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I should also add that this is one of the oldest and most famous antisemitic conspiracy theories, predating the whole modern conspiratard movement by quite a bit. Goebbles, for example, made a propaganda film about them, but it was a famous antisemitic trope way before that as well. They're the original "international Jewish bankers" neo-Nazis love to talk about.

This whole article is a pile of shit, but this bit really makes me mad:

>In my favorite book of all time, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the main character becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about reality, a truth so beautiful and ancient that few could deny. He eventually got electroshock treatment for his so-called dangerous mental illness.

Robert Pirsig didn't get electroshock therapy because he sometimes had a big idea, it was because his personal and professional life were collapsing around him. His wife and son would have to patrol the neighborhood to find him wandering the streets in a daze, so fixated on thinking his way to Truth that nothing else mattered. The whole book is basically about how we can only find metaphysical truth in the physical world around us... not by hallucinating and freaking out, but by fixing a motorcycle, or any number of other mundane experiences rooted in the here and now. Pretty bold of "Vironika" to call it her favorite book when she so clearly missed the point

This is correct. If you take a cross section of Detroit's top-earning companies, they fall into three categories.

• Car companies
• Companies that make parts for car companies
• Utilities

Detroit is more or less where Pittsburgh was in the 70s and 80s when the steel industry imploded. But hey, Pittsburgh looks like this now, so it does get better. Eventually.

You can actually check them out here. A repeating comment I'm seeing is he "loves to hear himself talk" and that he is "more interested in his strict classroom policies than actually teaching".

EDIT: A few "hates America" ones in there as well.

There are also a suspicious amount of 5 star reviews for this one:

Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1620872129/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_XD1Oub1FQR37Y

And of course they upvote a Joseph Goebbels quote that, no surprise, can't be verified.

Then there's lots of accusations of emotional arguing, apparently no one ever disagrees with them because what they claim can't be supported by facts and evidence, but because we think it's comparable to our mothers being called "whores". Forget the fact that I'm not even American, and thus haven't the slightest feeling of allegiance towards that country's government, they are simply scrambling to dismiss people for disagreeing with them.

This is form letter 1A type stuff. They couldn't think for themselves even if they wanted to... which they don't.

laissez-faire is a form of capitalism. Also it's not what America does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire#United_States

The definition is for the government not to interfere in the free market at all. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/laissez-faire

I'm dying here:

> "The Protocols of Learned Elders of Zion" fit what is happening in the world right now. How is that possible they were written over one hundred years ago if they were a fake or forgery? https://archive.org/details/TheProtocolsOfTheLearnedEldersOfZion[1]

Nobody can be legitimately this dumb, right? Right?

It took a few seconds to find a thread on Metabunk, discussing the claims about NASA trying to do evil.

As such, there is not much more I can ridicule, although I must note that this "newly revealed NASA FUTURE WARFARE DOCUMENT" is a PowerPoint presentation from 2001 that can be accessed freely via archive.org.

Oh please. If you want to get really crazy - I mean plumb, mad-dog crazy - you have to get crazy about something completely inconsequential. Time Cube's crazy is about a conspiracy hiding the true form of mathematics and the nature of the universe. John Ellis's crazy is about water, something which is completely fundamental to all life. Both are things worth getting crazy about.

Dare you gaze upon HYBRID: The RPG? Take the craziness of Time Cube, throw in the complexity of Synnibar and Traveler, and add just a touch of racism and sexism. Enjoy.

If you know of it, it's not a successful conspiracy.

On the other hand, establishing and maintaining successful conspiracies is about half of "The Art of War."

In other words, the absence of evidence for successful conspiracies combined with the fact that we have large, competitive civilizations that nonetheless frequently avoid overt conflict despite our highest hopes and greatest fears (cf, spear-rattling in favour of election-year warfare against Iran) tends to suggest that conspiracy to achieve reasonable, mutually beneficial foreign and domestic policy goals is more common than not.

For that matter, huge swaths of the history of the last 30 years in domestic conservative policy might be termed conpiracy - in the sense that it was conducted within an echo chamber of true believers toward ends that only they would think good, and while these meetings and efforts were not unknown, they were being ignored as irrelevant by those who thought critical thinking to be an important skill to have.

And as a result, you end up with the modern GOP, founded upon a low-grade conspiracy to take over low-level offices and work know-nothings up the ranks until they could become elected as state reps, governors and US lawmakers, without having had to confront reality based policies once in their political careers.

Sometimes circumstances conspire with us to give us what we think we wish and the universe thinks we probably deserve to get.

8chan (sometimes referred to as infinitechan or fullchan, to distinguish it from 4chan) has a number of child porn-friendly boards. While the content skirts the bounds of the law (many of the images being shared are not strictly pornographic, but they're certainly children in sexual/seductive poses and the like, which are technically legal), it's certainly fucked up. They also have ran afoul of their registrar for child porn, which temporarily resulted in the domain being pulled.

Now what does this have to do with Gamergate? Well, 8chan's biggest boards are their versions of /v/, /pol/, and /b/, as well as /gamergate/ (as GG discussion was banned on 4chan fairly soon after the stupidity started). /b/ is /b/, but the other three are intertwined with Gamergate as closely as Reddit's own KotakuInAction. Gamergate supporters have an explicit interest in maintaining 8chan as a place for them to congregate (as well as communicate regarding doxxing and threats sent to people against GG - just within the last couple days, someone's dog got killed in a SWAT raid that was caused by a fake call after a doxx).

As such, they have been defending 8chan's complicity in child pornography (which, as shown by the link above, is completely undeniable). This ranges from, "it's fucked up, but it's legal, so they have a right to post it and therefore shut up," to "there is no child porn on 8chan" to "Dan Olson [the guy who wrote that article] downloaded and distributed child pornography!" The last one they justify by pointing to that article (in which he took screenshots with the offending images censored/blurred and labeled accordingly to demonstrate just how much CP was there).

But abolishing minimum wage IS a good idea, it is an ugly and ad hoc regulation. There are far better systems that can accomplish the same effect (preventing the "choice" between working for very small wage or having no income) without the downsides of minimum wage. Negative income tax based welfare systems come to mind:

Contribution Bonus tax and welfare framework

There is simply no need for minimum wage with NIT systems such as Contribution Bonus.

The idea of transparency in a government is one that a hell of a lot of people support. I personally dont believe transparency is always needed, but that is a political matter that I really dont feel is necessary to discuss. Anywho, Assange basically played that Manning kid and is, essentially, the reason that that kid is rightfully in jail.

Also a hell of a lot of dissidents, if you want to classify Assange as one, follow the system even when it wants to 'prosecute' them. They go to jail and serve their time which riles up their followers and gets more people to support their cause. Assange is wanted by the Swedes for a rape, not this whole wikileaks scandal. Hell, the US government hasnt made huge strides to 'get him' him anyway. I think Assange is using wikileaks as his cover to not talk to the police since he probably did rape that chick. Have you ever seen his OKCupid profile? The dude was a creepy as fuck narcissist.

Anyway, I'm ranting too much because I dislike the guy and his organization, which really did not leak anything shocking or important.

probably not: >militia (n.)

>1580s, "system of military discipline," from Latin militia "military service, warfare," from miles "soldier" (see military). Sense of "citizen army" (as distinct from professional soldiers) is first recorded 1690s, perhaps from a sense in French cognate milice. In U.S. history, "the whole body of men declared by law amenable to military service, without enlistment, whether armed and drilled or not" (1777).

18% of Americans say that the Sun revolves around the Earth. So do 16% of Germans and 19% of Great Britons. (Linky)

You might think that I'm making a point that 10% to 20% seems to be the percentage of people you can get agreeing with anything stupid. It's not though. I'm just upset that they made a movie about 2012, but haven't made an action disaster film about the Sun revolving around the Earth.

I recently lost the hilarious "solicitation letter" in a HD crash and now only have the not-very-spectacular December 1990 newsletter (in which it is revealed that gay rights is statist; Martin Luther King was an equal opportunity pedophile; and that the concept that condoms prevent HIV infection is just propaganda and the only safe sex is between husband and wife).

Is there a comprehensive collection of his newsletters in fulltext somewhere?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/feminism-subreddit-moderator-believes-in-mens-ri

http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/12z51p/message_i_just_got_from_a_mod_over_at_rfeminism/c6zh71b

so on and so forth. it's not exactly a secret.

It's all documented...

[Ghostface Killah]

Most people say the Clan was missin since I got dropped offa radio

Overnight your whole style was bitten in the process

Everybody switched they names like

Whatcha call it, any fast (?)

It was the Gods that repped that, sharkskin dark skinned bitches

Clarks from Digi left the game dizzy

Ooh got busy, that dancey shit slid through

We had to stay hood cause that's who we been through

RZA came through, mastermind got the cash and power

Proof that power plastered divine classical lines

Mathematical rhymes, the style is unbearable

Now niggas with the radical shines

It's Ghost-Deini, every coast need me

We back motherfucker that's right, it's the W.T.C

World Trade Center, Wu-Tang Clan

We brought so much heat that we was givin you tans an' shit

sorry, true believers. there is probably not a wormhole under your sink.

on the upside, if you give me $100, i will show you how to travel to the future (rather slowly).

bonus: an explanation video!

I read his posts just to see how far he can move the goal posts and deny responsibility for providing rebuttles. For those checking this guy out, read the context of his conments to see his full idoicy. Without a doubt, if you said "You have the burden of proof" he would respond with stupid statement like "You asked about it, you provide proof" or "Do you have proof that I have burdon of proof" or some shit like that.

I think I may have figured out his hap handed theory.

Basically, we live inside the earth, light bends 'Up' towards the center of the earth (this is what he means by 'light bends UP'). This somehow corrects itself as to make the earth like 'normal' and not like a hyper fisheye shot. This explains supposedly explains why we can't see the whole earth at the same (had light travel in a straight path) time like you could in Halo

Edit: Decided to just explain what I think his theory is all about.

> Yes but NYtimes didn't cover the story when they found out who actually did it

You mean like this: www.nytimes.com/2016/12/21/us/mississippi-church-fire.html

> and also didn't cover for example the live video of black people torturing a white guy for being white.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/us/chicago-racially-charged-attack-video.html

Have you ever seen the Nytimes, at all? It is really strange that you'd accuse them of these things, when you can find these articles with a 5 second google search.

What is the problem exactly?

>They see admiralty law as being the law of commerce, the law of ownership, citizenship, and indeed anything else ending in "-ship." They see evidence of this in various nautical-sounding terms used in court, such as "dock," "birth (berth) certificate," "-ship" suffixes and any other fancy word they think might have a vaguely naval sound.[34] Freemen will take this further by referring to the court as a "ship", its occupants as "passengers" and claiming that anyone leaving are "men overboard."

Oh those fucking retards. The suffix "-ship" on these words has not one thing to do with ships. It derives from (Edit: ... a previous form of...) German "-schaft," meaning: "state, condition of being." Source.

Don't forget Hyperdesktop. ctrl+shift+4 to take a selective screenshot, a box pops up that lets you draw lines, edit the image or add text, and it immediately uploads to imgur after you hit 'ok'. Whole process takes less than 10 seconds.

Great assessment. Thanks for posting.

I too was a big visitor back when UFOs, unsolved murders, and the like were on r/conspiracy's front page. I don't know what the fuck happened, but a over few months, it was like every other post was about Jews and Israel.

Here's /r/conspiracy on Dec. 24, 2008:

https://web.archive.org/web/20081224050918/http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/

The Jew-bashing post is all the way at the bottom.

Yep! It started with a £100k 30 day campaign, after about 10 days it had reached the total so he increased it to £300k. His followers lapped it up and donated more.

No one has received the original incentives yet for donating, yet people again are giving willingly to this second campaign.

A fool and their money as they say.

If you're curious where this benchmark is:

http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.aspx?PID=GU0103

When you look at data from the same area like:

http://ca.water.usgs.gov/projects/central-valley/delta-mendota-canal-subsidence.html

...I suspect there may have been some systematic error in that fellow's photograph (e.g. elevation/location recorded under a different datum)

It's possible that the first time it was said it was real and the bots all copied it.

Example of a similar event.

I've tried out dozens over the years when something that intrigues my inner geek pops up at http://www.osnews.com

Always had a softspot for BeOS, it was my first. Leo Laporte got me to install it by doing the whole process on a ScreenSavers episode on what was then still ZDTV.

/geekout

Gonna have to agree, just because it shows how seriously willing Neo Nazi retards are to deny history when it's inconvenient to them. If I wanted to kill all the Jews again, ("Gas the kikes, race war now!") why wouldn't I own up to my predecessors?

Most holocaust denial hinges on this one inconsistency here (like Zyklon-B residue not being found where it should be, or one survivor who partly fabricated his story so all survivor testimonies are bogus now), as opposed to literally every other piece of evidence gathered in support of the event.

By their standard of evidence, The Diary of a Young Girl alone should be enough.

Yep. Nobody.

Certainly nobody important.

First, it was $2.3 trillion, not $3.2. And it doesn't "go missing". The issue (which had been reported as early as March of 2000) was that there were $2.3 trillion in charges that had incomplete accounting data.

"Crimes committed by your people"...

LOL. No worries, the conviction only exists in the kangaroo court of the tards minds.

Mark Roberts, steward of sites.google.com/site/wtc7lies/, said that truther justice means that the defendant is guilty until proven innocent, the prosecution could use hearsay and speculation without objection, and the defense witnesses are discredited by default. No evidence of the defense is admissible and the defense cannot object "asked and answered".

Truthers don't accept jury trials either, not only because they don't accept that the jury is out on this one, but the only sentence the idiot sovereigns believe the word "jury" belongs to is "nullification".

I am not going to remain ignorant just because it is /r/conspiratard.

No, you're going to remain ignorant because you're ignorant. Clearly you're perfectly willing to believe whatever bullshit that's spoon-fed to you by the other idiots in the truther movement. I would suggest to you that you get yourself an education and a good place for you to start would be right here. Now, shoo. Your idiocy sickens me.

According to this article that's just a mistranslation but that just begs the question; why didn't God just translate all the bibles himself?

First two links when you google that after his reddit userpage:

http://hubski.com/pub?id=137852

https://www.change.org/petitions/newt-gingrich-remove-bipolarbear0-from-any-and-all-moderator-positions-on-reddit

Classic.

No worries - some of this stuff is tricky to google as well due to propaganda and disinformation campaigns conducted against Americans by the psychopaths in KSA

I didn't realize white women voted for Romney, I was just basing my opinions on what I'm hearing from the right.

It makes sense if they're all the wives of the republican white men.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/what-the-2012-election-would-have-looked-like-with

The man is a legend. I've seen this audio overlaid on clips of Glen Beck and it works so well. People found him before he died, but got nothing out of him. The themes expressed in his rants are pretty similar to your average conspiracy theorist, like being surreptitiously poisoned -- via medicine (anti-vaxxers), in the water supply (fluoride), or chemtrails. Similarly, the government is wholly utterly aligned against you, and Dec was obsessed with courts personally ruining him and that theme is very present in your average conspiracy theorist.

Edit: oh yeah, he was also obsessed with Jews.

All recordings: https://archive.org/details/CYC-009

Final edit: This video is awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OzxNM8Nlsc (music is Venetian Snares: Americanized)

I think that's more your perception then them actually being that unfair in their reporting. It's easy to bash corporate media as being bad, because the fact that it's corporate is already making us feel a bit uncomfortable, but it's not nearly as ideologically driven as f.e. infowars or breitbart.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/us/black-church-burned-in-mississippi-with-vote-trump-scrawled-on-side.html

On this incident, nytimes goes out of their way not to accuse anyone. They do point to Trump himself in the article, but that's hardly controversial, the fact that Trump is a divisive figure can be backed up by the fact that someone thought he was so scary, that it was a good idea to attack a black church purely for the false flag impact it might have on the election.

>how to refute dumb nonsense like this?

You probably can't, but maybe invite him over to the house to discuss it over a meal of Matzoh Brei.

Drugs make money - The only conspiracy I believe in is the Conspiracy of Greed

People will do stupid things for money, like trying to smuggle heroin in dead vet's caskets.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19721217&id=dxgfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LJwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7248,3280169

> What is good for the Jews is bad for everyone else

holy fuck...

throws up the Bagel I ate for breakfast

btw, I checked out the one quote by Coudenhove, as this got me interested and I never heard of that guy before. Who would have guessed that it it 1. is translated wrong and 2. taken out of context. Source

youtube context

tldr; Terral Croft thinks you should bug out to caves in the Ozark Mountains on govt lands to avoid all the nasty apocalyptic effects of the brown dwarf star, comet elenin, hitting earth or something.

even the conspiratard weatherman yt user dutchsinse gently called him insane. did i mention terral was previously connected with a convicted pedophile?

The blog is private now, but you can find the post here, when you search for ASMR (Ctrl-F, not the site's search).

I'd check to see if he has an entry on http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/. If nobody mentions a mid-semester gotcha and it seems like he's a legit crank, I'd be so tempted to totally start screwing with this guy.

Another Jew here. Someone was also spewing the whole 'oh, it's only offensive when it's about Jews' thing, ignoring the fact that a) the magazine has done caricatures of Jews to no complaint and b) we on the other hand don't exactly have a history of reacting badly to humour.

It annoys me that out of the three Abrahamic religions, what with the molestation scandal in the Church and the extremism in Islam, we're almost certainly the most peaceful. Yet according to /r/conspiracy we control the banks, the media, Europe and America, we want to kill the Arabs, we're all fascists...it never ends.

Here's the academic link to this Top Mind's thoughts on our society & criminology:

https://www.academia.edu/5166492/What_can_government_agencies_do_to_help_address_issues_of_crime_Nothing_thank_you_very_much

Holy Hell, one of them attached to me /u/Yamfood and is arguing that we have no way of knowing anything about our planet/Universe because gov't cannot be trusted. Not now, not when Copernicus was alive.

This guy wrote a paper & posted it online to his Criminology professor, where he argues ALL CRIME is essentially victimeless drug crimes and the state is the real criminal.

https://www.academia.edu/5166492/What_can_government_agencies_do_to_help_address_issues_of_crime_Nothing_thank_you_very_much

This Conspiratard is now in college and spreading his "Truth"

I am working on my Masters in Microbiology. I have read The Wealth of Nations, Das Capital and The General Theory of Employment Truthfully I don't believe you about working on your masters, I can go on Youtube and type in my professors name and he will come up talking to Greenspan and Chompsky. He said that the Keynesian Economics is the accepted model. I have never heard any other Economist say other wise. The people who hate the Keynesian system are people who have never been educated before.

The submission and comments are a mix of conspiracy theory and patchwork politics. Someone ranting about EMTALA (shitty though it is, emergency care is a tiny fraction of costs), a long-form reply that is pretty much Capitalism and Freedom regurgitated, a lot of hard-libertarian absolutism etc.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/malcolm-x-assassinated

From "Violence and New Religious Movements, I believe I was a bit mislead over the extent of violence that NoI had committed, and that most of their violence was due to internal conflict rather than external conflict. However, I have never heard of any Scientologist assassinations of dissidents or anything like that, just shunning and harassment. Note that the book is saying that they were relatively nonviolent for a cult, not that they weren't violent. There are some FBI files from the 50s I found as well, but I didn't know how much to trust those given the racist tone they took.

And yes, it's real

>From the Hebrew barúkh habá, “welcome”, literally “blessed is he who comes

The context there seems really antisemitic. The French had demons saying, essentially, "Bless you"or "Welcome" in Hebrew, but it was evil because they're jews? Interesting. Neat etymology.

1890, from French brouhaha (1550s), said by Gamillscheg to have been, in medieval theater, "the cry of the devil disguised as clergy." Perhaps from Hebrew barukh habba' "blessed be the one who comes," used on public occasions

I thought the exact same thing. The only conspiracy here is them wanting to sell you more shit. Google pretty much knows what you're thinking, not because you're very interesting (I don't know that, you could be super interesting) but, because it allows them to sell more products and ads. This isn't evil, it's actually quite clever. I suspect their research and experiments with driverless cars might have something to do with creating free time. Free time you can spend using chrome to browse the internet, and buy shit.

update: (dutchsinse)[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCdUtPa8DRI] is rage quitting on the issue in the face of a complete analysis by a professional geographer, and is trying to make a copyright claim on the video of his video, lol.

The molten metal found at the base of the tower was molten iron.

Citation needed. Please provide a link to a chemical analysis of the metal which proves it to be iron.

Thermite was also found in set iron.

Citation needed. Please provide a link to a credible scientific paper done by a responsible scientist that proves that there was thermite in the building.

Building 7 fell at near free fall.

https://sites.google.com/site/wtc7lies/introduction

If it helps, Magic Actions for YouTube allows you to block all comments. This is my favorite option personally, though the Herp Derp probably keeps your kids laughing at least. It also lets you 'turn off the lights' and view videos on a black background, FWIW.

Basically, yeah. But what I am on about is the harm done by mass confusion of dissent... by the security services, but unrealized by the public (most of the public, up until recently).

Little bit of info here https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

Looks pretty small (about half the size of DC). This sort of shit has definitely gotten harder with things like google maps.

...ah, USENET, how I miss thee.

HELPFUL HINT OF THE DAY

1 - go to https://www.startpage.com

2 - enter a few words from the submission title in the search box

3 - click enter

4 - set the time frame for a week or whatever

5 - click enter

6 - look to see if you get a result that seems like the submission in the list you get

7 - click on "Anonymous View"

8 - leave an anonymous donation to the conspiratard moderators party fund taped under the nearest mailbox

These really delicious and for those of you that doesn't want to give them some clicks, I will let an archive dot org link

https://web.archive.org/web/20170725215903/https://steemit.com/pizzagate/@mandireiserra/pegasus-museum-and-now-you-don-t-and-pizza-movers

As a rule, when the activity is part of some larger social group, it's not mental illness. Even as crazy as it seems to see people speaking in tongues as part of large church gathering, it's all part of a larger social structure, not an individual's mental issues.

Now, someone can have religious-based delusions when they run off on their own. The creator of TempleOS comes to mind.

> Those ideas are not connected to one another. Maybe an Oxford Dictionary's definition of racism will suffice?

From your link:

>the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races

Maybe an Oxford Dictionary's definition of racism can help you. Same link you provided, I just encourage you to read it.

I have Web of Trust installed because it helps you avoid bad sites that try to give you malware or scam you and shit. It seems people have flagged Monsanto's site as bad. Im looking at the reviews and there's so much conspiracy shit going on and people citing conspiracy sites as "evidence" that ~~~MONSATAN~~~ Monsanto is evil. Here's a link if anyone wants to read this shit. https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/monsanto.com?utm_source=addon&utm_content=warn-viewsc

> "End the Fed" doesn't ignore modern economics. George Selgin, Larry White, Steve Horwitz, Reuven Brenner, Robert Murphy, George Reisman, Richard Timberlake, Steve Hanke, and plenty of other respected economists agree with him. Mainstream macro is idiotic anyway; those dumb asses supported the policies that gave us the housing bubble.

Sounds to me like all those "experts" who think 9-11 was an inside job. Have you read "The Wealth of Nations?" Basically, we're going to have bubbles- and the data clearly agrees with that. People find profit or benefit in a thing and will do it over and over until it's overdone. The measure of a a system is how it prevents that from happening too often or deals with that happening as an inevitability.

I know what you "mean" by small government- but American exceptionalism is about how well all-inclusive government can work. We're a representative Democracy that was the first to overthrow a long standing tradition of the smallest possible government- monarchy. Okay, I guess dictatorship is technically possible as a "smaller" option but all dictators employ some assistants, probably similar to extended monarchy. You're either with representation or with fundamentalism- no men are divine and capable of setting up a system that knows better than the men governed by it. Regular voting, with as many people involved as possible, is inherently better than any limitations on it. It sucks, but the alternative is worse.

>What about your potential cognitive bias? Or are "skeptics" not susceptible to this? what if you are MORE susceptible to it?

Of course I am, I notice these things in my own mind frequently. Theres no shame in it either, its just human nature. Our ancestors evolved pattern seeking mechanisms in our minds as a means to figure the world out and maximize our potential to acquire food and reproduce.

That is why I dont rely on gut feelings or intiution when it comes to certain things. The difference here is recognizing your bias and removing it from whatever it is you're trying to get to the bottom of as best as possible and seeing the situation subjectively.

Do you really want to better understand how skeptics think? Read some books on it. Demon haunted world as I mentioned is a good start. You may also try

Incognito by David Eagleman

Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

The Rational Optimist Matt Ridley.

If Paul Krugman can disprove Austrian economics, why does he refuse to debate Bob Murphy? Even though over $80,000 would go to the charity of his choice?

Paul Krugman used to be a good economist. His book Pop Internationalism is about free trade, which is the libertarian position. He represents the left on economics because there's not very many people on the left in economics, and he makes a ton of money doing it.

Well, the story of Thump the Trump Rump! can be a bit triggering for some people. Republicans will HATE the scene with George W. Then again, even Democrats will likely be uneasy at Hillary Clinton's scenes.

Do you have what it takes to read Thump the Trump Rump?

Speaking of 9/11, a few days ago I finished this book:

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

There wasn't much c0nspirat@rd material in it, but it dealt with much historical background that led up to the event (wink, wink).

i actually really liked this book for this fairly specific topic

it's not supremely comprehensive, but it has a lot of insight into the history of conspiracy theories in America, and gives a lot of nuanced analysis of lots of examples of conspiracy theories through the ages. it's also pretty approachable for the layperson, but manages to be insightful nonetheless. de

it's also worth noting that some countries are more prone to conspiracy theories specifically because of their regimes intentionally spreading propaganda, ie like a huge chunk of Russians subscribe to moon landing hoaxes. that said, I do think there's definitely a difference in terms of how many Americans are willing to jump on the conspiracy bandwagon.

For $35 dollars he would have at least something that looked like a Hollywood bomb.

> Besides, I don't know that I've ever seen a USB hub with an "uplink port" that was USB-A type , rather than USB-B. Most cables with two male ends are A to B. In fact, I don't know that I've ever seen male to male USB cable with two A-type ends in person.

I've got just such a thing on my desk.

I see what you mean, and I stand corrected. I was just trying to illustrate the cable thing. But as a further counter-example, here is one with a male A cable and external power, and another. They were some of the first results for "powered usb hub" on Amazon.

THEM: Adventures with Extremists

http://www.amazon.com/Them-Adventures-Extremists-Jon-Ronson/dp/0743233212/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1436397833&sr=8-2&keywords=THEM&pebp=1436397836151&perid=1JAQYEAVWCJ3QYM5N6SZ

I read the book Ghost Wars: A History of the CIA in Afghanistan from 1979 to 2001. I never was more than 'maybe' on 9/11 being a conspiracy, but reading this and having the endless footnotes killed all doubt. Plus it has the answers he's clearly looking for. And its a damn good story

Read all about it:

(Amazon page:)

Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production Of Hate, by Neil Baldwin

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