Conspiracy lunatic thread - people who believe in absurd nonsense are dangerous

[wonko the sane?]

Entirely in unrolled pennies. Dirty pennies.

In a sock. Ballistically.

 

[abates]

Is the IP even really of any value now that Jones isn't associated with it? I don't even know who took over when he got kicked off.

I believe he's still presenting his show on it? I think he's hoping someone will buy it and keep him on as a host.

 

[Pale Rider]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1840087035140317218

 

[Rhinox]

Saw that on Facebook. Apparently red hats think Destro and his weather dominator are being employed by the Democrats.
Honestly, I always saw him as a 'don't tax me, I'm rich' republican.

 

[NovaSaber]

The irony here is that Trump is the one who wants to get rid of NOAA.

 

[Ungnome]

My brain hurts after reading that. Too much stupid.

 

[KidTDragon]

Remind me why we stopped committing these people.

 

[wonko the sane?]

asylums cost money, psychoactive medication makes money. You tell me why they stopped being committed.

 

[Ungnome]

It's a bit more complicated than that. A lot of asylums were using dubious techniques that were doing more harm than good, resulting in a backlash against them which didn't exactly help them get extra funding and ended up getting not only the bad ones shut down but many of the good ones as well. Gotta remember that they used to do lobotomies and electroshock to try and cure various mental ailments even if those treatments were known at the time to not be the best course of action for the person's condition.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Oh, I'm aware, my grandfather got both electroshock and insulin shock therapy... to treat his undiagnosed PTSD from the second world war.

 

[Autobubbs]

Not sure if I told y'all about my former co-worker.... but I could fill a few paragraphs with his conspiratorial nonsense.

I'll just leave this one for now.

He claimed that there are no real medical reason for a Woman to have an abortions. Ectopic pregnancies? Yeah... Doctors just make complications like that up as an excuse for them to kill babies (his words obviously).

 

[Rhinox]

Remind me why we stopped committing these people.

Ask Reagan. State Hospitals died under his watch.

 

[DefaultOption]

Ask Reagan.

Even if you could, odds are his answer would just be "I don't recall."

Reagan answers questions, but often doesn't remember

The familiar figure of Ronald Reagan flickered across television screens in two federal courtrooms Thursday before one of his smallest audiences ever. Several dozen reporters _ enough to pack...

www.tampabay.com

 

[abates]

Alex Jones' Infowars IP Heads to Auction After Judge Approval

The trustee overseeing the liquidation of right-wing provocateur Alex Jones’ assets was given the green light by a Houston bankruptcy court to start auctioning off the property of his Infowars media platform.

news.bloomberglaw.com

Update:

 

[KidTDragon]

I never expected it to look this beautiful.

 

[Dekafox]

Interesting post I saw today:

But there is a very real psychological dynamic in play here, where the existence of an existential threat without a clear, causal enemy coordinating it is utterly unbearable to conceive of, for these people.

Systemic issues - especially those emergent from a confluence of causes - that have no clear, obvious "this person/group is At Fault" to blame cannot be borne, because that means there is no possible way to exert agency to keep oneself safe.

Which means they need a scapegoat. Someone to hold responsible, even if they "know" that it's not true. A devil. Someone ontologically evil, who can be blamed for "bad things happening even tho I did everything right".

Because without a clear causal agent, that would mean the "bad thing" is happening for no reason, which means "bad things" will keep happening regardless of their attempts otherwise, and thus there is no escape - they are helpless.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Oh wow... no one explain to them how little agency they actually have over the world around them. The average individual is basically always bending to decisions they never got to see, never heard of, and were made by people whom they will never met or see in their lives.

 

[Xaaron]

"You think people make choices? No. People think they make choices. They think they're gonna steer right or steer left...but they didn't build the roads. The big choices already got made for them a long time ago."

-- Brennan Lee Mulligan

 

[Steevy Maximus]

Juicy bits about Jones' Free Speech Systems liquidation

 

[Pocket]

The Barbed Wire's effort to buy InfoWars is exactly the sort of thing I was hoping would happen, but it's not likely they're going to come anywhere close to affording it; I'd never even heard of them until now. A smarter move would be for a bunch of left-wing entities to pool their resources. And if the result is that they can't agree on what to do with it afterwards in a typical case of "the left eating its own", the worst that'll happen is that the whole thing collapses, which is probably what we all wanted to happen to InfoWars anyway.