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re: Why do people that buy into conspiracy theories suspend all logic and common sense?

Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:48 am to
Posted by Niccolo Machiavelli
Member since Jun 2020
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Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:48 am to
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we've never had a president who himself has believed so many


“Vast right wing conspiracy”

Who did you vote for in 2016?
Posted by oogabooga68
Member since Nov 2018
27194 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:48 am to
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It's not really clear if he believes them or just advances them cynically.


You Dems love to project, don't you?
Posted by momentoftruth87
Your mom
Member since Oct 2013
86110 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:49 am to
Nobody ever thought there would be a Pedo Island, guess what, there was.
Posted by roadGator
DeBoar’s dome
Member since Feb 2009
157973 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:49 am to
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a president who himself has believed so many. It's not really clear if he believes them or just advances them cynically.


Hmmmmmm. You may want to make up your Marxist mind. The above is strangely close to how conspiracy theories begin.
Posted by TigerDoc
Texas
Member since Apr 2004
11869 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:51 am to
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Sorry but this was a tad more believable than Hollywood is a cabal of satanic, pedos who torture and eat children to harvest the adrenochrome they are addicted to. Especially since Russian collusion was constantly in the news.


And the fact that that the investigator investigating it didn't look at "collusion", just criminal conspiracies, "couldn't establish them", and said he was met with refusals to cooperate, false answers from the WH, incomplete document requests, etc. Keep in mind that two people were guilty of lying to Congress about Trump-Russia (one convicted, one pled), one to protect the president himself and Trump subsequently commuted his sentence after being publicly being reminded of his loyalty by the perp. Furthermore, Mueller said that he would have exonerated Trump of obstruction of the investigation if he could have done so, but he didn't exonerate him, so you can make your inferences. Meanwhile, DOJ has refused Congress Grand Jury testimony and other documents.

History will finish this one.
This post was edited on 8/4/20 at 2:34 pm
Posted by notsince98
KC, MO
Member since Oct 2012
22089 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:51 am to
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I don’t have any evidence Tom Hanks is a pedo, but the whole situation is weird.


The red shoe club.
Posted by mouton
Savannah,Ga
Member since Aug 2006
28276 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:53 am to
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The red shoe club.


What is this?
Posted by TigerDoc
Texas
Member since Apr 2004
11869 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:53 am to
As I said, I'm open to CT's.
Posted by oogabooga68
Member since Nov 2018
27194 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:53 am to
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History will finish this one.


Lemme guess: Wrestling is real to you, dammit, amirite?
Posted by TigerDoc
Texas
Member since Apr 2004
11869 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:54 am to
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What is this?


Red shoes are posited to signal ritual child sacrifice/pedivore behavior to each other.
Posted by TigerDoc
Texas
Member since Apr 2004
11869 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:55 am to
I'm a firm believer in Greco-Roman wrestling and that populist politics is much like professional wrestling.
Posted by mouton
Savannah,Ga
Member since Aug 2006
28276 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:55 am to
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Red shoes are posited to signal ritual child sacrifice/pedivore behavior to each other.

Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
87410 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:56 am to
The same reason we still have people claiming black panthers exist-they want it to be true.
Posted by Mo Jeaux
Member since Aug 2008
63798 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:56 am to
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And the fact that that the investigator investigating it didn't look at "collusion", just criminal conspiracies, "couldn't establish them", and said he was met with refusals to cooperate, false answers from the WH, incomplete document requests, etc. Keep in mind that two people pled guilty to lying to Congress about Trump-Russia, one to protect the president himself and Trump subsequently commuted his sentence. Furthermore, Mueller said that he would have exonerated Trump of obstruction of the investigation if he would have, but he didn't. Meanwhile, DOJ has refused Congress Grand Jury testimony.

History will finish this one.


LOL. Imagine still pushing this.
Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
87383 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:56 am to
To me the Epstein stuff shows the difference between fictional conspiracy/secret society shite is portrayed by us and how it really works in practice

Fictional/Poliboard/Spirit Cooking/etc.

-Cabals of the wealthiest and most famous people and world leaders doing the most unspeakable things to OT 10 sex slaves and/or kidnapped children in castles. They all do it in some sort of worship of wealth and fame and evil and it involves the highest reaches of every community and anyone who contests it will be murdered by the uber-powerful. These are people who could have anything and everything they want and instead choose to harm children because they're evil and think they're entitled to do it. They meet at Davos and Bohemian Grove for child sacrifices and to plot the NWO. All the top judges and leaders are in the cabal, so they're protected. When the head of the cabal is finally imprisoned, an assassin handpicked by a former US President kills him.

Reality:

- Perv billionaire nobody likes too much takes advantage of suburban high school girls he finds a few miles from his ugly Palm Beach mansion, eventually brainwashing a couple of teenage girls and struggling artists/models to travel the globe with him doing billionaire stuff. Along the way he and his weird British friend from a disgraced family manage to get a handful of unattractive similarly-sketchy but well known/powerful dudes to partake in his perversions with said brainwashed girls on his ugly bootleg private island. He gets cover from law enforcement and government in the typical ways that wealthy people get cover, and he's probably allowed to kill himself rather than face the music.
Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
117595 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:57 am to
Some conspiracy theories are true and others are false. But Sheryl Atkisson in her book Smear explains that a basic tactic of left wing journalists is to label embarrassing discoveries as 'conspiracy theories' when they know the charge is true.
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
477219 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:57 am to
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but we've never had a president who himself has believed so many. It's not really clear if he believes them or just advances them cynically.

pretty sure it's the latter

given the coordination against him by various public and private institutions, it's a winning political strategy

"fake news" was the beginning of this back in 2016. everyone knew then that the vast majority of news outlets are heavily slanted towards the DEMs, but they still pretended they were some objective, non-partisan institution. that has gone into hyper drive since 2017 (with the biggest egg on face being the Russia-coordination hoax they pushed for almost 3 years). why wouldn't Trump rile up his base when they already know what the situation is (in spite of claims by the media)?

now take that example and you can spread it anywhere

now, i will say this has likely bit Trump on the arse with respect to the Supreme Court. he made the USSC political, which has made Roberts' value the appearance of apoliticality of the court over even his recent judicial opinions on subjects. if Trump gets re-elected, it was probably worth is b/c he'll get to appoint 2-3 more justices in his next term
Posted by Hoops
LA
Member since Jan 2013
8249 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:58 am to
People are definitely irrational about these conspiracy theories. Epstein, 5G, institutional racism, etc.
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
477219 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:58 am to
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Sorry but this was a tad more believable than Hollywood is a cabal of satanic, pedos who torture and eat children to harvest the adrenochrome they are addicted to.

well the issue is if you go THAT extreme, the reality won't check all the boxes

however, hollywood is a cabal filled with legit pedos
Posted by Tiger in Texas
Houston, Texas
Member since Sep 2004
22218 posts
Posted on 8/4/20 at 9:58 am to
To be honest, I think half the people in Hollyweird and in Politics would be locked up if we knew some of the shite they do! Power corrupts- when you have so much power, fame & fortune, you start to think you are invincible and above everyone else as to what you can do. And for the record, Tom Hanks has always been a very strange looking piece of soy...just saying...
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