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An Openly Secret Society! The nerve!

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The people that are responsible for these crazy conspiracies take a snippet of rumour here, a story out of context there, mixed with a shitload of paranoia, then dump that all onto the projection that their false prophet spews.

Trump himself has a much larger death count than can be fabricated against the Clintons, all the victims of the Trump Virus in the USA, the deaths he has caused in the Middle East, deaths in the immigrant death camps, the POC killed by bigots who have become empowered by an outwardly racist and bigoted president and his party of degenerates, and innocent protesters killed on Trump's orders.

Epstein and tRump most likely had the most prolific pedophile ring in history. Why run a pedophile ring out of a non existant pizza parlour basement when you have a effin Island for torturing underage girls?

These people must have never heard of Occams' Razor. How many of tRumps friends are pedophiles? The evidence is monumental against tRump, he is guilty of a large proportion of the crimes the right is attributing to the Democratic party et al.

If you want to find a "deep state" it is the GOP, the rich white assholes who are criming, lieing, and are bigots and crooks who are using people to ensure that they stay rich.

Sorry I know I am preaching to the choir here, but it is so maddening to hear these severely psychotic "evangelicals" spouting their nonsense when it is just so damn ridiculous. These people are so far from real Christians that they are embarrassing and sickening.

Shel

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I receive such calls telepathically through the microwaves beamed at my head

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But... no "stupidest man on the internet"?

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The saddest thing about "Conspiracy Theories" and their obsessive nutjob cheerleaders is that the little nuggets of truth within are obscured as we are encouraged to toss out the whole thing. The absolute deluge of JFK theories, for example, help steer attention away from the idea that the case was never legitimately solved, and that the contents and context of Warren Commission Report, shall I say, does not satisfy. Most of us have met someone (or many) who say that space aliens or some such shit pulled the trigger... but does automatically mean that the Magic Bullet theory must be correct?

Likewise, this Lincoln Savings mess. Outlandish claims notwithstanding, there was serious fuckery going on there, connected to the Keating 5 blah blah blah. Let's not allow Nat'l Enquirer style pulp distract from very real crimes committed by rich powerful people. As Robyn shows: Just because Epstein appears on the same page as Comet Ping Pong, they don't both get shitcanned as "Conspiracy Theory."

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Kubrick believed at least a few not-great things, assuming his treatment of women in his films matches his attitude toward them generally.

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Can anyone suggest an article or video explaining why this is crazy without calling those who believe in it crazy? Here in Trump country, I would like to share this info with friends who are getting sucked into it.

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A couple of thoughts after perusing this deranged graphic: 1) They're still all-in on Comet Ping-pong? 2) There's spelling and grammatical errors. "Local law enforcement tried to over (sic) it up." 3) "gangstalking" and "T.I" is indistinguishable from paranoid schizophrenia. Sad. 4) Nazis and Freemasons have ties to the Denver International Airport! I knew it! Third Eagle of the Apocalypse never lies!

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Rothschild DEAD CHILD? "Rothschild" means "red shield" or "red coat-of-arms."

Buuuuut... no conspiracy theory would be complete without the blood libel.

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Regarding the assassination of JFK, what most people forget is that the final "official" conclusion of the US government came from the House Select Committee on Assassinations and found it was likely a conspiracy and that it required further FBI investigation, which never happened. As far as we know.

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You can try the RationalWiki or Wikipedia articles https://rationalwiki.org/wi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wi... but the thing is, as that wacky diagrams demonstrate, it isn't one crazy conspiracy, it's a bib tent conspiracy that just assimilates all kinds of wackiness into itself, so to refute it you have to refute all the nonsense it encompasses. You could point out to them that it all began as a troll post on 4chan, and then it was spread from there.

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The laugh will be on all of them when it's revealed that "Q" is Putin and the GRU.

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Oh. God.With Covid-19 raging through the U.S. and an overgrown baby with an attention span of fifteen seconds who thinks he's always right squatting in the Oval Office, America needs more of this garbage?Back before the 1980s, that Satanic Panic sort of stuff was pretty much confined to pulp fiction and comic books and TV shows like Twilight Zone and Outer Limits. The usual basic plot had a distinguished psychiatrist coming to a mental clinic for a final interview with a patient who raves and babbles in obvious terror about a world wide plot by witches or satanists or aliens to take over everything and plunge the world into a thousand-year reign of horror, and they are about to succeed, but it's just barely not too late and they can be identified (if aliens) by an extra joint on the thumb or (if witches) by the devil's fingermarks on their bodies, placed there at the initiation. The psychiatrist listens sympathetically, leaves, and tells the institution's head that it's very sad but the patient is a total whack job and quite incurable, keep him in that straitjacket forever.Then he goes to his car, and of course the final close-up shows he has - gasp! - an extra joint on his thumb!In honest weird pulp fiction, honestly so labelled, it was okay. It was creepy fun.Now it's all the way into the real world and the whack jobs are out of their straitjackets and padded rooms and won't be satisfied until they get people killed.

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