The Election Thread

[GONNAFISTYA]

I have a feeling Romney will win.

I disagree...

Why?

[xer0s]

I have a feeling...

[GONNAFISTYA]

I disagree...

[Captain]

I have a feeling...

Is it Glenn Beck's feeling?

[seremtan]

that feel, america...

[Eraser]

Geoff, any word on how the Obama registration made this weather conspiritously happen?

[seremtan]

holy fucking dogshit

[GONNAFISTYA]

Conservatives are profoundly retarded.

[scared?]

Ppl know Alex jones is just having fun and making money right? He's just trolling ppl...

[seremtan]

i used to believe every batshit word he said until one day i got concussed by a giant cock and came to my senses. now i tell people he's trolling so they won't think i'm a gigantic moron for having believed him before

there, i translated that for you

[scared?]

Lol ur dumb...like a moron...

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

No he's pretty much bang on.

[GONNAFISTYA]

I have several FB friends who post this crap in their news feed constantly...it's all they talk about. I've blocked them from my news feed because after several futile attempts to point out how retarded their conspiracies are it's clear these people cannot be reached with rational thinking.

Alex Jones is the highest order of snake-oil salesmen and, unfortunately, he knows EXACTLY how stupid his audience truly is...so he'll never stop.

[Ryoki]

I've oft wondered where the term snake-oil salesman comes from. Was it people who sold oil that was to cure everything from lepra to the plague, made out of snakes? A special oil perhaps, that could be applied to deadly snake bites? Lubricant that made your penis larger?

A true mystery, possibly lost in the seas of time forever.

[Eraser]

Wikipedia to the rescue:

There are two hypotheses of the origin of the phrase. The more common theory is that the name originated in the Western regions of the United States, and is derived from a topical preparation made from the Chinese Water Snake (Enhydris chinensis) used by Chinese laborers to treat joint pain.

You're not far off at all. Sorry to shatter your dreams about untold mysteries and whatnot though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil

[MKJ]

Lol ur dumb...like a moron...

[seremtan]

I have several FB friends who post this crap in their news feed constantly...it's all they talk about. I've blocked them from my news feed because after several futile attempts to point out how retarded their conspiracies are it's clear these people cannot be reached with rational thinking.

Alex Jones is the highest order of snake-oil salesmen and, unfortunately, he knows EXACTLY how stupid his audience truly is...so he'll never stop.

one of the most annoying things about Alex Jones - apart from the obvious - is that buried in the steaming pile of caca he shits out on to the internet are a few slivers of truth; warped and distorted slivers to be sure, but vaguely truthy all the same. what prevents him from making something out of those slivers is a refusal to see that things can (and often do) happen as a product of the way political and economic structures are set up. Ron Paul has kind of the same problem; he wants to be anti-war/anti-interventionist, but he also wants to subscribe 110% to a system (capitalism) that creates the conditions for war in its need for more markets and more resources (i.e. other people's)

[Nightshade]

This is precisely why I gave up hope of ever having a rational conversation with 9/11 conspiracy loons. Since I believe that the government knew the attacks were coming and did nothing to stop them so they'd have a pretext for executing their pre-planned wars, I get lots of "WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU, DUDE?" responses from nutjobs that get pissed that I don't believe in all the controlled demolition/missile/drone/Jew-alien-Colonel Sanders triumvirate theories.

Their idiocy makes anyone that questions the government's knowledge look like a kook.

I just can't get over the fact that FAUX News consistently blasts Obama and blames him for everything from volcanoes to the economy to herpes, then turn around and bitch about the "media elites" constantly playing another round of "Romney can't win".

[Eraser]

That's a bit of a broad statement, claiming that people can't be anti-war and pro-capitalism/free market at the same time.

edit: that being in response to seremtan

[losCHUNK]

Met a few conspiracy loons, I tried taking it seriously but they seem to treat the theory like a religion, Alex Jones and the Loose Change crew, I will kick you in the nuts 1 day, I promise. I think Geoffs right, wether he agreed with Mr Jones or not, they themselves distort the 'truth' knowingly, so they're professional trolls getting paid, like those people who sell stories about alien abductions, or just journalism

[GONNAFISTYA]

There's a conspiracy nut posting on my FB wall as we speak...posting links about how governments control weather.

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

HAARP right? That's another one geoff does/doesn't believe in.

[losCHUNK]

No doubt it caused the recent storm that fucked most of America ?, they caused the jap tsunami with an earthquake machine as well ya know *chokes self*

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

Since I believe that the government knew the attacks were coming and did nothing to stop them so they'd have a pretext for executing their pre-planned wars,

After extensively (a while ago) reviewing what evidence there was, I came to the conclusion that the 'they knew and let it happen' theory was a possibility. I never made up my mind one way or the other because there just wasn't enough evidence to know for sure imo. After the recent salon article though, it really does look just that much more possible. Not sure I'm totally convinced yet because this could be as much about ass-covering as it could be about a deliberate plan to allow the attacks. I assume you've read it?

http://www.alternet.org/story/152735/di ... page=0%2C0

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]