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EnderWiggin posted:isn't profiting from war illegal? War profiteering, which is usually illegal, refers to companies that attempt to overcharge the civilian population or government acquisitions in time of war. It has nothing to do with mere making profits.
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Agenda 21 is a 1992/1993 agreement that says "countries should totally like be sustainable, if it wouldn't be too much trouble, no rush yall". With some information on like good ways to do such a thing. Idiots think it means the UN can use black helicopters to enforce Sharia law and bikes on honest god fearing Americans/Canadians. The full text of Agenda 21 (about 300 pages in book form) is on the UN site: http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?documentid=52
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Apr 14, 2015 18:59
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twistedmentat posted:Isn't being able to see patterns in places there are non a mental illness? No, that's the default state of the human brain. Continuing to defend that pattern viciously after someone points out how it doesn't hold starts to become an illness.
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May 4, 2015 02:09
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razorrozar posted:Is there a word for this? I know there's pareidolia for face patterns, but I've never heard a more general term. Pareidolia applies to all such things. "Recognizing" faces in things that don't actually have faces is simply the most common to see. For example, looking up at clouds and they look like something specific falls under it. Or seeing bushes move in the wind and instinctually assuming it's some manner of animal causing it.
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May 4, 2015 02:40
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zakharov posted:So am I the only one seeing Shbobdb's bonkers posts or is everyone just choosing to ignore them? I'm reasonably certain Queen Elizabeth isn't in a shadow war with the Illuminati and the Pope. Well duh, everyone knows the Queen IS the real shadow Pope, the supposed deaths of popes are just her pawns escaping.
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May 5, 2015 22:04
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twistedmentat posted:I had no idea there was another state level military force in the US. Though at least they are meant to simply be an augment to the other forces, and a more local response team. Not some kind of defense against the vile and evil Gay Commie Feminist Black Federal Government. Yeah they're basically the descendants of the original State Militias formed immediately after the US itself formed. That whole thing where nobody trusted a federal military in peacetime and all. Most states had them up until the early 20th century, when most of them slowly started getting converted into National Guard organization where they were directly connected to the now permanent standing federal military, which is why most states haven't had any state-only forces in a long time.
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May 10, 2015 05:12
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Caconym posted:The Jade Helm stuff is just so fantastic to me. It's literally this: 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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May 11, 2015 14:52
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Woolie Wool posted:If steel actually believed the way 9/11 truthers think it does, most forms of iron metallurgy would be impossible. How would you forge something if steel doesn't become soft long before it melts? Steel weapons and ships and the like didn't exist until the 20th century and all records of it before then are fabrications inserted by the illuminati to hide the fact we could only use iron before 1908.
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Jun 7, 2015 03:12
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Everyone knows the bilderberg meeting is the world's most convenient cover story.
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Jun 11, 2015 04:02
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Illuminti posted:Quite an endorsement of the government email system! The Secretary of State normally has two email systems. One operates exclusively on the much more secured military and diplomatic network and is used for real official business. The other is on the public internet and is more for personal things and things that do not need to be kept secret. Hillary opted to just continue using the email service her and bill had been using for personal communication since the mid-90s for the personal side, while still using the secure network server for important business.
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Jun 11, 2015 17:34
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Where did you even start using "shine that noise" from anyway?
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Jun 12, 2015 07:57
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Yeah but where did you get the expression in the first place?
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Jun 12, 2015 08:58
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And now for a completely different conspiracy theory:
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Jun 25, 2015 19:55
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QuarkJets posted:This is simultaneously hilarious and also pretty plausible, it's not like Nickelodeon shows haven't ever had sexual innuendo that kids wouldn't understand. There's a difference between occasional innuendo, which kid's shows have, and the belief that the show is trying to indoctrinate kids into cuckold fetish.
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Jun 26, 2015 02:44
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Got some great conspiracy poo poo for ya'll! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=179616.0         sometimes even the actors are actors.    
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Jul 21, 2015 23:27
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Narciss posted:Regardless of what you think of 9/11 "conspiracy theories", one has to admit that the fact we're still arguing about what really happened 14 years after the fact is interesting. I guess if you're colossally ignorant of all human history and culture, yeah it would be interesting. But in reality it's only really "argued" by the crazy, the stupid, and people who've barely heard of it.
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Jul 24, 2015 00:53
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zakharov posted:So what's your point? Well I for one support the new frankenstein gangster computer god functionality Microsoft added.
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Jul 31, 2015 16:50
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twistedmentat posted:So, the implication is everything you do on your computer with windows 10 is being logged and stored by MS for....reasons? The actuality is that there's things like always on anti virus scan, the siri-workalike records the same sorts of thing siri does on ios or google now does on android. If you remember how in Windows 7 when a program would crash it would offer to check for a solution, well by default it now just does that automatically in the background, and so on. chitoryu12 posted:And some features can't be turned off! Or they can be turned off, but automatically turn themselves back on later (likely without telling you). The only thing that does that is the anti-virus, which why would you want it to be off permanently in the first place? (it also disables itself if you're one of those dummies who still pays for norton antivirus or mcaffee's crap).
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Jul 31, 2015 22:48
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babies havin rabies posted:Those people aren't dummies because Windows Defender is a terrible antivirus It's not a bad antivirus, the benchmarks used are practically useless, since they do not model real world usage. your computer doesn't get nicely packaged known sets of viruses to scan, and the high false positive rates on many of those other products are unacceptable.
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Aug 1, 2015 00:54
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GutBomb posted:I think the reason it's mildly noteworthy is the fact that so many have had the false memory. It's not that that makes the claims of some reddit users true (I imagine the "theory"is mostly people trying to be funny) but it's worth commenting on. Everyone I discussed it with yesterday was amused and amazed that they've had it wrong all these years. They generally only have it because someone else mentions the "theory" and otherwise they wouldn't have even thought of the name for years and years.
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Aug 13, 2015 16:42
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Pretty sure "jiffy" peanut butter has been a brand used in some TV show or another so that they didn't use an actual brand.
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Aug 13, 2015 18:39
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But the guy who invented GIF files did intend it to be a pun on "in a jiffy" and hence his preferred pronunciation, while we're at it.
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Aug 14, 2015 01:27
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Jack Gladney posted:Didn't Hancock argue that Atlantis was Antarctica and it got buried in snow when the surface of the Earth rolled around for some reason 15,000 years ago? That reminds me of some other kook who mistook various sunken modern ships and cargo that had fallen out as evidence of Atlantis buildings.
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Aug 17, 2015 00:22
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Shbobdb posted:I've never heard an occult explanation for "bear market". While occult symbols infiltrate many aspects of our lives, not everything is an occult symbol. Being able to distinguish between the two is really important, otherwise you can get lost in the signal/noise ratio and basically induce schizophrenia. I disagree. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdOBX2QjdGo
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Aug 27, 2015 21:01
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Sharkie posted:How threatened do you feel when you see black people saying "kill whitey"? Very, he's a gun guy after all.
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Sep 4, 2015 03:56
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chitoryu12 posted:This might surprise you, but acting like a jerk intentionally isn't as cool as LiveJournal might make it out to be. Thanks for this hot take last relevant in fuckin' 2005. Jack Gladney posted:I'd rather live around assholes than big whiney babies who care about their hurt feelings more than learning about the world and other people. Same.
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Sep 4, 2015 18:41
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BalloonFish posted:There're quite a few CTs about the Titanic, which just proves that they're not a particularly modern phenomenon; any major, shocking tragic event gets people trying to rationalise it away as something other than a horrible random thing that the world churns up: While this is all well and good you forgot an important one: that the mummy in the "mummy theory" was actually frozen in an ice like substance that never melted until it got up around human body temperature. And that this was discovered because the mummy said to have caused the sinking was fished out of the water along with some of the people, brought to Canada, and then made its escape once it was allowed to warm up to 95 degrees fahrenheit (and the magical ice didn't come back when the mummy exited the hot room it was in, presumably.
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Sep 15, 2015 20:33
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remusclaw posted:There is the one about some government agencies like the CIA encouraging certain conspiracies as a smoke screen for other activities. If I remember correctly, that one has been admitted to in a few cases. If everyone's busy thinking Location X is about aliens, it sure is easy to cover up more mundane things.
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Sep 16, 2015 02:30
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Hrrmmmm yes, 4chan is full of dumb reposts because of a government conspiracy, and not because mindless reposts have been a thing since the site was founded, to the point that a special board was created to make mindless reposts harder.
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Sep 18, 2015 16:42
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Like for the past 7 years, 4chan has had a board called /r9k/ which was created because the rest of the site is full of straight up reposts. The "robot" of "robot 9000" is a script that works to detect if anything posted is a repost, and if it is, to delete it upon posting and place progressively increasing bans on the poster as punishment. The idea that reposts only became a problem in the past 2 years is to basically say you were too stupid to notice them.
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twistedmentat posted:They really have Conspiracy Theories for everything these days It's just RED = BAD, RED = DANGER, same reason red is used for stop signs. And it's a funny coincidence that in a typical JPEG image, red line art looks AWFUL and the result makes ya look crazier.
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