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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Anything that makes the Far-Right butthurt over reality makes me smile. Seeing them whine as they lose - ah, there's few sweeter sensations.
Still, I'm betting that the whole "QAnon" conspiracy theory will be forgotten the moment Trump loses the Presidency - much the same way the 9/11 Conspiracies kind of died out once Bush left office.
Edited by TechPriest90 on Nov 21st 2018 at 12:36:29 PM
I hold the secrets of the machine.
... You sweet summer child.
They haven't died out since bush left office, just last year (or was it two now) they actualy used crowd funding to gather thousands of dollars to try and re-enact 9/11 with scale models to prove that it didn't actualy happen.
....
Until they got shut down by the crowdfunding platform.
For the record, as a civil engineering student, I can say without a doubt that the whole "steel can't melt at that temperature" argument is a load of bull.
Metal doesn't need to reach melting point to lose its tensile or compressive strength and in the furnace conditions provoked by the attacks it definitely lost its capacity of holding the weight of the upper structure of the towers, not to mention that the collapse of one tower probably deteriorated the foundations of the other, hastening it's inevitable fall as a result.
Instead of focusing on relatives that divide us, we should find the absolutes that tie us.Oh I know, it doesn't mater that it cant melt the steel, the steel lost a good 70% of its strength at the temperature, and could no longer hold the weight.
These people are just 100% dumb asses.
Edit: Knowing some engineering, scale models wouldn't even work right AFIAK, because due to square cube law they wouldn't be under the same stresses as full sized towers.... even if you got the materials and other conditions right.
Edited by Imca on Nov 21st 2018 at 9:55:48 AM
After listening to The Last Podcast on the Left's episode on Flat Earthers, I have no doubt whatsoever that people can dismiss any and all information they want to, no matter how factual, if it conflicts with their desired reality.
Sent you a PM with a link.
Edited by sgamer82 on Nov 21st 2018 at 11:17:51 AM
Said Last Podcast episode suggests that part of it is a case of I Just Want to Be Special that the knowledge you're a microscopic speck upon a microscopic speck absolutely does not provide.
Edit Re: Denying reality, to borrow from the LP episode:
Marcus Parks: One very frustrated documentary filmmaker, quoted in a New Yorker article about Flat Earthers, sums it up perfectly.
Henry Zabrowski (reading the quote): You ask someone if their car is blue and they say 'No'. So you say "Okay, what color is it, then?". They say "I don't know, but it sure as hell isn't blue."
Marcus Parks: This is the sort of logic that defines the Flat Earth movement.
The same rationale can probably be applied to more than a few conspiracy theories out there.
A story the LP hosts share in the Flat Earth episode is about an event at a Flat Earth convention where the audience are asked multiple questions affirmatively that are revealed to be questions that indicate whether or not you're in a cult.
Edited by sgamer82 on Nov 21st 2018 at 11:28:50 AM
I'll just mention that the Flat Earth movement has enough followers to crowd fund rockets for its arguable leader to "test" his theories in.
Wouldn't strapping himself to several weather balloons like the Redbull jumper be more effective?
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“This is no joke,” he told the AP. “I want to do it.”
I really didn't want an answer to the question "Who would be an even worse governor of California than Schwarzenegger or Reagan?"
Edited by M84 on Nov 22nd 2018 at 2:57:58 AM
Disgusted, but not surprised

I hope Q turns out to be Mike Pence, and we learn that he was even crazier and more obsessed than we already knew he was. Like, it's all still bullshit, but he totally believes his own lies.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Nov 21st 2018 at 8:12:18 AM