The off topic thread 4.0

[Zidane98]

The Flint water crisis is the government's doing and that's pretty sickening

Yes that is pretty stupid what they did but hardly a conspiracy to deliberately murder 3000 of its own citizens in broad daylight. Goes back to what makes 9/11 conspiracy theories so laughable (and why they've all been debunked).

 

[jd2010]

Yes that is pretty stupid what they did but hardly a conspiracy to deliberately murder 3000 of its own citizens in broad daylight. Goes back to what makes 9/11 conspiracy theories so laughable (and why they've all been debunked).

Oh I'm not questioning that. Just more that government's dont harm their own people

 

[SM]

Oh I'm not questioning that. Just more that government's dont harm their own people

Actively. They don't actively harm their own people. They don't plant bombs in ****ing buildings.

 

[jd2010]

Actively. They don't actively harm their own people. They don't plant bombs in ******* buildings.

They didn't make the water dirty. But they did choose to give it to people when it wasn't even fit for use at a car manufacturing plant

 

[RPCB]

They didn't make the water dirty. But they did choose to give it to people when it wasn't even fit for use at a car manufacturing plant

I am currently watching the Michael Moore Fahrenheit 11/9 documentary. The General Motors plant in Flint were allowed to hook back up to the Lake Huron water supply but only GM, not the residents who continued to drink contaminated water. You know because we can’t have the rotten water supply damaging GM’s bottom line but screw the people. Disgusting stuff.

I’d recommend anyone watch the Fahrenheit 11/9 documentary. There is a big section dedicated to the Flint water crisis. A lady who asked to hide the data of kids tested for lead after drinking the water showed Michael Moore a sheet of paper with data where a normal level would be a 3.5 or below. Every kid on the sheet of paper tested between a 6 and above and the highest tested 14. Many older residents in Flint have died of Legionnaires disease since consuming the water.

 

[WealstoneRaider]

People who believe in conspiracy theories are probably the same people who hire out private detectives to follow their wife to see if she is cheating. I mean where does the mistrust begin and end? You must have serious trust issues to be a conspiracy theorist. That’s my take, it’s displays characteristics of an individual who is not healthy of mind

 

[SM]

People who believe in conspiracy theories are probably the same people who hire out private detectives to follow their wife to see if she is cheating. I mean where does the mistrust begin and end? You must have serious trust issues to be a conspiracy theorist. That’s my take, it’s displays characteristics of an individual who is not healthy of mind

No surprise for me that jod believes them.

 

[jd2010]

There's believing in them and there's finding them interesting.

 

[SM]

There's believing in them and there's finding them interesting.

Jod clearly believes them mate.

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

There's believing in them and there's finding them interesting.

I find them interesting, don’t necessarily believe any of them but they’re cool to watch.


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[jd2010]

Jod clearly believes them mate.

Oh yeah I just wasn't sure if WR's post is more directed to those that give them the time of day or are fully fledged believers

 

[SM]

Oh yeah I just wasn't sure if WR's post is more directed to those that give them the time of day or are fully fledged believers

And there's the trap of operating like Cruyff and not quoting the post you're responding to.

 

[jd2010]

And there's the trap of operating like Cruyff and not quoting the post you're responding to.

It's the 6th of Feb and you think I should quit my 2019 mantra of "be more Cruffy"?

 

[WealstoneRaider]

Oh yeah I just wasn't sure if WR's post is more directed to those that give them the time of day or are fully fledged believers

What do you mean “give them the time of day”? Some conspiracy theories slightly more plausible than others, but all the main ones I’ve looked at are pie in the sky stuff. 9/11, moon landings, Princess Diana, Reptilians (lol) etc. All for fantasists at the end of the day. If you need an escape from reality there are more productive ways

 

[jd2010]

What do you mean “give them the time of day”? Some conspiracy theories slightly more plausible than others, but all the main ones I’ve looked at are pie in the sky stuff. 9/11, moon landings, Princess Diana, Reptilians (lol) etc. All for fantasists at the end of the day. If you need an escape from reality there are more productive ways

Listen to / watch them and look into the facts a little bit.

The moon landings is one of the only ones I give more credence to. There's something fishy about that "happening"

 

[Cruyff14]

It's the 6th of Feb and you think I should quit my 2019 mantra of "be more Cruffy"?

Slow down big fella, you might propose soon if we're not careful!

 

[jd2010]

Slow down big fella, you might propose soon if we're not careful!

Nah I've tossed it in being more cruffy was a tough 36 days. I think I said back in my day about 100 times!

 

[Zidane98]

Listen to / watch them and look into the facts a little bit.

The moon landings is one of the only ones I give more credence to. There's something fishy about that "happening"

After looking into it closely I don't give the moon landing conspiracies much credence at all really. The biggest hint is the Soviet Union and/or Russians not crowing madly about it being a hoax. They were embarrassed in the race to the moon and would be the first ones to prove it was a hoax.

Secondly, there is absolutely 100% no doubt all of the Apollo missions were launched into space (can't fake rocket launches, witnesses, families of astronauts etc etc). There is no dispute over when it returned either (5 days later). In that time what did the astronauts do? If they didn't go to the moon again surely the Soviets were tracking them and would have been all over it.

All of the crap about shadows and flags has been debunked.

 

[Fwoy]

Debunked is your new favourite word Z

 

[Bojan KantKick]

Just because a government provides a half assed explanation for something, doesnt mean it is debunked. Granted it is usually to hide their own incompetence / gross negligence.

 

[charcoalchicken]

All of the crap about shadows and flags has been debunked.

It has?

 

[WealstoneRaider]

There were photos released recently of all the equipment still there sitting on the moon - the space buggies etc. How many missions to the moon were there, must have five or six. Were they all faked? Why would they have kept on faking missions (with the space race already won) and just how many people would have been in on it in order to keep it a secret? It’s about as credible as the whole “Paul is dead” thing

 

[RPCB]

There were photos released recently of all the equipment still there sitting on the moon - the space buggies etc. How many missions to the moon were there, must have five or six. Were they all faked? Why would they have kept on faking missions (with the space race already won) and just how many people would have been in on it in order to keep it a secret? It’s about as credible as the whole “Paul is dead” thing

The real Paul faked his own death and went off to work for NASA to fake the Moon Landings with Brian May.

 

[Fwoy]

You’ll all love this one then...

 

[Zidane98]

You’ll all love this one then...

It's disturbing that these sorts of conspiracies get any sort of credence. Some of the so called "crew" who are still alive are actually siblings of the killed astronauts, some don't look like their namesakes (must have been hard to find a Michael Smith who looked remotely similar). I would hazard a guess to say you could find people with similar names to those that have died in any tragedy if you searched long and hard enough unless they had a really unusual name.

And to suggest that the astronauts just continued their normal day to day lives with the very same name borders on insanity.


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