You are about to get torn into little pieces.
And that’s utter bullshit.
Oh, good, I’ll tell my college friend who lost her godson in the massacre that the body she and her godson’s parents identified and had buried after an open casket viewing wasn’t really the body of her godson. I’ll also tell her that the period of time that her own son, who was a student at Sandy Hook and in the building and lost his best friend (the aforementioned godson) spent hiding in his classroom wasn’t real, and he created his experiences and the resulting nightmares and trauma out of his imagination.
In other words - go away.
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EDIT: Apparently we have disinfo agents among us. Or the conspiracy is bollocks. I’ll leave deciding which is which an exercise to the reader.
Welp. I was just informed that this message board was full on sane people who wouldn’t be rude. I suppose I will understand that that is in fact not true at all. If you disagree with what I said or have information to the contrary, it can be given without being rude. Really good first response to me though so glad I checked this place out…
Well it’s what my mother who goes on and on about this thing states so I will actually be glad to tell her that’s not true. I don’t have extensive knowledge on this and this just happened to be the first thread I opened.
You were misinformed. We have a tendency to value truth and facts here, not conspiracy theory misinformation. You’ll find a happier home somewhere else, if you’re expecting not to be challenged when you make statements that are easily refuted.
Your mother is wrong. The information you posted is wrong.
I didn’t say I expected not to be challenged there’s just no need to be so rude. Tootles.
Everyone is convinced reality is on their side. There were leftist conspiracy theorists who thought Bush started the war in Iraq for oil.
And you jumped the shark right there.
Oh, we’re plenty nice. It’s just that when you come in here with a statement like that, especially if you just joined, you’re going to piss a lot of people off, because your statement was callous, ignorant, and spitting all over the suffering that some of the people here went through as a result. What did you expect? Kolga was really quite restrained by comparison. I mean, imagine if someone you knew died in a horrifying tragedy, and someone came up to you and said, “Nobody actually died in that accident.” How would you react? Especially if that was the entirety of their statement - no qualifiers, no evidence, not even a paltry “I heard this, is it true”. Dunno about you, but I’d probably get really nasty.
There still are, though there are also those who think he started it for votes. Those who think he started it because he really thought there was a risk to the US are in a minority.
To someone above who asked if there are more conspiracy theorists in the US: I think there are more US conspiracy theorists that you, an English speaker, will come across, than from anywhere else. It’s a big country where lots of people are on the internet and they speak the same language you do, so if you see a conspiracy theory, it’s more likely to be from the US than anywhere else.
However, the US isn’t great in terms of GINI coefficents, and it’s a federated country with big differences in laws from state to state, which leads to less transparency in government to the ordinary person. Both of those would make it more likely for you to think the government is out of reach and out to get you. So maybe there are more conspiracy theorists per head in the US than elsewhere, but I doubt it’s a big margin.
And you just decided to show up and post a flat out statement with no qualifiers? Sorry. Kolga was NOT rude AT ALL to you. I have been taken to task vigorously and sometimes rather brusquely when I have posted things that are verifiably wrong. Ticks me off at the time but I get over it and over myself.
'Course there’s nothing at all rude about spreading rumours that people who have had their children massacred are lying, is there?
Not to be too troll-ey, but in reference to the OP:
The best GQ answer I can come up with is its the equivalent of someone you know casually saying they think the Earth is flat and the whole ‘round’ thing is a conspiracy by Rand McNally & NatGeo to sell globes! I mean. its ***that ***ridiculous! It doesn’t for a micro-second warrant a serious political, scientific etc.discussion. The only response I would give is the person must be either A) Mentally ill, or B) Uneducated & of low intelligence. In both cases there is no way and/or reason to respond. Them positing that question itself gives you your answer. If they’re a significant figure in your life either ignore their opinion on this if possible, or distance yourself from them. IMO I would inevitably discover something like this fairly soon into a casual friendship, and that would be it. You’re staying at arm’s length!
Nonsense. As I posted up thread, I know someone who personally was one of the first people who entered that nightmare. I know this person first hand.
Kolaga’s response was more polite than your offensive assertion deserved.
Actually, there are those who deny that no-one died in 9/11. If you google “9/11 no one died” you’ll get plenty of hits.
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I can easily point to huge names in the right-wing mainstream who believe in insane conspiracies…Jim Inhofe (AGW-denialist and anti-vax)
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I thought I knew the major players in the antivax “movement”, and never heard of Inhofe as believing in vaccine conspiracies or pushing antivax drivel. If he’s on board with that stuff, he’s going about it oddly.
What have I been missing?
In response to JLynn, I wish I could direct her to a board populated by very polite insane people, but most of them are quite capable of rudeness too.
Huh, I could’ve sworn he met with the Canary Party recently. Never mind, then.
Indeed. After the twin attacks in Norway in July 2011, I saw a number of cries of “false flag!” and “conspiracy!” coming from Americans - who could not possibly have been affected, or be affected in the future, by the attacks. It was essentially reflexive - not even necessarily “this news story does not match my world view”, since the people who thought that were simply saying it was “obviously” the work of a madman and not a terrorist. It was as though they were compelled to find a conspiracy because news stories like that are supposed to contain conspiracies.
Check this out. Okay, lets’ go with “disinfo agent”.