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- Beeswax17
Out of touch of conspiracy theory generation has become the mythology of modern times.
It makes the most ignorant to feel ahead of the society, they feel like they hold some precious knowledge that hasn't been gained by the masses especially by the learned, educated or "elite" as they love to think.
This inferiority complex is remedied by this feeling of privilege. They don't care about logic, explanation or proof.
The painful reality of their shared status is the only driving force.The only treatment for them is the access to affordable education.
If quality education continues to be unattainable for them, they will continue to get stronger until they take over and live in a completely surreal world that they created and keep suffering.- True, but I know lots of well educated, and "smart" people that "live in a completely surreal world..." tooOBBTKN
- “Anti-intellectualis... has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means...renderedred
- that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimovrenderedred - Maybe they think they are not educated or successful enough. There has to be some inferiority.Beeswax
- They consider education a conspiracy too.monospaced
- Bennnsplaining will turn into a very profitable job in the futuregrafician
- fact checkers paid six-seven figures in a post-truth societygrafician
- @bees there is definitely an inferiority complex at work. and yes, they denounce education too. ignorance is bliss ;)renderedred
- @Bees, GPWM. However academia is showing signs of becoming an environment that prioritises feelings over facts. A groundswell of anti-Scientific Method...Morning_star
- @Bees, GPWM. However academia is showing signs of becoming an environment that prioritises feelings over facts. A groundswell of anti-Scientific Method...Morning_star
- it starts back in high-school, they start falling behind their peers, too much partying, slacking, playing hooky they lack the discipline to put in the work_niko
- ....sentiment is paramount in some departments and that ain't good.Morning_star
- they start resenting the nerds or the good students, they feel "I'm smarter than them" who needs school. So to make themeselves feel better throughout_niko
- Conspiracy theorists were a better class of people back when I counted myself among them. Honest, verifiable theories on the JFK assassination, etc.nuggler
- the rest of their lives, they cling on to this alternative view of the world this big secret that only they're privy to, it helps them feel 'smart'._niko
- As far as affordable education goes, it never benefits the politicians to have a well-educated populace. Look at the base of the republican party and look at_niko
- most dictatorships worldwide, and when they substitute education for religious indoctrination it's even worse._niko
- could it be people got bored of regular Hollywood gossip and had to spice it up with some more dramatic stuff...islandbridge
- Came to think of this article
https://time.com/568…islandbridge - I don't think it requires any complex explanation, conspiracy theories are just the default mode of human thought. Think about primitive humans runningyuekit
- around in the jungle. They had no idea what the fuck was going on and were constantly searching for patterns in order to survive.yuekit
- Kill a deer and then it rains, well clearly killing deers causes rain. One guy makes up a story about what the stars mean, it gets repeated and becomes ayuekit
- religion. I think it's just human nature to make unfounded leaps of logic and search for meaning in things where it doesn't exist.yuekit
- This tendency is clearly much stronger in some people than others but we're all suspectible to it to a degree, only kept in check by the "programming" of mediayuekit
- and the state. And now that we have the internet, the floodgates have been opened and people revert to their natural tendency to be superstitious morons.yuekit
- Humans are pattern-recognition engines not always helped by having an imagination.Nairn
- I don't agree that conspiracy theorists are necessarily ill-educated, ignorant or suffering an inferiority complex - some of them are just curious ..Nairn
- .. and not entirely trusting or convinced by the standard mass-consensus narrative. Some conspiracies exist.Nairn
- My best friend's smart as shit and spent a good couple of years going down JFK assassination rabbit holes. Fucker could do a phd in it.Nairn
- I'm not entirely stupid and spent a couple of years slightly over-focused on Rense.com and shit like that. Can't say it did my head much good, haha.Nairn
- @Nairn I think Consp. Theorists have their ranks among them. I also believe in certain UFO theories or think that there's more to JFK story.Beeswax
- But I'm not threatened by them or completely lose my mind and reflect that upon ever day of my life. This people are threatened, maybe they always wereBeeswax
- *feel threatened. That's where the inferiority kicks in. Also not only affordable education but we need a different system that's not based solelyBeeswax
- on competition. Like Niko wrote it starts very early on, when they see successfull ones getting rewarded. Also there are other factors like being anBeeswax
- immigrant, minority, feeling second class, poverty. But lack of good education is the common denominator.Beeswax
- Anyone I've ever known who was into conspiracy theories had a few things in common: they claimed to be very religious, and they didn't follow ...Continuity
- ... current events regularly from a handful of news sources. Also, they didn't vote in any sort of election, whether it was municipal, provincial, or national.Continuity
- One had a BFA in theatre arts, but the others had no post-sec education.
Make of all that what you will.Continuity - Oh, and none of them really got anywhere in life. An exceptional lack of ambition, and unrealised dreams that we never gone after.Continuity
- ok, got me on the last point, sheesh.
go for the jugular.Nairn - There have been a few studies that suggest it's a hard-wired tendency. "Illusory pattern perception"
https://onlinelibrar…yuekit - And that unexpected events or a lack of control over your life pushes your brain to make connections that don't exist.yuekit
- https://www.national…yuekit
- I think it all comes down to Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch changing the entire media landscape for the worse.inteliboy
- Your post is so meaningless you can't even define quality education. A typical libtard, focuses on emotion instead of factsHayoth
- hah. defining quality education is a different matter. this post is not about that. Would you like to give us some of your background? Lets see if it validatesBeeswax
- stfu hayoth he isn’t even an American you commie bitchmonospaced
- Projectile9
^ RE Beeswax's post... I'm getting really frustrated with some of my hippie friends who seem to have opened a wormhole from the far left to the far right and stuck one foot through.
This is a message I wrote to a friend who has been sending me all sorts of bullshit, stopping just shy of the 5G / Qanon shit. I'm really losing my patience with people like this, and have called loads of them out on Facebook. (and lost a few FB friends in the process)
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ok so let me see if I've got this...- Covid isn't a real pandemic it's just like the flu. The people that died didn't die because of Covid
- BUT if someone dies after taking the vaccine it's 100% because of that.- If someone gets ill 3 days after taking the vaccine, it's 100% an effect of the vaccine.
-BUT the vaccine takes 21 days to reach efficacy, and anything that tells you otherwise (like Google) is wrong- Testing doesn't work
- BUT if an area is rife with infections it's because they're doing more testing-Vaccines don't work because we don't know enough about them
- BUT Ivermectin and Hydroxy are safe to give to anyone and not promoted by pharma companies at all-This is all clearly a conspiracy by big pharma
- BUT not those drugs-There are just as many people dying as any other year. If you Google it, that data is false because Google's in on it.
-BUT here's a screenshot of a chart I saw on someone's website that is 100% definitely true-You are part of a highly intelligent global elite. Superior to the rest of us sheeple.
- Most of the doctors and nurses working every day with people dying from covid are wrong. So are the millions of virologists, immune system experts etc.
BUT It's the group of self proclaimed doctors that signed a declaration (many of whom are homeopaths and shaman) that are right, and 100% not doing it to sell a book or get people on their web page.At every single opportunity you refuse to believe what everyone else does. You are literally following the exact "alternative" narrative like a sheep. I said Antifa because I knew you were going to say they were there at Capitol hill, because that's what all the QAnon Trump or die people are saying. They throw around words like "critical thinking" and "do your own research" and "mainstream media narrative".
If you told me about an alternative viewpoint that I hadn't already heard of in these same circles, I'd listen up. In fact I have on quite a few counts. But most of it is this exact path followed mostly by neo nazis.
You're aligning yourself with neo nazis and it's a dangerous path.
Please just try to pull yourself out of it for a bit, and if after a few weeks you still believe all of it, by all means jump back in head first and never look back. But I'm willing to bet that when you start to think critically about the "critical thinkers" you'll see how full of shit they are, and how they use certain emotional buttons (like being part of an elite club with secret knowledge) that play to you ego and not your common sense.
- wowmonospaced
- Most anti-vaxxers are hippiesGnash
- all this time wasted on bullshit arguments that ignore reality to cry your existence in the oblivion for an echo what makes you feel less insignificant.sted
- nice! to all those people i always say: tell me something new, something i haven't heard about. never works :)renderedred
- "critical thinking" and "own research" my assrenderedred
- Sums it up nicely, these people are so relentless and so fucking draining. And they have all the time in the world on their hands._niko
- +1 Gnash. Only AntiVaxxers I know are all hippies.Nairn
- if you live in the left leaning city, you're more likely to see hippi anti vaxxers. if you live in right leaning city, you're more likely to see maga vaxxers.pango
- Hippie left and fascist right have merged into a kind of third positionism represented by the QAnon viking guyyuekit
- around where I live, the only groups I directly see/hear against vaccines are black people and trump supportersmonospaced
- Most of the hippies I know are +60 pretty chill, friendly to nature and other people in generel, and staying far away from SOME.islandbridge
- In my experience hippies are people concerned about love and peace where fascist are focused on violence and hate.islandbridge
- and the last 50 years would have
been boring and shitty without them.sted - Hippie is probably the wrong word but there are definitely some people out there who are not conservative but believe a lot of the same stuff as theyuekit
- far right. Or maybe it's the other way around?yuekit
- so far the one anti vaxxer i know is also into Falun Gong shit.pango
- https://gen.medium.c…fadein11
- SimonFFM7
First job in 7 weeks. Damn it felt good to use my camera again. 3 guys, 1 girl. Crazy campaign shoot for a hotel (different and odd).
All of us got tested before the shoot and I was wearing an FFP2 mask the entire time.
Yet, great and fulfilling day.
- 3 guys 1 girl. bowchikabowow~pango
- Fulfilling, hehehe. i got ya, manfuturefood
- Not much nudity involvedSimonFFM
- leather and latex, whips and stuff?
or just a promotion shot...did it include masked shots? I'm seeing the masks popping around random adsuan - No, different concept. Cannot tell before client publishes.SimonFFM
- Great stuff Simon. May the work continuestoplying
- 7 weeks ? that's a whole wasteland man********
- cherub0
@ beeswax: It's ironic that you made that post when the phrase "conspiracy theory" is itself the biggest conspiracy of all.
Look up the word propaganda in a dictionary.
- cherub5
We didn't think the future would be like this.
- Jetpacks, they said. Flying cars, they said.cherub
- Instead we have robots attempting to make everyone into a paranoid schizophrenic. Who wrote THAT book?monNom
- 1984 was supposed to be a warning... not a fucking guidebookPonyBoy
- This current situation has been predicted for at least 30 years********
- i had an inclinefuturefood
- PonyBoy3
I've been absolutely buried in work during month 1 of 2021... I'm still finishing it up but I probably just did the equivalent of 3 months work in 1 month... I've gained weight and my ass hurts but I can now afford (w/my Wife's permission of course) my new M1 chip MBP (as I'm still working w/ a 2013 machine). :)
- jtb267
Every time I think “wow this has been a long day/week” or “I’m tired”, I get a little weepy over how much worse it is for so many others.
Hang in there. I appreciate you all.
- dbloc15
My sister-in-law still argues that most of what Qanon has put out is true. Her name is Sue, but we call her SueAnon.
- LOL!oey_oey
- double LOLRamanisky2
- If Johnny Cash were alive he would have a thing or two to say about SueAnon.tincin
- invite SueAnon to join QBNKrassy
- ^oey_oey
- Thoughts and prayers :/pango
- LOL!dorf
- SueBNmort_
- yes! sueanon should be here!renderedred
- I see a sueanon and yurimon forming a league with special powers!CyBrainX
- dkoblesky2
The thing about Qanon is...people have always had crazy conspiracy theories about things. That is just human nature. They just kept it to themselves or within a small circle...
What is different is that the President of the highest office of the land supported and enabled it....so yeah way more insane people are coming out of the woodwork...even getting elected to Congress.
That is why it is good that congress is smacking down that Greene woman....they have to draw a line so we can push the crazies back to the fringes.
But it is work.... thank got Dems have a majority...slim as it is
- The thing about Qanon is...people always want to post about it into the blog instead of the conspiracy related threads.sted
- So, the communist, socialist pedophile, children sacrificing, Chinese pizza overstock cabal isn’t real?monospaced
- In the same breath these nut jobs will say the left is the stupidest fucks alive, but then give them credit for the biggest elaborate coverup of all time.monospaced
- And say they’re so good they can rig an election without their side being able to expose or stop it.monospaced
- Nairn0
A friend is setting up a business and the name has two letters,. neither of which make any sense in context of his name, or that of the person he's working with.
I ask him and he responded "It stands for Cock and Balls".
Ok then.
- We're professionals, booger breath!DRIFTMONKEY
- Yeah, I hope he has a better interpretation to offer should one of his clients ask.
Daft bugger.Nairn - i like this friends attitude. we need more of this.capn_ron
- Is the business male prostitution?oey_oey
- In a manner of speaking.
They give good wood.Nairn
- robotinc2
I am very happy to not see the trump thread at the top of the menu. Posting here to not bump it myself
- Gardener2
I've just found and ripped a cassette tape of the original session with Birmingham band Novak. All 7 of them squashed into the tiny old studios and recorded 4 songs for The Garden in May 1997 a full 2 years before they recorded their only other radio session for some chap called John Peel. I will be mixing the tracks into a new mix for broadcast in a few weeks time for my show and I can tell you now that they sound really good, this is one of their lovely singles.
- NBQ00-2
Replaced my Samsung Galaxy S10 with a S21 and feels underwhelming. Mind you the S10 is a 2-3 year old phone. There used to be a time when upgrading to a new gadget or smartphone gave substantial new features and benefits but I think we hit a plateau. Yes the new one can do 5G but that is not really available that much yet. And yes maybe the camera got a little better but I don‘t care so much about that.
I got no dopamine kick. I feel empty, my life has lost any meaning. Oh the humanatee.
- I need a phone that shoots torpedos.pango
- Pango, I just want a phone with a headphone jack. Now i can‘t even listen to music until I don‘t get new headphones. Oh the humanatee.NBQ00
- get a pixel 4? headphone jack is still out there if you want it that bad.pango
- now if i can only get a phone with torpedos.pango
- I want a phone with a submarine so I can play with pangooey_oey
- Buying things is such a pre-2020 vibe********
- It came with a contract. A contract with the devil. For 2 years.NBQ00
- Im still on the S10, dual sim, external storage slot, fuck iphonesGuyFawkes
- Good enough for me for a couple years stillGuyFawkes
- Still waiting for Apple to do something they can copy. Of course.monospaced
- what other new innovative things can phone dev do now? foldable phone is still a dumb idea.pango
- Don't worry Apple will show us. :)monospaced
- Sure mono. Just like Apple always lags behind in hardware design since many years :) - And I hope they can get rid of that nasty notch.NBQ00
- (ps when I speak of hardware design I meant only smartphones).NBQ00
- ********-3
Imagine a world with no cellphones
- John Lennon once made a song about that.NBQ00
- Lol everyone here remembers a world without cell phones********
- drgs2
Every time I turn on linear TV: a rerun of Crocodile Dundee, if not the first then the second movie
- Confession time: I've seen neither. Ever.Continuity
- you're in a vindalooprenderedred
- Firstest worldest problem ever!********
- "linear TV"i_monk
- lol @ 'linear TV' i gotta use thisKrassy
- What's the proper term? Terrestrial tv?drgs
- Dictatorship TVKrassy
- Broadcast.i_monk
- ********0
Does your job tell you to include your preferred pronouns in your email signature?
- They make all employees include a photo of their genitals in their email signature along with a link to birth certificates and set change documents.monospaced
- set ?********
- What kind of QAnon bullshit is this?palimpsest
- sex change docsmonospaced
- Set mine to DiamondBallsshapesalad
- It's not required but yes. I can see how that could be helpful to declare to the recipient of an email appropriately address the sender in responses.shellie
- Who talks about the person they're talking to and needs any pronouns other than you/your?i_monk
- ^when referring to another, whom you've not met, with the wrong pronoun in other meetings - hear it all the time.whatthefunk
- If I've not met (had an email from) them, there's no way I'll know what pronouns they sign their email with.i_monk
- ********2
Partitioning my external SSD drive with Debian and MACOSX, compiling GNUstep Objective-c programs, this is power.
- robotinc17
Technical interview in 30 mins for a job I am stoked for. Note to self, don’t fuck this up!
- Just be cool, you won't fuck it up.
Good luck!Nairn - prepare talking point notes to keep you focusedimbecile
- mention QBN for extra bonus points and respectfuturefood
- good luck!utopian
- Good fortune.DRIFTMONKEY
- Candles lit. Good luck!!OBBTKN
- LOL yeah mentioning qbn gets you hired 100%renderedred
- "i'm a semi anonymous member on an obscure forum full of weirdos from all over the world. and yeah, there's the useful thread"renderedred
- sorry :) best of luck robotrenderedred
- You got this !Gnash
- Lol @rrOBBTKN
- I got a call back for a second round of interviews. This is one of 11 companies that have contacted me since September. Maybe this one will think I'm useful.CyBrainX
- Best of luck in your robotic endeavors.CyBrainX
- It's been 6 hours... how'd it go?PonyBoy
- All I had to do was present the LOLcube, and I got the job!robotinc
- Seriously though not that bad. I expect I'll move on to step 4, the presentation / full day interview.robotinc
- Full day interview?! GrossGnash
- Just be cool, you won't fuck it up.
- section_0145
I watched Coming To America over the weekend, and I cannot get the "Soul Glow" song out of my head.
- imbecile4
saw the front page post regarding PrayStation... thought some might like a trip down Joshua Davis PSB memory lane