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Shbobdb
Dec 16, 2010

by Reene
Stop trying to muscle into my gimmick.

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My Imaginary GF
Jul 17, 2005

by R. Guyovich

Shbobdb posted:

Stop trying to muscle into my gimmick.

...doing god's work by spreading HIV to kill off them queers and other unwanteds in southern indiana?

Its a plot that goes all the way to your governor, I tell ya!

Dehry
Aug 21, 2009

Grimey Drawer
My mom works at a Walmart in the midwest and when I saw her today she asked me about Jade Helm. Apparently a large number of customers are trying to warn her about it, but added a meteorite will hit the Earth in September. Also, the Walmart tunnels are for the super rich and Jade Helm troops are there to escort and protect them.

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

My Imaginary GF posted:

...doing god's work by spreading HIV to kill off them queers and other unwanteds in southern indiana?

Its a plot that goes all the way to your governor, I tell ya!

Do you have any idea what the queers are doing to the soil

Shbobdb
Dec 16, 2010

by Reene
They're building landing strips for gay aliens!

MIGF is all right though. Some people say he smokes meth.

All he wants is a burrow owl.

Shbobdb fucked around with this message at 03:43 on May 11, 2015

Tias
May 25, 2008

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E: Is meth slang for republican cock? ^^^^^^

blowfish posted:

with the level of :freep: surrounding exercise "oh god our military actually does exercises" I kind of wish they'd actually march on town halls to see how many crazy militias start firing

You jest, but this just hints at the U.S. militarys fascist attitudes! If said militias had been communist or related to black liberation, I'm pretty sure they'd drop a bomb or two to see what happens.

Caconym
Feb 12, 2013

The Jade Helm stuff is just so fantastic to me. It's literally this:



Being from Norway with major NATO joint exercises every drat year it just so alien that people get scared of their own military showing up.

DEEP STATE PLOT
Aug 13, 2008

Yes...Ha ha ha...YES!



The bizarre Jade Helm hysteria is just baffling. It's not even just a bunch of weirdo crazy tinfoil hat people, the governor of Texas is even suspicious and whatnot. Are there really that many people who are terrified of the federal government?

Actually, nevermind, the BLM poo poo last year (and the current, less media-hyped BLM poo poo in Oregon right now) makes it obvious that there really are a lot of people who think this way. I understand them even less than 9/11 nuts.

SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse

Caconym posted:

The Jade Helm stuff is just so fantastic to me. It's literally this:



Being from Norway with major NATO joint exercises every drat year it just so alien that people get scared of their own military showing up.

Well, you have to remember they don't view the military as "their own people", but more as some mindless Obama puppet coming to trample their rights because that's what liberals want, to remove everyone's rights despite conservatives repeatedly doing such in just the past decade and a half.

I wish we could do things like some European countries do and march military bands through the streets playing music and such...but that'd send the loons into a panic "OBUMMER'S MOBILIZIN' DA ARMY TO TAKE ARE RITES!". I've even heard two discussing the reenactments that go on at Willow Run's Thunder Over Michigan being undercover training exorcises despite the groups being incredibly small, and as a participant myself, having no links to any military group beyond being a resemblance of WWII era units.

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

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Pillbug

Cubey posted:

The bizarre Jade Helm hysteria is just baffling. It's not even just a bunch of weirdo crazy tinfoil hat people, the governor of Texas is even suspicious and whatnot. Are there really that many people who are terrified of the federal government?

Actually, nevermind, the BLM poo poo last year (and the current, less media-hyped BLM poo poo in Oregon right now) makes it obvious that there really are a lot of people who think this way. I understand them even less than 9/11 nuts.

A major point of the right's thought process is "federal government bad" so of course they're going to use any excuse to make the central government look bad they can find. They truly, genuinely believe in a worldwide liberal conspiracy that wants to destroy conservatism by any means necessary. A Democrat is president so obviously any military exercise is targeted at Texas, which is a huge Republican state.

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Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

SocketWrench posted:

Well, you have to remember they don't view the military as "their own people", but more as some mindless Obama puppet coming to trample their rights because that's what liberals want, to remove everyone's rights despite conservatives repeatedly doing such in just the past decade and a half.

I wish we could do things like some European countries do and march military bands through the streets playing music and such...but that'd send the loons into a panic "OBUMMER'S MOBILIZIN' DA ARMY TO TAKE ARE RITES!". I've even heard two discussing the reenactments that go on at Willow Run's Thunder Over Michigan being undercover training exorcises despite the groups being incredibly small, and as a participant myself, having no links to any military group beyond being a resemblance of WWII era units.

MURCA (the land of the free): there's always more dysfunction, and it's always worse.

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


Caconym posted:

The Jade Helm stuff is just so fantastic to me. It's literally this:



Being from Norway with major NATO joint exercises every drat year it just so alien that people get scared of their own military showing up.

I'm not sure if its so prevalent any more but a big part of 90s conspiracy theories were that evil UN troops were going to invade America.

Caconym
Feb 12, 2013

muscles like this? posted:

I'm not sure if its so prevalent any more but a big part of 90s conspiracy theories were that evil UN troops were going to invade America.

Yes, but these aren't UN troops. This is the US Army. In a state with a lot of servicemembers. Most of these people surely know a few veterans?

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Caconym posted:

The Jade Helm stuff is just so fantastic to me. It's literally this:



Being from Norway with major NATO joint exercises every drat year it just so alien that people get scared of their own military showing up.

Another thing to keep in mind is that they do the "Jade Helm" exercise and similar ones in approximately the same locations every 2 or 3 years, and they're up the 15 th iteration. It's truly bizarre that they hadn't already freaked out over say Jade Helm 9.

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Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

Nintendo Kid posted:

Another thing to keep in mind is that they do the "Jade Helm" exercise and similar ones in approximately the same locations every 2 or 3 years, and they're up the 15 th iteration. It's truly bizarre that they hadn't already freaked out over say Jade Helm 9.

Normally nobody bothers to find out since it is a local non-event. This time vocal nutters actively latched onto the first bit of irrelevant bullshit in sight to pretend it is a catastrophe of epic proportions for everyone to get outraged about. See also: every other non-event that people who aren't affacted in any way are flipping their poo poo about.

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

GROUND-ZERO MOSQUE

Theris
Oct 9, 2007

Nintendo Kid posted:

Another thing to keep in mind is that they do the "Jade Helm" exercise and similar ones in approximately the same locations every 2 or 3 years, and they're up the 15 th iteration. It's truly bizarre that they hadn't already freaked out over say Jade Helm 9.

You're right that they do these exercises all the time, but I don't think there's been 15 Jade Helms. I base that on having my dad's "yearbook" from Team Spirit 87, which coincidentally took place in 1987 and I'm reasonably certain the US/RoK couldn't hold 87 all-out full mobilization joint exercises in the ~35 years since the end of the war until then.

Theris fucked around with this message at 17:04 on May 11, 2015

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

I'm strong. And a giant penguin. Please don't eat me. No, really. Don't try.
The conspiracy nuts have always flipped their poo poo over military training exercises just like Jade Helm. The difference is that now we have a black Democrat president and a maelstrom of other influencing factors polarizing politics so hard that the "mainstream right" is echoing the dumb bullshit that's always been said and disseminating it to a wider audience.

Prism
Dec 22, 2007

yospos

InediblePenguin posted:

The conspiracy nuts have always flipped their poo poo over military training exercises just like Jade Helm. The difference is that now we have a black Democrat president and a maelstrom of other influencing factors polarizing politics so hard that the "mainstream right" is echoing the dumb bullshit that's always been said and disseminating it to a wider audience.

Jade Helm is bigger than a lot of previous ones.

This doesn't mean they're right. They are not. But it is unusually large (because the Army wants some good practice in diverse terrain, which these regions include - not just Texas). I remember one of the conspiracy theorists linked to a military press report saying that the size and scope 'set Jade Helm 15 apart', which they thought was proof they were secretly preparing a conspiracy attack and I thought was proof that the army needed a big range to practice in.

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

Keep calm and Harry on.
Many of you are probably too young to remember Able Archer 83, which was a huge military exercise in Europe that some of the Soviets thought was actually Reagan and NATO finally coming to get them.

So from this we can conclude that Texas is now as paranoid as the late-era USSR. More so, in fact because at least with some of Reagan's rhetoric you weren't sure if maybe he really was going to start bombing in five minutes.

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

Shbobdb posted:

They're building landing strips for gay aliens!

MIGF is all right though. Some people say he smokes meth.

All he wants is a burrow owl.

Look at the soil around any city with a large homosexual population, like Des Moines

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747
I like you Shbobdb. You're not like the other people, here, in the conspiracy thread

InediblePenguin
Sep 27, 2004

I'm strong. And a giant penguin. Please don't eat me. No, really. Don't try.

Presto posted:

Many of you are probably too young to remember Able Archer 83, which was a huge military exercise in Europe that some of the Soviets thought was actually Reagan and NATO finally coming to get them.

So from this we can conclude that Texas is now as paranoid as the late-era USSR. More so, in fact because at least with some of Reagan's rhetoric you weren't sure if maybe he really was going to start bombing in five minutes.

More so, in fact, because the USSR and the NATO countries were actually engaged in a decades-long, acknowledged cold war that everyone knew had always had the possibility of going hot, whereas Texas is a part of the United States

My Imaginary GF
Jul 17, 2005

by R. Guyovich

Literally The Worst posted:

I like you Shbobdb. You're not like the other people, here, in the conspiracy thread

what, he's human?

Afraid of Audio
Oct 12, 2012

by exmarx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xuvcpjf1JU

suck my woke dick
Oct 10, 2012

:siren:I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!:siren:

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

InediblePenguin posted:

More so, in fact, because the USSR and the NATO countries were actually engaged in a decades-long, acknowledged cold war that everyone knew had always had the possibility of going hot, whereas Texas is a part of the United States

Nowadays in KKKommunist Europe armies accidentally invade other countries on exercise from time to time because some dumbass doesn't understand maps. Nobody cares.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008
Probation
Can't post for 6 hours!

muscles like this? posted:

I'm not sure if its so prevalent any more but a big part of 90s conspiracy theories were that evil UN troops were going to invade America.

I remember reading these well into the 2000s, especially around election season. Al Gore, John Kerry, and Barrack Obama were each going to open the floodgates for UN troops to invade America for some reason

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Apr 6, 2007

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Migf go away dude why are you making GBS threads up the funny thread

Warbadger
Jun 17, 2006

QuarkJets posted:

I remember reading these well into the 2000s, especially around election season. Al Gore, John Kerry, and Barrack Obama were each going to open the floodgates for UN troops to invade America for some reason

The Republican candidates, meanwhile, were going to do the same thing but "secretly".

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008
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Warbadger posted:

The Republican candidates, meanwhile, were going to do the same thing but "secretly".

Yeah and I remember various theories that Bush was on the verge of securing his 3rd term because a bunch of national guard units had been doing exercises or something

These things never really change I guess

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

And I can't think of anyone who liked being president less than Bush. He was dumb, but he clearly it figured out right around 2006 and finally understood that he didn't want to be president.

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

Dammit Audio I wanted to see how long we could keep it going

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
I was in the back seat of a car, telling a friend about a Call of Cthulhu campaign to stop a Nazi plot to manufacture large amounts of Chlorine Triflouride.

I get to describing how "that stuff burns hotter than thermite, it can even burn through concrete and gravel" when the driver suddenly calls out "thermite? you mean the stuff they used to bring down the World Trade Center?"

I was caught so off-guard I just kinda went "uhh" and changed the subject.

ponzicar
Mar 17, 2008

gradenko_2000 posted:

I was in the back seat of a car, telling a friend about a Call of Cthulhu campaign to stop a Nazi plot to manufacture large amounts of Chlorine Triflouride.

I get to describing how "that stuff burns hotter than thermite, it can even burn through concrete and gravel" when the driver suddenly calls out "thermite? you mean the stuff they used to bring down the World Trade Center?"

I was caught so off-guard I just kinda went "uhh" and changed the subject.

You should have tried to convince him that Cthulu and the Nazis did 9/11.

Dusty Baker 2
Jul 8, 2011

Keyboard Inghimasi
So the surviving Boston bomber has been sentenced to death and it's brought a bunch of conspiracy theorists on Facebook out of the woodwork:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/15/us/boston-bombing-tsarnaev-sentence/index.html

Do we have a good megapost or something debunking the conspiracy theories or am I going to be forced to fight this myself? :( Send help.

Moose-Alini
Sep 11, 2001

Not always so

Dusty Baker 2 posted:

So the surviving Boston bomber has been sentenced to death and it's brought a bunch of conspiracy theorists on Facebook out of the woodwork:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/15/us/boston-bombing-tsarnaev-sentence/index.html

Do we have a good megapost or something debunking the conspiracy theories or am I going to be forced to fight this myself? :( Send help.

Like what kind of conspiracy? I been lucky enough to not see any of that.

Mc Do Well
Aug 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Moose-Alini posted:

Like what kind of conspiracy? I been lucky enough to not see any of that.

Alex Jones was spinning false flag stories within a day of the bombing, it was hosed.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
*Within minutes

Dusty Baker 2
Jul 8, 2011

Keyboard Inghimasi

Moose-Alini posted:

Like what kind of conspiracy? I been lucky enough to not see any of that.

The Tsarnev brothers were framed by the Obama administration. The victims were crisis actors who also were at Sandy Hook. The whole thing was made up for reasons I'm too closed-minded to understand or something.

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