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Downtown Hound

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18. Oh, there's a whole community of people that claim they were brainwashed, CIA assassins.

Reply to John Fante (Reply #17)

Fri Aug 16, 2019, 05:13 PM

Aug 2019

Not just that, but they think that every mass shooter is. It's either an attempt to create fear in the population or an attempt to pass gun control laws to take guns away from real Americans so they can put us all in concentration camps. Depends on who you ask.

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In the strange, strange, world of the anti-conspiracy theorists: [View all] Girard442 Aug 2019 OP

anti-conspiracy theories! HeartlandProgressive Aug 2019 #1

And a very truthful one. n/t MarcA Aug 2019 #10

! FiveGoodMen Aug 2019 #2

So what do you think Klebold and Harris actually were? Downtown Hound Aug 2019 #3

Well for one thing, the fact that they acted Solomon Aug 2019 #8

Well, yes, but somehow I have a hunch that the OP was alluding to something a little more than Downtown Hound Aug 2019 #15

OP doesn't say they had a plan ... mr_lebowski Aug 2019 #29

So what is he saying? Downtown Hound Aug 2019 #30

Oh and, never once, in anything I have ever read about WW2, have I heard the V-2 rocket Downtown Hound Aug 2019 #4

The "strange, strange world of the anti-conspiracy theorists" is called reality. W_HAMILTON Aug 2019 #5

So your reality accepts non conspiracy before the evidence is presented. n/t MarcA Aug 2019 #11

Pretty much -- as it should be, in my opinion. W_HAMILTON Aug 2019 #19

But wait! True Dough Aug 2019 #6

It makes you not serious. n/t MarcA Aug 2019 #12

I'll own that! True Dough Aug 2019 #13

The British government tried to suppress knowledge of a weapon against which there was no defense. Girard442 Aug 2019 #7

Conspiracy Theorist a term used on those whose conclusions differ MarcA Aug 2019 #9

"whose questions make those norms unsustainable" John Fante Aug 2019 #16

I need to go to the hospital maxsolomon Aug 2019 #14

Columbine is a conspiracy theory now too? Since when? John Fante Aug 2019 #17

Oh, there's a whole community of people that claim they were brainwashed, CIA assassins. Downtown Hound Aug 2019 #18

9/11 was just some really BAD piloting. Crunchy Frog Aug 2019 #20

Said no one ever. n/t Downtown Hound Aug 2019 #21

In that case it was a pretty elaborate conspiracy. Crunchy Frog Aug 2019 #22

except for Bush librechik Aug 2019 #23

What was his first thought? That it was bad piloting? John Fante Aug 2019 #26

yeah, he said he thought "That's one terrible pilot" librechik Aug 2019 #32

Yes. He said he "saw" the first plane hit the Tower and thought it was a bad pilot. Midnight Writer Aug 2019 #33

It's not as if the attacks were covered up to look like an accident John Fante Aug 2019 #34

His favorite book is, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." Downtown Hound Aug 2019 #28

Oh FFS... SidDithers Aug 2019 #24

You did not mention Turbineguy Aug 2019 #25

Strawman much? Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2019 #27

Here's one: Hani Hanjour was just a random schmo who took some Cessna lessons ... mr_lebowski Aug 2019 #31

What do you make of the dozens of people (driving on the I-395) who clearly saw a commercial John Fante Aug 2019 #35

You apparently didn't read carefully ... mr_lebowski Aug 2019 #36

The Paranoid Style in American Politics. MicaelS Aug 2019 #37