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re: 5 Ways Every Conspiracy Theory Makes the World Worse
Posted on 7/15/14 at 10:11 am to Slippery Slope
Posted on 7/15/14 at 10:11 am to Slippery Slope
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#5. The More Information People Have Access to, the Worse It Gets
So the answer is we should tell people as little as possible. The more government restriction to data, the better. Thanks Obama.
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#4. People Are Dying
More accurately the resurgence of Whooping Cough and other diseases is because of hipster moms deciding not to vaccinate and the flood of disease coming across the southern border.
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3. It's a For-Profit Industry
Which instantly makes it evil. As opposed to the gubermint, which loves you all and is made up of people who don't have a selfish bone in their body. Alex Jones is admittedly a nut, but Beck's biggest 'conspiracy' is George Soros, which isn't much of a conspiracy since Soros does all his funding in the open any way, just liek the Koch brothers. "BUT THE KOCH BROTHERS ARE EVIL!" you say. Well so is Soros. Deal with it.
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#2. They Bring Out the Worst in People
So does an NFL tailgate party. So what?
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#1. They Make It Impossible to Fix the Real Problems
No, that would be the lazy incompetents who make up our state and national government.
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Posted on 7/15/14 at 10:17 am to cokebottleag
"conspiracy theories" I happen to believe are true:
IRS targeting political opponents of the Whitehouse
Obama was born in Kenya (Who gives a frick though, his mother was an american citizen, so he could have been born on the moon and been a citizen from birth)
Obama was a muslim growing up (he went to Madrasas, good grief
There was a female pope in the middle ages
The USS Maine was an accident, and the government either knew or suspected it.
IRS targeting political opponents of the Whitehouse
Obama was born in Kenya (Who gives a frick though, his mother was an american citizen, so he could have been born on the moon and been a citizen from birth)
Obama was a muslim growing up (he went to Madrasas, good grief
There was a female pope in the middle ages
The USS Maine was an accident, and the government either knew or suspected it.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 10:18 am to cokebottleag
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So the answer is we should tell people as little as possible. The more government restriction to data, the better. Thanks Obama.
The answer is: Tell people that life isn't always complicated and while skepticism is healthy, it's a two way street. You should be skeptical of not only the government, but what another person is trying to tell you.
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More accurately the resurgence of Whooping Cough and other diseases is because of hipster moms deciding not to vaccinate and the flood of disease coming across the southern border.
We agree with this. :/ EDIT: If you mean vaccination is a good thing and soccer moms ignoring years of virology, epidemiology and dermatology results is stupid as frick.
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Which instantly makes it evil. As opposed to the gubermint, which loves you all and is made up of people who don't have a selfish bone in their body. Alex Jones is admittedly a nut, but Beck's biggest 'conspiracy' is George Soros, which isn't much of a conspiracy since Soros does all his funding in the open any way, just liek the Koch brothers. "BUT THE KOCH BROTHERS ARE EVIL!" you say. Well so is Soros. Deal with it.
Again this refers to the act of healthy skepticism. If there's a profit motive, there's a reason to lie as it directly benefits the person utilizing the information.
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So does an NFL tailgate party. So what?
Life is about limiting bad people, not ignoring them.
A Better Union.
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No, that would be the lazy incompetents who make up our state and national government.
Our government isn't made up entirely of Congress. There are plenty of people who want to do things, but until the internecine conflict in it is quelled through election, it'll continue being that way.
If you vote in a bunch of people who hate government, you're going to see exactly what you're outlined.
This post was edited on 7/15/14 at 10:24 am
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