Really? Public Law 103-150 would disagree with you … and that’s a law.
OK, does Hawaii send Senators and Representatives to DC? Does it have electoral votes?
If the answer to either of those things is “yes”, and the answer to both of those things is “of course”, then Hawaii is part of the United States of America.
Well for me again, I think “bigfoot” is interesting and what I wish would be that if their were reports of some sort of cryptid (bigfoot, Wendigo, Jersey devil, chupacabra, etc…)or other strange things near me, and I wish there were, I would try to figure out what it is and study it. Like for example, set up trail cameras. Then I would try and publish my findings.
I don’t know if the theory itself is stupid, but the “sovereign citizens” who show up occasionally in my YouTube feed are way down there in IQ. “I’m not driving, I’m traveling”. “The Admirality code takes precedence”, and one guy who claimed that if he was scheduled for trial, the state had to pay him a salary.
I think there is a law that anyone who mentions “lack of joinder” has to be Tazer’ed, and it is a law I fully support.
Regards,
Shodan
You always remember your first time.
Back in 1989, my mom and I did a tour of the backwaters of Southern Oregon, to visit various members of her extended family, during which I learned all about first and second cousins once removed. At one point one of these second cousins who seemed perfectly normal was showing us around her farm when she just happened to casually mention that UPC symbols were actually the number of the beast imposed on us by the government as part of a UN satanist conspiracy. And with my cherry popped and I realized that crazy wasn’t an all or nothing proposition.
Did you edge away from her?
Public Law 103-150 is a joint resolution of Congress that was never signed by the President, issuing an apology for the way Hawaii was taken over. It did not nullify the action.
Senator Slade Gordon may have said …the logical consequences of this resolution would be independence." but that was his opinion.
My mom and I gave each other a look that said, “did she just say what I think she said?” and then we smiled, nodded and changed the subject.
Going back to 9-11, the really really stupid conspiracies are the Building 7 conspiracies.
Yeah, we hijacked the planes and hit WTC 1 and 2. But it was all a cover up so we could demolish WTC 7! You fools!
Except why do the Powers That Be want to demolish WTC7? What’s the fucking point of it all? What does it accomplish?
I mean, I understand the false flag theory, Cheney needed a war so he staged 9-11. That’s not what happened, but it makes a sort of sense. But why did Cheney need to destroy WTC7? To get rid of some evidence? Why? Why not just hire a bunch of Haliburton contractors, load up the alien autopsy specimens and yellowcake and the shoggoths into trucks, and ship them all to Area 51, or perhaps Area 51b? You don’t need to destroy the building to destroy the evidence, you just do what the Illuminati always does with incriminating evidence. It’s such a ridiculous embroidery to a nonsensical theory.
Destroying WTC7 doesn’t help Cheney start a war, or suspend the Constitution, or brainwash the American population. It doesn’t accomplish anything. So why did the Illuminati include it in their plan? As just another fnord? That is, they do things that don’t make sense and deliberately leave clues behind, just to fuck with us?
Kudos to Jackmannii for mentioning the cancer one. It’s just way too big.
I can’t even comment on the hollow and flat earth theories - a significant part of me believes no one with a 5th grade education or better believes that, and all the people who say they do are just internet trolls.
Avoiding politics post-1980 (so much craziness on the fringes and I really don’t want to get into political jibes between sides)…
I could nominate The Phantom Time Hypothesis for completely ignoring everything in history (especially outside of Europe), but it’s so little known (only ever saw it after I started going to history sites) that I’m not sure it qualifies.
Weather control via HAARP. If the US was controlling the weather, you’d think we’d get less damage and powers we consider adversaries would get more bad weather.
AIDS Denialism. The idea that all these medical professionals, etc. are lying to the public about HIV causing AIDS. There are different flavors, but any that depend on the truth being willfully kept secret instead of the ignorance of people in the field are just illogical.
Satanic Day Care sex abuse scandal of the '80s. I guess there’s a lesser known reverse-conspiracy that the government cooked up/promoted the day scandal to encourage stay at home moms and traditional families?
Satanic Ritual Abuse in general. The idea that there are whole groups of “Satanists”* abusing and killing children and getting away with it is insane. It hinges on the idea of “repressed memories”, which most psychologists agree is bunk, and the corresponding notion that such memories can be “recovered” through therapy. Really, it all reeks of what some Medieval Christians believed of the Jews, right down to the blood libel.
Of course, what really happens is that traumatic memories become invasive and all-consuming, they don’t quietly fade into the background, and “recovered memories” are false memories which were planted by quacks. Human memory is a constant process of invention anyway, and it’s distressingly easy to make someone remember something that didn’t happen. Hence the Mandela Effect, where some people are apparently convinced that they have slipped into an alternate reality from one where Nelson Mandela died in prison, or the “Berenstain Bears” were called the “Berenstein Bears”. Because dimension-hopping is more believable than the notion that you, yes, you could be wrong about something!
*(Yes, there are real Satanists. Multiple kinds, in fact, from LaVeyan Satanism to Theistic Satanism to Luciferianism to others. None of them take child abuse as a tenet, and none of them are really all that secretive.)
These are both pretty bad, but I’d rate the Clinton Body Count as more evil than stupid. Many if not most people who actively spread this know it’s not true.
The Satanic Panic, in retrospect, was unbelievably dumb along with being unbelievably successful. Along with the Cult panic that directly preceded it, it was fervently believed by practically everyone I know - including, I’m ashamed to say, myself. I hate to spread ignorance, but I’d wager that a poll conducted today would find a majority of Americans still believe the salient facts of both humbugs.
Preaching to the choir. BTW, did you read the “alternate ending to Big” thread here - make you want to bang your head into your desk in frustration. You know, it was really interesting to me when I read about how memories get re-written when accessed. Also when I read about implanted memories. Or just how many people would remember seeing Bugs Bunny at Disneyland with only a little false advertising to influence them.
I was looking for polls taken throughout the '80s/early '90s that questioned how much of the world-wide satanic abuse cult in daycares was believed by what percentage of the American public. Especially if the same pollster used the same questions each time. Anyone seen anything like that?
According to one poll, 49% of Republicans not only believe in the continued prevalence of Satanic Ritual Abuse, but also believe it was practiced by the Hillary Clinton campaign to some degree.
I know nothing of YouGov’s validity, but the *Tribune *and *The Economist *aren’t exactly raving Flat Earthers.
Actually the plan was for him to become a Kenyan citizen and take over their presidency. It…didn’t work out.
I’ve generally seen this listed as a separate conspiracy theory; that the man who had the buildings insured, Larry Silverstein, would only receive the insurance payout if all the buildings in the plaza (WTC 1-7) were destroyed… or receive a higher payout if WTC7 fell as well.
He therefore must have had prior knowledge it was coming… or, upon realizing WTC7 was on fire, decided what the hell, it’s empty anyway, let’s cash in and blow it up, then did so later in the day (WTC7 collapsed around 5:20 PM - apparently 9 hours is long enough to go into a building on fire, plant explosives everywhere, and tiptoe away without being seen by the thousands of cameras).
Yes, this is nuts, but it sounds *vaguely within the realm of possibility for an uber-rich scumbag. Of course, it’s also INCREDIBLY stupid and unnecessary since all 7 buildings were damaged beyond repair by debris falling off the collapsing Tower 1 and Tower 2.
The lovers, the schemers, and me.
Phhht! You believe in the moon?
Not ENTIRELY as nutty as it sounds- the framing bars at each end & in the middle of the basic UPC 10-digit code do resemble the bars for 6.
Am I the only person in the world who pronounces his name as “ick”? I heard it pronounced as “eyek” in a documentary a few years ago, but I like my way better.