conspiracy theories gone too far

wendell borton · 2014-05-31 18:32:41

Came across a story on reddit about a man who stole memorial signs from the site of the sandy hook massacre and then taunted the families by claiming their children never existed. It seems he believes it was set up the government so they can inact gun control legislation. Instead of finding constructive criticism the nuts…

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Came across a story on reddit about a man who stole memorial signs from the site of the sandy hook massacre and then taunted the families by claiming their children never existed.
It seems he believes it was set up the government so they can inact gun control legislation. Instead of finding constructive criticism the nuts now just dismiss anything they don't agree with as a conspiracy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/11/sandy-hook-hoax-theories-explained-debunking-newtown-truther_n_2627233.html

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#2 31-05-2014 07:38PM

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Most conspiracists are paranoid lunatics. Head over the conspiracy forum just to see some of the crap that even gets thought up there.

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#3 31-05-2014 07:40PM

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_Redzer_ wrote: »

Most conspiracists are paranoid lunatics. Head over the conspiracy forum just to see some of the crap that even gets thought up there.

It's like the mad cousin of After Hours.

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#4 31-05-2014 07:41PM

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Reddit is full of conspiracy nuts. I saw one lad claim that all the characters die at the end of Land Before Time because they all go through a tunnel to reach the Great Valley

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#5 31-05-2014 07:44PM

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wendell borton wrote: »

Came across a story on reddit about a man who stole memorial signs from the site of the sandy hook massacre and then taunted the families by claiming their children never existed.
It seems he believes it was set up the government so they can inact gun control legislation. Instead of finding constructive criticism the nuts now just dismiss anything they don't agree with as a conspiracy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/11/sandy-hook-hoax-theories-explained-debunking-newtown-truther_n_2627233.html

It doesn't help when idiots like Alex Jones are allowed use platforms like infowars to spread these idiotic conspiracies to large audiences.

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#6 31-05-2014 07:44PM

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This tweet summed up my feelings on conspiracy theorists.

Conspiracy theories are a perfect mix of ignorance & vanity allowing the small minded to feel superior to and dismissive of the informed.

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#7 31-05-2014 07:45PM

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lol

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=90471131

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#8 31-05-2014 07:45PM

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a lot of people who follow conspiracy theories have made nothing of their lives, hence using theories to explain why they F**cked up

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#9 31-05-2014 07:47PM

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_Redzer_ wrote: »

Most conspiracists are paranoid lunatics. Head over the conspiracy forum just to see some of the crap that even gets thought up there.

well, it shows you how addictive opiods are ...

(source: neuroscientists say that the people who research into the conspires,etc get release of opiods in the brain...

sounds pretty good to me ....:D

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#10 31-05-2014 07:47PM

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MRnotlob606 wrote: »

a lot of people who follow conspiracy theories have made nothing of their lives, hence using theories to explain why they F**cked up

That's what The Man wants us to think

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#11 31-05-2014 07:52PM

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lol

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=90471131

The fcuk!

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#12 31-05-2014 07:54PM

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Hotale.com wrote: »

lol

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=90471131

lols

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#13 31-05-2014 07:56PM

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wendell borton wrote: »

Came across a story on reddit about a man who stole memorial signs from the site of the sandy hook massacre and then taunted the families by claiming their children never existed.
It seems he believes it was set up the government so they can inact gun control legislation. Instead of finding constructive criticism the nuts now just dismiss anything they don't agree with as a conspiracy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/11/sandy-hook-hoax-theories-explained-debunking-newtown-truther_n_2627233.html

Its hardly a theory. Is this not just the ramblings of a crackpot? To classify it a theory, even a conspiracy theory gives it a little gravitas.

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#14 31-05-2014 07:57PM

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FunLover18 wrote: »

That's what The Man wants us to think

The man seems to have some amount of time on his hands to get up to all the **** he gets up too. I mean he's watching the every movement of at least a few hundred people in Ireland alone, scanning their computers etc.
Between that and setting up all these false flag operations, making sure thousands of people keep quite about things like 911 and the moon landings as well as countless other events.

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#15 31-05-2014 08:10PM

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If you read world history outside of what's thought at schools and look at the kinds of things that come out in declassified documents then there isn't a case to say that just awful, terrible things don't happen covertly or that there aren't agencies and cohorts of people in industry, military and politics that conspire for power and for wealth.

It is the case that most conspiracy theorists tend toward being idiotic. I think it's a given that many are lunatics. Aliens, the Illuminati etc. are fantastical notions. The real world is a lot more obvious than that.
You still get democracies being toppled through plots, proxy wars, laws being manufactured as a form of social engineering, many artificial crisis that causes price rises, all sorts of propaganda on a massive scale, climate change deniers, things completely horrific like MK Ultra or the NSA revelations.

Guy in the OP sounds full on retarded tho.

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#16 31-05-2014 08:15PM

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Yeh questioning is important, but putting 2+2 together and coming up with 7 and insisting this is fact and people who don't buy it are sheeple... is just downright wrong. I'd go so far as to say it's unethical.

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#17 31-05-2014 08:16PM

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Why is there even a conspiracy theorem forum

it's only harmful

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--LOS-- wrote: »

Why is there even a conspiracy theorem forum, other than somewhere to direct rtdh

it's only harmful

Rtdh?

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#19 31-05-2014 08:18PM

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_Redzer_ wrote: »

Most conspiracists are paranoid lunatics. Head over the conspiracy forum just to see some of the crap that even gets thought up there.

Aidric wrote: »

Conspiracy theories are a perfect mix of ignorance & vanity allowing the small minded to feel superior to and dismissive of the informed.

In the last 2 years alone we've had the NSA scandal, the Jimmy Savile/child sex ring scandal, the News of the World phone hacking scandal, the Hillsborough cover-up, the Sophie-Toscan du Plantier case framing and multiple other Garda conspiracies and I don't even know where to begin with banking and financial conspiracies. I'd even go as far as saying that we've entered a world where the general thrust of the so-called conspiracists' argument-that we as a people are being conspired against oppressed by governments and the establishment-has become true.

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#21 31-05-2014 08:23PM

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To be fair we spend enough time on here slagging ourselves off :pac:

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#22 31-05-2014 08:28PM

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But are conspiracy theories by nature anything other than harmful? It think it's always a step too far

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#23 31-05-2014 08:28PM

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You can't explain it. Derp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXBoW7Hsmjk

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#24 31-05-2014 08:42PM

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It's all crap - im off now to listen to some music , the corrs or something .....

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#25 31-05-2014 08:50PM

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I've studied the Illuminati for years and have concluded they are simply normal people that are good at **** such as school work, golf etc, and end up doing well for themselves.

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#26 31-05-2014 08:57PM

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sabat wrote: »

In the last 2 years alone we've had the NSA scandal, the Jimmy Savile/child sex ring scandal, the News of the World phone hacking scandal, the Hillsborough cover-up, the Sophie-Toscan du Plantier case framing and multiple other Garda conspiracies and I don't even know where to begin with banking and financial conspiracies. I'd even go as far as saying that we've entered a world where the general thrust of the so-called conspiracists' argument-that we as a people are being conspired against oppressed by governments and the establishment-has become true.

Your taking an organisations cover up or simply people turning a blind eye and turning it into a plot to undermine society or a Governmental plot to control the masses.

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#27 31-05-2014 09:07PM

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On the subject of conspiracy theories, were Mick Hucknall and Rod Stewart produced in a lab with the help of Tina Turner?

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#28 31-05-2014 09:38PM

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Their mantra seems to be don't believe anything the mainstream news tells you (while believing any old sh*t they read on the internet)

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#29 31-05-2014 09:43PM

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obviously this was a false flag attack, the so-called conspiracy theorist who stole the memorial signs and taunted the families was actually a FEMA agent.

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#30 31-05-2014 10:11PM

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Magaggie wrote: »

Yeh questioning is important, but putting 2+2 together and coming up with 7 and insisting this is fact and people who don't buy it are sheeple... is just downright wrong. I'd go so far as to say it's unethical.

most of the time they dont bother with the 2 + 2. They just go straight to 7.

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#31 31-05-2014 10:16PM

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Beano wrote: »

most of the time they dont bother with the 2 + 2. They just go straight to 7.

Whoa! Is 7 the new 11?

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