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Apr 6, 2007

Trans pride, Worldwide
Bitch
The reported third person was their CIA handler.

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Luigi's Discount Porn Bin
Jul 19, 2000


Oven Wrangler
"Gentlemen. Our plan to frame a Muslim couple for a mass shooting is finally in place. Let's review. At 0900, Alpha squad - Dave, Brad, Chad, and Hunter, that's you - will start running around shooting people. At 0903, Epsilon squad will begin to remove the real corpses and dump fake corpses on the streets in their place. At 0928, crisis actor teams will be deployed to give interviews on news media. I've given Beth the morning off - we used her in the last four false flags and people are starting to get suspicious. Oh, thanks, Dave, I nearly forgot - before any of this begins, at 0812, the social media team will put up memorial pages for the fake victims. Got to get the hashtags out there ASAP. Everyone ready? Good. I don't see any flaws in this plan. Soon, the guns will be ours. ALL of the guns."

Armani
Jun 22, 2008

Now it's been 17 summers since I've seen my mother

But every night I see her smile inside my dreams

blowfish posted:

probably the most accurate interpretation of conspiracy weirdness

millenials and anyone younger in the developed world have never experienced true misery, by which i mean the illuminati need to start ww3 to straighten everyone out

You're actually closer than you think. I am trying to parse out the other reply to me but this is basically how I feel: we're too loving comfortable to have people react like this. 9/11 isn't the conspiracy - it's the result of one. Capital C conspiracy but people can't shut up about buildings and thermite. Just...missing the whole loving point for flashy images. Same with Sandy Hook: if dead kids then why no crying parent? (Shows picture of one person, clearly in shock, surrounded by wailing mourners.)

Fishmech in another thread told me the most dangerous activity the average American does everyday is drive their cars. I hope other people can see how this might affect how the balls-to-the-wall trutherism gets spread here. We live in mobile air conditioned bubbles that have radios, and go limp at the idea of children being killed in America by Americans. We can't deal, man. Not when the hardest thing most of us do is just wake up and breathe.

Everyone read that article on VICE about Sandy Hook, then go to the comments. It's the effect, right now, that the Internet has.

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!
Trigger warning: not a perfect world.

Armani
Jun 22, 2008

Now it's been 17 summers since I've seen my mother

But every night I see her smile inside my dreams

blowfish posted:

Trigger warning: not a perfect world.
For me, a perfect world still has death - just without the global existential nightmare crisis response currently gripping these people being amplified like a dub step airhorn on the Internet right now (myself included)

I dunno, there's lizardmen and then demanding the bodies of dead children to make your brain tickle

Armani fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Dec 14, 2015

woke wedding drone
Jun 1, 2003

by exmarx
Fun Shoe
As a generation of WWII combat veterans boarded the vessel to depart these mortal realms, one turned back and whispered, "lol."

NLJP
Aug 26, 2004


So this is pretty cool, apparently Silent Hill is all an elaborate criticism of North American policies vis a vis circumcision:
https://storify.com/jasperrolls/the-silent-hill-wiki-circumcision-meltdown-of-2015

(let's not have circumcision chat, just enjoy the crazy)

Neo Rasa
Mar 8, 2007
Everyone should play DUKE games.

:dukedog:
As a pretty big Silent Hill fan this is amazing to behold, thank you. :D

I love when paranoid gamers come up with this stuff because it makes it obvious that they never go outside or do anything inside besides play games. The SH series especially. Like half the stuff the person has there as "proof" is just random imagery from whatever horror novels and movies the developers happened to be into when they started making the game.

I read a similar massively stupid thing I wish I had a link to about the drug runner subplot in Silent Hill 1 and how that unnamed person is actually the mastermind of everything in the series and the entire series is a mean and horrible criticsm of atheism. Not realizing that SH1 has a drug runner subplot that goes nowhere only because Twin Peaks has a drug runner subplot that goes nowhere. etc.

pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!

NLJP posted:

So this is pretty cool, apparently Silent Hill is all an elaborate criticism of North American policies vis a vis circumcision:
https://storify.com/jasperrolls/the-silent-hill-wiki-circumcision-meltdown-of-2015

(let's not have circumcision chat, just enjoy the crazy)

"Research paid for by Satanic and illumanati funds"

Holy cow that's amazing.

Radio Prune
Feb 19, 2010
https://youtu.be/FzF1KySHmUA

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

NLJP posted:

So this is pretty cool, apparently Silent Hill is all an elaborate criticism of North American policies vis a vis circumcision:
https://storify.com/jasperrolls/the-silent-hill-wiki-circumcision-meltdown-of-2015

(let's not have circumcision chat, just enjoy the crazy)

drat I wonder what pushes a guy off the edge like that.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Neo Rasa posted:

As a pretty big Silent Hill fan this is amazing to behold, thank you. :D

I love when paranoid gamers come up with this stuff because it makes it obvious that they never go outside or do anything inside besides play games. The SH series especially. Like half the stuff the person has there as "proof" is just random imagery from whatever horror novels and movies the developers happened to be into when they started making the game.

I read a similar massively stupid thing I wish I had a link to about the drug runner subplot in Silent Hill 1 and how that unnamed person is actually the mastermind of everything in the series and the entire series is a mean and horrible criticsm of atheism. Not realizing that SH1 has a drug runner subplot that goes nowhere only because Twin Peaks has a drug runner subplot that goes nowhere. etc.

Isn't there an ending for a Silent Hill game that shows a dog at the controls?

GyroNinja
Nov 7, 2012

twistedmentat posted:

Isn't there an ending for a Silent Hill game that shows a dog at the controls?

Yes.

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

*chomp chomp chomp*
In a surprise twist, the Dog ending is also the ending to REAL LIFE. :dogbutton:

NLJP
Aug 26, 2004


Kurtofan posted:

drat I wonder what pushes a guy off the edge like that.

I bet the dude has a wicked rad dong situation.

Moose-Alini
Sep 11, 2001

Not always so

Haha awesome I like this guy

JUST MAKING CHILI
Feb 14, 2008
Good for Florida Atlantic University: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ims-gets-fired/

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Mercury_Storm posted:

In a surprise twist, the Dog ending is also the ending to REAL LIFE. :dogbutton:

You know, that's a conspiracy theory I can believe in!

Oh poo poo i'm dead. Awe! Who's a good doggy? Yes You are yes you are!

Blue Footed Booby
Oct 4, 2006

got those happy feet

twistedmentat posted:

You know, that's a conspiracy theory I can believe in!

Oh poo poo i'm dead. Awe! Who's a good doggy? Yes You are yes you are!

As with so many things, the secret to a happy life is not overthinking it.

Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Young Orc


At least there's only a bit over a thousand of them, I guess.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Sir Tonk posted:



At least there's only a bit over a thousand of them, I guess.

Good to know our country only has a population of 45,630.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to
The 3% think is this stupid idea that only 3% of the population of the 13 colonies fought the British during the revolution. I think the idea is that a small band of brave individuals did what no one else wanted to do. Rather than how having a large portion of the population under arms is massively draining on the economy, plus 100% of the population isn't made up of able bodied men, there are women, old people, kids and infants, people with disabilities etc.

boner confessor
Apr 25, 2013

by R. Guyovich

twistedmentat posted:

The 3% think is this stupid idea that only 3% of the population of the 13 colonies fought the British during the revolution. I think the idea is that a small band of brave individuals did what no one else wanted to do. Rather than how having a large portion of the population under arms is massively draining on the economy, plus 100% of the population isn't made up of able bodied men, there are women, old people, kids and infants, people with disabilities etc.

it's also dumb because as much as people venerate the american revolution as a stand against tyranny... it wasn't. it was a tax revolt and general set of grievances about being governed the wrong way. you'd think people were being shot in the street the way militia types carry on about protecting the republic but really the patriots just wanted more local autonomy in the generally same style of government they already had under british rule. looking back it's easy to think "hell yeah, i'd be right there with them at valley forge" but at the time only about half the colonists were in favor of independence, and of those a majority weren't willing to actually fight over it. another third of the colonists didn't care one way or the other, more colonists were undecided or ambivalent than actively loyal to england. so it's silly to talk about the three percent like they're the hard, brave men on the wall when realistically they were the ones who cared so much about tax policy that they were willing to fight and die over it

ErIog
Jul 11, 2001

:nsacloud:
I know this is like Zinn 101, but it's also really worth understanding that it wasn't a bunch of peasants standing up against the tyranny of the monarchy. The people leading the revolution were rich fuckers that were upset about not being able to control as much of their rich fucker property/money as they wanted to. They fought for themselves and made sure they were the primary beneficiaries of independence.

Lots of Americans want to pretend it was like ending apartheid or ending the British rule of India when more like it was rich British people arguing over precise control of the American colonies. The real noble struggle happening in the new world was native Americans fighting against their land being stolen from them, but it's really interesting how lots of Americans(mostly conservatives) never seem to champion that cause.

Can't figure it out. :iiam:

Big Mackson
Sep 26, 2009
i have a friend sleeping over and he brought up that there was NO MOLTEN STEEL AMONGST THE RUBBLE NUSH DID 9/11!!!
i have the worst luck when it comes to friends. why the hell are there so many truthers in Northern Norway?

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

Michael Jackson posted:

i have a friend sleeping over and he brought up that there was NO MOLTEN STEEL AMONGST THE RUBBLE NUSH DID 9/11!!!
i have the worst luck when it comes to friends. why the hell are there so many truthers in Northern Norway?

Check your local laws on kicking him out immediately. Most places the person has to have been staying there over X weeks to have any resident rights.

Big Mackson
Sep 26, 2009

Baronjutter posted:

Check your local laws on kicking him out immediately. Most places the person has to have been staying there over X weeks to have any resident rights.

nah he is clean he doesnt even use marijuana now. in fact he is leaving tomorrow to work down on his debt on a fish refinery workplace thing.

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



Can refined fish melt steel beams

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

-=SEND HELP=-


Pillbug

Popular Thug Drink posted:

it's also dumb because as much as people venerate the american revolution as a stand against tyranny... it wasn't. it was a tax revolt and general set of grievances about being governed the wrong way. you'd think people were being shot in the street the way militia types carry on about protecting the republic but really the patriots just wanted more local autonomy in the generally same style of government they already had under british rule. looking back it's easy to think "hell yeah, i'd be right there with them at valley forge" but at the time only about half the colonists were in favor of independence, and of those a majority weren't willing to actually fight over it. another third of the colonists didn't care one way or the other, more colonists were undecided or ambivalent than actively loyal to england. so it's silly to talk about the three percent like they're the hard, brave men on the wall when realistically they were the ones who cared so much about tax policy that they were willing to fight and die over it

Most colonists at the time were also poor subsistence farmers who couldn't give a poo poo because their lives literally wouldn't change at all. It also wasn't about tax so much as the crown actually starting to enforce the taxes that were in place. The taxes were balls easy to dodge and England said "OK guys knock that poo poo off." The colonists didn't want to give up all the money they were raking in from the sweet, sweet smuggling. Oddly enough if memory serves one of the reason that there were a bunch of loyalists was because they realized a localized government would be basically impossible to avoid paying taxes to.

If memory serves the people inciting the revolution were also set to lose a ton of money and land in Ohio over some royal deal or another. I forget the details but soon as they looked to be losing money it was "bump this noise, it's rebellion o'clock."

The other side of it is that viewing the revolutionaries as a bunch of stalwart defenders of freedom that kicked England's rear end is kind of dumb because the got the crap hammered out of them repeatedly. It was mostly luck that won America it's freedom. One of the major reasons that England gave up was because they were hemorrhaging colonies all over the world and got kind of tired of paying to keep them. It's a footnote in English history. It also wasn't all that exceptional because colonial rebellions were happening loving everywhere.

It's also worth noting that Washington had a hand in putting down other peoples' rebellions both before and after the one he led. It's kind of ironic when you read him talking like people have the right to rebel and then putting down rebellions.

Caconym
Feb 12, 2013

ToxicSlurpee posted:


It's also worth noting that Washington had a hand in putting down other peoples' rebellions both before and after the one he led. It's kind of ironic when you read him talking like people have the right to rebel and then putting down rebellions.

Not at all, a right ro rebel doesn't mean a right to win. :colbert:
It's just standard might makes right FYGM.

Evil Fluffy
Jul 13, 2009

Scholars are some of the most pompous and pedantic people I've ever had the joy of meeting.

Data Graham posted:

Can refined fish melt steel beams

Of course it can. That was Iceland's real weapon in the Cod War.

Big Mackson
Sep 26, 2009

Evil Fluffy posted:

Of course it can. That was Iceland's real weapon in the Cod War.

There are still Hákarl landmines strewn about Iceland even today.

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

Michael Jackson posted:

i have a friend sleeping over and he brought up that there was NO MOLTEN STEEL AMONGST THE RUBBLE NUSH DID 9/11!!!
i have the worst luck when it comes to friends. why the hell are there so many truthers in Northern Norway?

Ask him how he expects steel to stay molten for months as they dug into the rubble pile.

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

Why would there be any molten steel anyways? It was weakened not melted

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

Baronjutter posted:

Why would there be any molten steel anyways? It was weakened not melted

Explaining that is too complicated, best to just ask why there would still be molten steel 6+ months after.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to
So this picture keeps popping up in weird image collections


People claim its a photo of a time traveler, because the one guy is wearing a cardigan, sunglasses and a tshirt with some kind of graphic or team logo on it, while everyone else is wearing suits. Nothing the guy is wearing would be unavailable at the time, and there wasn't a law that you had to wear a suit.

Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Young Orc
Should've put him in there holding an iphone.

Tias
May 25, 2008

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This avatar made possible by a gift from the Religionthread Posters Relief Fund

Michael Jackson posted:

i have a friend sleeping over and he brought up that there was NO MOLTEN STEEL AMONGST THE RUBBLE NUSH DID 9/11!!!
i have the worst luck when it comes to friends. why the hell are there so many truthers in Northern Norway?

Scandinavia is truther central, unfortunately :(

I deal with this poo poo, too. Wait till he has been clean for a longer time and gotten some perspective, then help him get his head straight.

Skinty McEdger
Mar 9, 2008

I have NEVER received the respect I deserve as the leader and founder of The Masterflock, the internet's largest and oldest Christopher Masterpiece fan group in all of history, and I DEMAND that changes. From now on, you will respect Skinty McEdger!

I remember meeting a Norwegian truther at a party in Frankfurt not long after loose change had spread and before most of the rebuttals had been properly formed and put out there. The experience was memorable as it seemed like half the party were aerospace engineers or just engineers in general who already had no time for this poo poo.

Last I heard he was still firmly in the truther mindset and runs one of Norways big truther groups.

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MasterSlowPoke
Oct 9, 2005

Our courage will pull us through
Why does Norway even have truther groups? Who there cares enough to organize?

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