The Yippies’ true purpose in disrupting the 1968 Democratic convention was to ensure the election of Richard Nixon, under the assumption that his actions as President would be so vile as to result in the radicalization of a major segment of the US population.
Sorry dude, I was there and I was one of the disrupters, and if that was going on it was DEEP DEEP underground. But it’s pretty funny to think of.
Yeah, baby! Like winning the freaking 2015 Grey cup!
Wooooo!
Airlines can track when you’re merely browsing for a fare and raise it the next day. Even if your planned trip is months away and the plane couldn’t have filled overnight.
I concede this might be true in some respects, like a supply-and-demand adjuster built into their algorithm.
I whole-heartedly believe the US Government is deliberately trying to cripple the middle class with debt, in order to make us easier to control and keep down. My generation (Gen X) has higher wages than previous generations, but lower standard of living and more debt. How’d that happen??
Michael Jordan was a compulsive gambler who racked up huge debts to some very unsavory characters, who killed his father when he didn’t timely pay up. Facing scandal (and possibly forcing the NBA to expel its best player), he instead “retired” so that the gambling issue could get swept under the rug. Only, his retirement consisted of playing baseball for the White Sox (owned by Jerry Reinsdorf, who also owned the Bulls) until he could settle up and then safely return to the league without any further discussion of his poker playing.
This isn’t a conspiracy; it happens. When you are shopping for plane tickets and don’t plan to buy at that time use Incognito mode or the price will be higher the next time you check. They do that to pressure you into buying right now.
Been thinkin that for some time!
So very true!
Who = Big Bruceploitation
Why = Profit
George Bush’s “choking on a pretzel” incident was bullshit. Bush and Cheney got into a fistfight.
This is supported by the fact that the next time we saw Cheney he also had facial bruising, which he claimed came from his dog jumping up and hitting him in the face with its head while he was bent over.
If true, the ramifications of this would be, well, nothing. But it makes more sense than that stupid pretzel story.
Speaking of Dick Cheney, I thought it was odd that one time when he disappeared for a few weeks, and then later calmly surfaced.
I’m pretty sure they replaced him with a robot. Since then, I’ve always called him the Cheney Bot.
Mine involves the death of George Burns. He died on March 9, 1996 just 49 days after turning 100. My theory is that he actually died prior to his 100th and there was such focus on his centenary birthday at that time (there actually was) that they (you know, them) covered it up.
As “evidence” I offer that he did not appear at his 100th birthday celebration as he was “too weak.”
I demand that congress investigate this serious breach of public trust. I am not a crackpot.
It doesn’t have to be a big motive. It could just be a jealous, racist crewman. God knows it still happens in this country to this day, and Trump is not exactly helping with the racist sentiments.
Hotels too. I shopped around online for a hotel room and the prices would go up by $20 - $50 within the hour. :dubious:
This is not even a conspiracy; it’s right out there for all to see, if only they would think about it. Advertising, which is the real driving force behind mass media anymore, is not really about selling the virtues of a product. It’s about creating an atmosphere of dissatisfaction with one’s life in general. If you don’t buy and use the product, you’re outdated, outmoded, missing out on all that’s good in life, people are talking and/or laughing at you behind your back, etc. Every day, we are relentlessly beaten over the head with the idea that if you don’t buy it…you just don’t get it. You are failing as a human being. No wonder suicide and death rates are up, especially among white middle-class males. And don’t even get me started on what the media are doing to young women in America.
Ive heard you should browse travel sites in your browsers private mode, so cookies arent saved between sessions and they cant do this kind of stuff.
No idea if it`s true, but I do it anyway. 
Totally agree. And it also pushes the idea that true happiness lies in the instantaneous gratification of one’s urges. Self-control, moderation… forget it.
**I do not believe there is any such clinically existent thing as “mental illness”. **
Severe human miseries that encompass both emotional disequilibrium and cognitive divorce from useful interpretation of events, yes, certainly. And yes, a phenomena, these states of mind fall into certain observable patterns. I’m definitely not saying the suffering, or the disabling effects of these phenomena, are dismissably akin to no more than ordinary average everday levels of stress and confusion and unhappiness and so forth.
But a MIND cannot be “ill” — that’s a metaphor at best.
I believe the care and responsibility for (for lack of a better word here) crazy folks was assigned to medical doctors in the 19th century in part because they were persons of authority and social stature, and in part because scientific discoveries in recent years provided reason for optimism that a physical biological process would indeed prove to be the cause of these phenomena.
A reasonable hypothesis but over a century of research has come back empty. At best we have some evidence that people, at the time they are undergoing these mental states, can be shown to have correlating biological activity going on in their brains (not indicative of causation. if I start burning your feet off with a welding torch your brain will experience measurable activity, but the latter won’t be the cause of your pains) and that some people appear to be more predisposed to go into such a state of mind under the same circumstances where someone else would not.
I believe the psychiatric profession has long known this. As have other contingents in our society
This is the nonsense conspiracy part of it all, I guess. Yes, I think they expected evidence to support their hypotheses and premises. Not just that mental illness (or the mental illnesses, plural, as they would have us believe they exist as discrete and specific ailments) have biophysical origins but that the specific psychiatric medications that have come into being since the 1950s were in fact specifically ameliorating “chemical imbalances” i.e. neurotransmitter overabundances or shortalls and/or unusually high or low receptivity to them. They expected the evidence to bear all that out and show the world that they were true science-based professionals. But they’ve known for quite some time now that it just ain’t so.
Psych medication helps some people, but it most absolutely and positively NOT like insulin helping diabetics. Somewhere between how advil helps headache-sufferers and how a couple martinis helps a lonely person: symptoms are relieved, in a fairly clean and helpful way for some but in a way that backfires with negative long term results for others.
The psychiatric profession keeps making the “chemical imbalance” / “it’s a brain condition” claim anyway. They’re lying through their collective teeth.
The pharmaceutical industry is very much on board with it. They sell the pills.
Neurologists and medical researchers and scientists in general have varying degrees of awareness that there’s a high bullshit-to-veracity ratio in the field. They roll their eyes some but they seldom attach the professions involved.
Partly that’s because psychiatry performs a social control function that many people in society appreciate. Marginalized people’s reaction to an unfair exploitative misery-generating frustrating world might be disruptive, and the people who would most likely find it disruptive are the safely ensconced well-salaried professionals who have predictable lives. So what if the psych line about mental illness and chemical imbalances etc isn’t exactly how things really are? It relegates people’s cognitive and emotional chaos to the status of meaningless brain-static. It depoliticizes it. It decontextualizes it.
Psychiatry performs that social control function even without reference to forced treatment — just by giving us propaganda that says if your thoughts and/or feelings make you incapable of continuing an everyday adaptive life (or at least the one you’re currently living), the problem is inside you. And we have a pill that will make some of that go away.
My other theory, which may be more suitable to The Game Room, is that Arizona sports teams keep hiring “double agents” in the front office. When the Suns hired Steve Kerr, I think we was working for the Spurs in order to keep the Suns from making any improvements.
Same with the Diamondbacks and Tony La Russa. he was hired to make sweeping changes and improve the performance of the team. All he’s done is fire or trade all the favorite players, and hire a bunch of under performers like Shelby Miller and Zack Greinke*, who were both supposed to be aces, but are a combined 2-4. I think la Russa is actually on the Dodger payroll.
*I think Greinke is also still on the Dodger payroll.
This isn’t a conspiracy. The government does everything it can to destroy the value of education and escalate its costs. They’ve decided that skeptical, smart and informed citizenry is the worst possible thing for America.