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The *REAL* Power Of Conspiracy Theories:; It's not what you'd think...
Topic Started: Sep 13 2009, 06:25 AM (307 Views)
csadn
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http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstate...ory_id=14258768

"In his book “Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History”, David Aaronovitch argues that conspiratorial fantasy can have dangerous real-world consequences. Hitler read and believed The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a bogus account of a global Jewish conspiracy. So did the founders of Hamas. Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people with a bomb in Oklahoma in 1995 because he thought the federal government was hatching various dastardly plots."

Seeing as how any mention of any topic even *remotely* political touches off the
sort of firestorm which makes folks living in Hamburg, Dresden, Hiroshima, and
Nagasaki shit themselves out of simple nervousness.... :P

"And that's all I have to say about that."
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Sabre_Justice
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Eh, lunatics will latch on to whatever theory is the most convenient for them, or make up their own. Crazies are crazies and something always sets them off sooner or later.

That said, I'm pretty sure there's going to be an act of conspiracy-provoked major violence in the US before the year is out, so I guess you have a point.
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"You see the government, right, they've put cameras in allllll the world's ham."
"No way."
"Yes way. They're called hameras."
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Lothar Hex
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So...does this count as a conspiracy theory in itself? And does a conspiracy about conspiracy theories create inverse conspiracies?
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To be honest, the world's gone to the point anything can be considered a conspiracy theory. A government leader pleaded guilty to embezzlement, conspiracy theory. The lack of response on new jobs, conspiracy theory. The last bog roll used up so quickly, Conspracy theory!
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Maybe they DID put something in the fluoride.
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Sabre_Justice,Sep 13 2009
12:52 PM
Maybe they DID put something in the fluoride.

Yeah. Drinking water.
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Eastwood,Sep 13 2009
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Sabre_Justice,Sep 13 2009
12:52 PM
Maybe they DID put something in the fluoride.

Yeah. Drinking water.

You've obviously never drunk Adelaide water.
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Sabre_Justice,Sep 13 2009
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Eastwood,Sep 13 2009
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Sabre_Justice,Sep 13 2009
12:52 PM
Maybe they DID put something in the fluoride.

Yeah. Drinking water.

You've obviously never drunk Adelaide water.

Given I've never been anywhere near Adelaide, you're quite right.
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Jeffk38uk,Sep 13 2009
11:25 AM
To be honest, the world's gone to the point anything can be considered a conspiracy theory. A government leader pleaded guilty to embezzlement, conspiracy theory. The lack of response on new jobs, conspiracy theory. The last bog roll used up so quickly, Conspracy theory!

Well I certaily don't crap that much so it must be someone using it!
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Eastwood,Sep 13 2009
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Sabre_Justice,Sep 13 2009
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Eastwood,Sep 13 2009
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Sabre_Justice,Sep 13 2009
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Maybe they DID put something in the fluoride.

Yeah. Drinking water.

You've obviously never drunk Adelaide water.

Given I've never been anywhere near Adelaide, you're quite right.

Mind you, I seem to be the only one who drinks it. Straight from the tap. Yeah, I got my feeding habits from farm animals.
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Lothar Hex,Sep 13 2009
09:59 AM
So...does this count as a conspiracy theory in itself?

Depends on whether or not it can be proven beyond reasonably doubt. In this case,
while there's been no actual formal testing of it, it does tend to fit the facts available.

The one I get a lot of, with my connection to the US space industry, is the "faked
Moon Landing" idiots -- the ones who figure "if we can't do it *now*, there's no way
we could have done it *then*".

This is why I carry a Large Mallet Labeled "OFF".... >:)

"We never landed on the Moon!"
[*THWACK*!] "OFF!"

"Tupac was assassinated!"
[*THWACK*!] "OFF!"

"Please, sir, spare some change...."
[*THWACK*!] "OFF!"

[w/ apologies to Richard Hammond]
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I thought Tupac technically WAS assassinated.
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Sabre_Justice,Sep 14 2009
08:35 AM
I thought Tupac technically WAS assassinated.

Chris Rock said it best:

"Everyone says 'Tupac assassinated', 'Biggie Smalls assassinated'. Martin Luther
King was assassinated, Malcolm X was assassinated -- them two n*****s was shot!
Tupac was a great rapper -- school will still be open on his birthday."
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