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Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Some truthers couldn't fit the event, or the reaction to it, into their head. It's a traumatic event and they've blocked it out. Others think they live in a reasonable world where people act reasonably. Still others buy into the myth of American supremacy.

Some truther arguments are inherently racist. Like the Ancient Alien theorists, they don't think that those people could have done it on their own. Others listen to Loose Change.

As for the holograms and poo poo? They don't understand that we live in a world of real conspiracies, so they look for fake ones instead. A bad portion of them are just mentally ill or letting talk radio do their thinking for them, and some just watch too much tv.

As for Kennedy, well, the utter chaos surrounding it didn't help anything. Did the cops hang the stripper? Was LHO a CIA informant? What the gently caress is Discordianism and why are they talking to the Bavarian Illuminati?! WHO IS RAVENHEARST?

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Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Radio Prune posted:

I always thought the :byodood: CRISIS ACTOR :byodood: people clearly have some sort of face perception impairment, which kinda lends something to those who might try and pathologize conspiracy theorists/ies.

:beck::"Zooming in on this paused video we see pupils consisting of many squares. Clearly this means that they are reptillian humanoids whose hologram generators are failing in front of a hundred man crowd."

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Grouchy Smurf posted:



This gem from the D&D thread.
Obviously someone is trolling, but it gives a good impression of what conspiracy theorists are able to create.

That's clearly a ninja star. What the gently caress is wrong with these people? :v:

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


The difference between left wing conspiracy theories and right wing theories is weird. In many ways, left-wing conspiracies serve to humanize the right, whereas right wing conspiracy theories serve to dehumanize the left. For example, if Reagan spread/created HIV in order to kill off the promiscuous blacks/gays/leftists before the millennium ended, that makes more sense than the uncomprehending hostility they displayed when they pissed away our best chance to end it.

The Right's conspiracy theories... Well, if you don't believe them it must be because SATAN got to you with subliminal messages, HAARP, and WELFARE GAS! :tinfoil:

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


You do realize that Oswald and LKT invented a soldier and had twenty elected officials just chomping at the bit to meet the guy, right?

He was more than competent. Lee Harvey Oswald made a fake person drive real trucks.
e:Wrong post.

Big Hubris fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Jan 21, 2014

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


AATREK CURES KIDS posted:

The judges who are part of the evil Papist conspiracy are mostly pro-life, while the other three are all pro-choice. You'd think that would be a point in the Church's favour for Jack Chick.

Jack Chick is too smart to be swayed by the false theology of that tyrant and rapist, Gregory XVI.

Abortion becoming an issue in 1978 is what caused him to believe in THE PAPIST CONSPIRACY. He was broken by the rise of the Christian Right, just like LaRouche.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Hypation posted:

OK. Who came up with the link between aliens and 9/11?

A Southern Baptist who doesn't believe in aliens.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


That The 90's show had Cassie's best friend on, followed by the mother.

Cassie Bernall was a lesbian.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Popular Thug Drink posted:

this is the troublesome thing about conspiracy theorists, a lot of them very much want to make things better and they're quite utopian in outlook it's just that they think they need to slay the illuminati or expose the moon landing hoax or other completely worthless policies in order to get to a stage where everyone can lead a happy and fulfilling life

To chip in, they get to a point where they don't actually care about whatever end they pretended to care about just so long as they get to enjoy "the struggle".

Like how they overlooked Bush era reform schools/camps.

Wealthy, politically connected people paying to have their children abducted in the middle of the night and "fixed" before the next school year. Now take the time to remember every subhuman who ever gave you a " You'll think otherwise when you have children. " speech. Set to spooky music, add demonic laughter. Bam.

Somehow they overlooked the rape+reeducation camps on American soil, but go after fluoride, OWG, and Brutalist architecture. This is because they're hosed up, and there is a moral/social element where, rather than accept responsibility and acknowledge that things can be better, they choose to do a barrel roll through the tree line and blame the investigative journo that snuck in through the front gate because influence peddling at a classical revivalist barbeque wasn't spooky enough for their taste.

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


Pope Guilty posted:

One of my favorite crazy conspiracy/paranormal things is crowd demons, where loons take low-res pictures and find faces that the low resolution (and often jpg compression artifacts) have rendered poorly and proclaim them to show that some of the people in the picture are monsters in human skin.

My cousin is turning into one of these. I think that 4-Loko damaged his judgement.

But it also gave us the best power in Demon: the Descent, so...

Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


QuarkJets posted:

Haha real funny guys, but we all know that the real reason that people misremember Jif as Jiffy is because the alternate dimensions are merging as the apocalypse nears

I now know exactly how I'd lean if I ever became a Narrativist. poo poo.

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Big Hubris
Mar 8, 2011


blowfish posted:

Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur invented infection. Think about it sheeple, without them Big Pharma wouldn't exist.

Literally Umbrella's business model.

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