a rather good way of flushing those-who-take-themselves-WAY-too-seriously (you know who I mean...) from cover.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
yes, it's definitely a good way to ferret these people out as they wrap themselves in the (mink) coat of legitimacy
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Speaking of conspiraloons, has anyone come across this before?
My bold italics. Marxism and the Bible are incompatible. The author of this site is joining the dots as best they can but it still comes across as a mess.
ETA: it even offers a link to
My bold italics. Marxism and the Bible are incompatible. The author of this site is joining the dots as best they can but it still comes across as a mess.
ETA: it even offers a link to
barney_pig
Po-cha-na-quar-hip
Really? Name one conspiracy theory which doesn't has anti semitism at its heart
SpineyNorman
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The great smoking conspiracy. It goes something like this:
You all know smoking is bad and kills you, right? Actually, you'd be wrong. A couple of stats ought to illustrate what ought to be blindingly obvious: What percentage of people who quit smoking die? 100%. Of those who supposedly die of smoking related illnesses, what proportion are actually having a fag when they cease this mortal coil? Almost none. These stats indicate that the opposite to the conventional wisdom is true - smoking keeps you alive!
Here's how it works. A large section of the population suffers from a tar and nicotine deficiency. This makes us crave fags, which then address the deficiency and keep us healthy. But the anti-smoking conspirators (mostly those irritating wankers who pretend to have a cough when you light up 50 yards away from them in the middle of a gale) don't want us to know this. So they make out smoking is what's killing us. But it's not. When people start to get ill they're told to stop smoking - which makes them much worse, removing the only thing that can help them get better!
I had asthma as a child. Since I started smoking age 14 I've not had to use my inhaler once!
That said, it might be the Jews trying to keep down the population that are pulling the strings on the great anti-smoking conspiracy, in which case antisemitism is at its heart (or at least in its lungs).
Note: Do not take any of the above seriously. If you have any smoking related illnesses go and see a doctor, don't listen to people on the internet who are named after giant hedgehogs!
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
The Kennedy assassination, where the vast majority of the conspiracies have the Mafia or "friends of LBJ" at their hearts.
The death of Pope John Paul the first, where the vast majority of conspiracy theories have the Catholic church or the Mafia at its' heart.
Malcolm Kennedy.
The death of Hilda Murrell.
There's four off of the top of my head.
elbows
Well-Known Member
There are quite a lot actually, including a variety of assassination ones. This can be acknowledged without downplaying the fact that a range of conspiratorial political stances have anti-semitism as a foundation. Or at the very least feature a tendency to conflate a multitude of seemingly unrelated historical conspiracies into an ugly mess which leaves many of those attracted to them unwilling to confront the anti-semitic theories that have ended up part of the mix.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
The Kennedy assassination, where the vast majority of the conspiracies have the Mafia or "friends of LBJ" at their hearts.
The death of Pope John Paul the first, where the vast majority of conspiracy theories have the Catholic church or the Mafia at its' heart.
Malcolm Kennedy.
The death of Hilda Murrell.
There's four off of the top of my head.
P2 lodge masons did it, masons are controlled by the illuminati, the illuminati are a tool of ZOG
three easy steps.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Sure, but often those "easy steps" are spurious. For example, the fact that what we call P2 was actually a non-Freemasonic group within an existing constituted lodge rarely gets mentioned, because it ruins the progression from "masons" to "ZOG". Another thing that doesn't get mentioned a lot is that some of P2's membership were former members of Italian fascist groupings, including those who took part in Gladio and other "stay behind" networks post-WW2.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurabia
it doesn't have to have anti-semitism at its heart, just dislike of muslims, but sometimes it does
barney_pig
Po-cha-na-quar-hip
Because we really don't want any spurious conspiracist linkage, only the serious ones
Only joking, of course there are conspiracy theories which don't have ZOG or the Rothschilds at their heart, however, what has struck me is how so many seemingly disparate theories always end up with a 'secret hand' guiding it all.
Jews have secret hands Anglo-Saxons have invisible hands
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurabia
it doesn't have to have anti-semitism at its heart, just dislike of muslims, but sometimes it does
Here's a popular companion to 'Eurabia'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School_conspiracy_theory
Here's a good take down.
http://theredphoenixapl.org/2011/08/26/debunking-william-s-lind-cultural-marxism/
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
That's because CTers find loose ends anathema, so they have a tendency to roll CTs together at the slightest excuse or because of the most cursory of linkages. It's so much easier to believe in a hidden hand guiding evil than to accept that the world is full of cunts.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Anyone who starts a sentence with:
is more often than not a conspiraloon.
is more often than not a conspiraloon.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Was Oscar Wilde a conspirloon?
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
he wasn't actually locked up in reading jail for gayness, he was locked up for exposing THE TRUTH
I don't think schools even bother with critical thinking. At least, I was never expected to do anything like that before university. It is a bit scary the way almost anything can be considered as equally valid as long as it presents itself with the surface of authority. I'm inclined to view it as a feature of the immaturity of the Internet.
I agree. And they tend to regard governments or their agencies to be far more effective than they appear to be. A dead giveaway would be a conspiracy going wrong, and yet that never seems to happen.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Good to see you again!
There's also the attribution of monolithic qualities to state structures (the various ministries here and departments of state where you are) that the functioning of those actual structures directly contradicts. If state structures were as well-integrated internally and with each other as most CTs imply, there wouldn't be the need for governments to constantly promise "joined up government" and "an end to administrative waste".
As for conspiracies going wrong, "wrong" is in the eye of the beholder! Deviation from the expected just serves as even more proof for most CTers, at least IME.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
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