Why spreading conspiracy theories is dangerous

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  1. Dead_pool

    Dead_pool Spes mea in nihil Deus MAP 2017 Moi Award

    You my friend, win the Internets for today!
     
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  2. Dead_pool

    Dead_pool Spes mea in nihil Deus MAP 2017 Moi Award

    Is it a conspiracy theory to say trump released the jfk files to distract us from the so very many things he's doing every day?
     
  3. philosoraptor

    philosoraptor carnivore in a top hat Supporter

    I think it's extremely inaccurate, but yes, that would be a conspiracy theory.
     
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  5. philosoraptor

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    As far as I know the documents were slated for release decades ago, like in the 90s.
     
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  6. Dead_pool

    Dead_pool Spes mea in nihil Deus MAP 2017 Moi Award

    Ahhhhh, most of the reporting seems to day it's trump who is releasing them, so it looks like it was his idea.....

    Sorry my bad.....

    Have you seen, Russia has already denied it was them!
     
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  7. philosoraptor

    philosoraptor carnivore in a top hat Supporter

    No worries - the fact that even now, some 300 documents have been with held is crazy to me. I'm not much of a JFK scholar, but it does seem suspicious that Oswald visited both the Cuban and Russian embassy of Mexico in the leadup to the assassination.
     
  8. El Medico

    El Medico Valued Member

    No,no! This has to do with the Roswell disinformation campaign after that satellite fell there!


    I know,but it reminds me of "binge drinking" = 4 drinks in an evening,or some saying "mass shooting" = 2 or more.I mean,2 = mass???

    It's too bad the term conspiracy theory has been so misapplied to things which would be much more accurately called something like....like....

    fake news?
    :)
     
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  9. philosoraptor

    philosoraptor carnivore in a top hat Supporter

    I dunno man, here's the rebuttal to the claim: Nope, It Was Always Already Wrong - CSI

    References the Warren Commission right from the get go.
     
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  10. El Medico

    El Medico Valued Member

    Ha ha! I thought you wuz jes' kiddin'!
     
  11. philosoraptor

    philosoraptor carnivore in a top hat Supporter

    Nope, completely serious. America is a strange country, in some ways I think it invented the massive governmental conspiracy theory.
     
  12. Mitch

    Mitch Lord Mitch of MAP Admin

    Most conspiracy theories serve the same purpose as religion.

    They protect us from the realisations that random chance generally determines our fate, the universe is neither just nor caring, and our rulers are no more intelligent or any less fallible than the rest of us.
     
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  13. Dead_pool

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    I agree!
    Ps that's Exactly the point the cracked video made on page one!
     
  14. Mitch

    Mitch Lord Mitch of MAP Admin

    I didn't read page one, that's what they want you to do...

    :D
     
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  15. philosoraptor

    philosoraptor carnivore in a top hat Supporter

    I dunno, I could go through a variety of conspiracy theories that I think are supported by evidence. You're not paranoid if they really are out to get you.
     
  16. Mitch

    Mitch Lord Mitch of MAP Admin

    Doubtless there are some, but "supported by evidence" is a very loose term from most that I've seen, and I think my post still stands for the majority of them.
     
  17. Mitch

    Mitch Lord Mitch of MAP Admin

    It'd be interesting to see your list though :)

    But no, our Royal Family aren't lizards. Dinosaurs maybe...
     
  18. philosoraptor

    philosoraptor carnivore in a top hat Supporter

    Drug and anti immigration laws are written by a consortium of corporations that serve to profit from mass incarceration. Come at me bro. :]
     
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  19. David Harrison

    David Harrison MAPper without portfolio

    Pizzagate, satanic baby eaters in the White House, every mass shooting ever is staged by the government to make guns illegal, WTC towers were rigged with thermite in advance and possibly the planes were holograms, NASA just pretends the earth is spheroid and they've been to space with CGI as a tax scam, FEMA is going to send gas chambers disguised as decontamination showers round the country after a false flag nuclear/chemical/biological incident...
     
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  20. Dead_pool

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    Plus anything Alex Jones has ever said

     
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