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jlf1961 -> RE: Fascists At It Again? (11/24/2017 4:22:49 PM)
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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods
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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam
I think the funniest part of this whole thread is that there are people out there who are stupid enough to believe the article in the OP.
From the comments in the article, there are a BUNCH of them.[sm=lol.gif]
Desperate rather than stupid, I'd say, though the two might go together in this form of confirmation bias.
It's the opposite of the whole "eliminate the impossible" in Doyle: you eliminate whatever you don't like for ideological reasons first, then whatever's left, however ridiculous or absurd is believed because it must be true if any alternatives are unacceptable. Best of all, the sorts who think like that believe that they're the open minded ones, and everybody else has fallen for a a lie pushed by a biased media, lacking their insight that lets them see through the leftist conspiracy.
Well, considering the number of right wing extremist journalist who support, propose, promote, extol and other wise spout conspiracy theories, it would seem, at least on the surface that the belief in conspiracy theories walk hand in hand with ultra right wing views.
For example, during the election, Alex Jones, Breitbart and other ultra right wing broadcasters spoke extensively on pizzagate linking a child trafficking ring to the DNC, Hilary Clinton and other prominent democrats, to the point an armed man went to the pizza parlor in question to 'save the kids.'
Even stranger is the fact that these same ultra conservatives will talk up chem trails, FEMA detention centers, New World Order conspiracies, and then link it to all to government activities even when a republican is in the white house. And they voted for the Republican to boot.
These websites have posted pics of AMTRAK carriage repair centers, satellite photos of work camps (in north Korea) supposedly in Montana, and even US Army installations that are used to train escape and evasion techniques to troops in case of capture as proof of these camps existence.
When Obama was president, there was a mad paranoid ranting about DHS buying a few million rounds of ammo in various calibers, completely ignoring the fact the same type purchase was made during the Bush administration.
And when you take the listening audience of Alex Jones, Breitbart and similar radio shows and pod casts, compared to registered republican voters, it boils down to about forty percent of conservatives in America believe the bullshit, and manage to convince a lot of others that there may be truth in the theories.
The best example of the high rate of people believing this stuff is a few years ago when some conservative local talk show host in Arizona said that a Texas ranch outside of Del Rio had been taken over by a drug cartel and there was a shoot out with local and state cops.
The Del Rio police department and the county sheriff department was flooded with calls from all over after the story hit the internet.
It never happened, and after attempts to prove that it never happened, many kept screaming cover up, including a person that used to post on these boards and advised everyone to buy silver.
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