# American Imperialism **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 27, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114 "2013-03-27T17:59:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/21 "2013-03-27T18:38:47Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > I learned… I laughed. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/22 "2013-03-27T18:38:57Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > It says, “For rants about the world” so it seemed the most appropriate place. Where should I have posted these threads? [Here.](http://www.giraffeboards.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Cosmored](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bcef8e/32.png) [@Cosmored](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cosmored)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/23 "2013-03-27T18:39:00Z")
> [@](#): > > You believe that the US government installs puppet government left and right but that it is impossible for the US to have gone to the moon? Read the part about space radiation in post #1. > **[The Apollo Moon Missions Were Faked in a Studio](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=686258)** > > The evidence that the Apollo moon missions were faked in a studio is crushing. The US government can’t censor the evidence that’s on the internet but it can bury it with disinformation and obfuscation. If you enter “Apollo hoax” in Google, you’ll... ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/24 "2013-03-27T18:40:04Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > [Here.](http://www.giraffeboards.com/) Hah! ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/25 "2013-03-27T18:40:12Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > The US government sends the CIA to install a puppet government in a small country whose resources big American companies want. The puppet president lets the American companies exploit the country and he gets a commision from the companies. So? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/26 "2013-03-27T18:40:26Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > I’ve spoken to lots of people from third world countries who didn’t know each other and they all say the same thing. Oh, is [this](http://www.google.com/imgres?q=an+idiot+abroad&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1023&bih=845&tbm=isch&tbnid=A7wSRJmjxklPEM:&imgrefurl=http://sky1.sky.com/an-idiot-abroad/an-idiot-abroad-2-desert-island&docid=kugyts59JBNLMM&imgurl=http://aka.media.entertainment.sky.com/image/unscaled/2011/09/16/An-Idiot-Abroad-2-Episode-1-Desert-Island.jpg&w=580&h=326&ei=LTxTUZ7cA7Tj4APp0IHQCQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=401&vpy=540&dur=204&hovh=168&hovw=300&tx=164&ty=150&page=1&tbnh=144&tbnw=274&start=0&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:15,s:0,i:129) you? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/27 "2013-03-27T18:42:20Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > Read the part about space radiation in post #1. > [The Apollo Moon Missions Were Faked in a Studio - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=686258) You’re citing your own worthless wall of text. I think what we have here is artificial stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/28 "2013-03-27T18:43:27Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > Read the part about space radiation in post #1. > [The Apollo Moon Missions Were Faked in a Studio - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=686258) Cites to Geocities websites that were taken down years ago? Wow, that’s scientific gold, Jerry – Gold!! What’s next, animated dancing babies and clips of “Ally McBeal?” ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/29 "2013-03-27T18:44:08Z")
Cosmored is all over the internet with such topics as: The US Government Planned and Carried Out the 9/11 Attacks Were the Manson Killings a US Government Black Op? Was Michael Jackson Killed by the CIA? Were We Told the Truth about Jonestown? And the responses are all pretty much what we’ve been telling him here: HE’S A FUCKING MORON! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/30 "2013-03-27T18:44:55Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > It says, “For rants about the world” so it seemed the most appropriate place. Where should I have posted these threads? > [@Czarcasm](#): > > [Here.](http://www.giraffeboards.com/) Where? Crazy Town or The Dump? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/31 "2013-03-27T18:46:06Z")
**Red** - So we don’t get fifteen more threads by you, can you answer these questions here? Do you think JFK’s killing was a conspiracy? Do you think extraterrestrials have visited Earth, and governments suppress any information about it? Do you think cancer has been cured, but big pharma is keeping the cure from the public for reasons of profit? Do you think the Illuminati makes most decisions for the world, including who serves as the president of the United States? Do you think the United States is a great Satan, and the world would be better off if it ceased to exist? It’d help us all to contain these inevitable discussions to one thread. ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/32 "2013-03-27T18:49:05Z")
I learned your mom’s phone number from the bathroom wall in the local Home Depot’s men’s room. It said: “For an incomprehensibly horrifying time call Cosmored’s mom: 1-888-SHAMBLING-MONSTROSITY” When I dialed the number, my hair instantly went white, I had to chop off my hand and replace it with a chainsaw, and the cute Japanese girl that lives across the street shot up into the sky where she turned into a giant robot with missile-boobs that then proceeded to fight and/or have sex with (it was kind of hard to tell) a thirty-story tentacle monster that, at one point in the past, had been gestating on top of famed painting instructor Bob Ross’s head. And yet, it still made more sense than you do. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/33 "2013-03-27T18:51:20Z")
I think **Cosmored** and **JOSH** need to get together. Apparently neither one has had an original thought in their miserable worthless lives. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/34 "2013-03-27T18:54:09Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Cites to Geocities websites that were taken down years ago? Wow, that’s scientific gold, Jerry – Gold!! What’s next, animated dancing babies and clips of “Ally McBeal?” My money is on “Badger, badger, badger, badger, mush-room, mush-room . . . snake!”. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/35 "2013-03-27T18:56:02Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > I’ve spoken to lots of people from third world countries who didn’t know each other and they all say the same thing. What they say is consistent with what those articles and videos say. > > If you insist, I can give a short summary. > > The US government sends the CIA to install a puppet government in a small country whose resources big American companies want. The puppet president lets the American companies exploit the country and he gets a commision from the companies. > > You can get the details by reading the articles and watching the videos. > > This should be enough for any objective thinking person. You met the letter of my challenge but failed the spirit by still instructing us to go to your links, many of which are expired or otherwise unavailable. You fail as a conspiracy-monger. The only thing I know of you is failure. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/36 "2013-03-27T18:56:33Z")
> [@Cosmored](#): > > I’ve spoken to lots of people from third world countries Well, you should stop. Those people have enough problems. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/37 "2013-03-27T18:56:41Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > My money is on “Badger, badger, badger, badger, mush-room, mush-room . . . snake!”. Hamster in a microwave. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/38 "2013-03-27T18:57:01Z")
I refuse to take **Cosmored** seriously until he cites some Infowars or Prisonplanet links. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/39 "2013-03-27T19:01:57Z")
On a serious note, I think this thread serves as warning about what happens when a person is cosmored. If you or anyone you know is thinking of cosmoring or being cosmored, stop and seek help. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2013, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114/40 "2013-03-27T19:09:43Z")
If you suffer from youtube link glurges, have a poor grasp of reality, and see the shadowy hand of dark government figures everywhere, you may be suffering from **cosmoring**. From the makers of Probestin, RationalB (rationifen HCL). Side effects may include bouts of clarity, rationality, real world social interactions, removal of tin foil helmets, and moving out of parents’ basements. Sponsored message from SDMBPharm, LLC [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-imperialism/654114.md?page=3)