Corrosive Conspiracies?

[PhitePhan]

The magic bullet theory isn't the official version of events (warren commission).



Is there a point where you can take criticism/questioning/cynicism too far? with the more absurd stuff like flat earth they are even questioning pictures of earth, saying they are manipulated for evil purposes. It feels like you could take any subject (maybe gravity or something) and go off the deep end with it.

It's difficult to say what is too far. I would say one should be skeptical about someone/something to the degree that they have been deceived by that someone/something in the past.

 

[PhitePhan]

Symptomatic of living in a 'post-truth' world. There is this notion that the elites (e.g. scientists) have an ulterior, secret agenda, so they are disavowed by a certain part of the population. That absence of trust opens the door for a whole bunch of nonsense, like flat earth theory, anti-vac, etc. which some people are perfectly ready to accept, since it feeds their narrative of the secret elite, liberal agenda to destroy the Western world.

Symptomatic of living in a 'post-truth' world. There is this notion that the elites (e.g. scientists) have an ulterior, secret agenda, so they are disavowed by a certain part of the population. That absence of trust opens the door for a whole bunch of nonsense, like flat earth theory, anti-vac, etc. which some people are perfectly ready to accept, since it feeds their narrative of the secret elite, liberal agenda to destroy the Western world.

Scientists? Haven't heard that one before, any material where I can read more about that idea (evil scientists trying to take over the world)?

 

[Grenz]

Scientists? Haven't heard that one before, any material where I can read more about that idea (evil scientists trying to take over the world)?

I didn't say they're trying to take over the world. However, behind the whole anti-vac movement, behind the 'Global Warming is a Myth' movement, there lies a profound distrust of science.

 

[Deleted member 196663]

Saw a clip of Joe Rogan confidently proclaiming that the JFK assassination was a conspiracy. A pretty popular opinion shared by many people (certainly online).

There is overwhelming evidence that Oswald was the lone assassin, but this doesn't seem to be enough to convince people.

You still need to point out on what grounds Joe thinks it was a conspiracy. Was it just based on the idea of a single shooter?

 

[BruceLeeOnTRT]

It's crazy. Despite the passage of time, every conversation about JFK's murder devolves into shooter theories and arguments about them.

The real story lies in who gained the most from his death, and what exactly they gained by killing the man.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

Holocaust Denial is becoming a more common conspiracy theory. All you have to do i s ignore a few decades of thorough scholarship and watch a few Youtube vids and you realize Hitler wasn't such a bad guy after all.

 

[HUNTERMANIA]

Most corrosive current 'conspiracy' belief?

That Donald Trump loves America.


Total nonsense and hugely dangerous to every principle of government and liberty we hold dear. Biggest threat to America probably in American history, maybe besides the Civil War.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

Did someone say lizards?

That's a frickin demon!

 

[Limbo Pete]

Holocaust Denial is becoming a more common conspiracy theory. All you have to do i s ignore a few decades of thorough scholarship and watch a few Youtube vids and you realize Hitler wasn't such a bad guy after all.

I blame the internet

 

[M3t4tr0n]

 

[Anung Un Rama]

Holocaust Denial is becoming a more common conspiracy theory. All you have to do i s ignore a few decades of thorough scholarship and watch a few Youtube vids and you realize Hitler wasn't such a bad guy after all.

 

[M3t4tr0n]

I blame the internet

And Russians

 

[Limbo Pete]

 

[Anung Un Rama]

The Russia stuff is actually corrosive on both ends.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

Most corrosive current 'conspiracy' belief?

That Donald Trump loves America.


Total nonsense and hugely dangerous to every principle of government and liberty we hold dear. Biggest threat to America probably in American history, maybe besides the Civil War.

I agree that there is no reason at all to believe that Trump loves America. I'd say the same about Obama. Trump loves himself. Obama loves his ideology.

 

[Blackened]

Holocaust Denial is becoming a more common conspiracy theory. All you have to do i s ignore a few decades of thorough scholarship and watch a few Youtube vids and you realize Hitler wasn't such a bad guy after all.

Many of us on "the far right' don't deny the holocaust happened, acknowledge the atrocities of Nazi Germany. We just acknowledge the fact the there was no "Russian Revolution" as people think of it (see Bolshevism), notice a certain group of people over-represented in media and banking and their connection to the creation and implementation of communism across the globe.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

I've never listened to Alex Jones. Is he more of an aliens guy or a political ranting type?

 

[Limbo Pete]

I've never listened to Alex Jones. Is he more of an aliens guy or a political ranting type?

It's all rollllled together

 

[Transmorphers]

Why do NASA etc. lie about the shape of the Earth, according to flat-Earthers? That's the big part of that conspiracy I don't understand. Where is the motive?

I've seen some say it's some kind of way to substitute science for God, but then they go on to try to explain their position using science.

 

[Jorge Luis Borges]

Many of us on "the far right' don't deny the holocaust happened, acknowledge the atrocities of Nazi Germany. We just acknowledge the fact the there was no "Russian Revolution" as people think of it (see Bolshevism), notice a certain group of people over-represented in media and banking and their connection to the creation and implementation of communism across the globe.

1. Why be coy? Just say it: you don't like Jews. Me? I love 'em.
2. What exactly do you mean that there was no Russian Revolution as people see it? I'd argue that not only was there a Russian Revolution, but that there were several, or at least one that extended far beyond just 1917-18. Russia was undergoing Revolution from 1905 until the late 1930s.