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isn't this a conspiracy theorist channel?***
Jun 19, 2014, 4:30 PM
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Of course. It didn't fit your story line of PNAC pandering?***
Jun 19, 2014, 4:36 PM
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This just confirms it***
Jun 19, 2014, 4:39 PM
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Re: Some conspiracy theories are true. just saying.***
Jun 19, 2014, 9:24 PM
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The problem is the belief that there are always sinister forces standing behind and in control of nearly everything that happens, and unfortunately, it's a way of thinking that has plagued libertarians for a long time. Hofstadter called it "the paranoid style in American politics," and mainly applied this analysis to the John Birch Society- an organization that still has some influence among radical libertarians.
Here's Hofstadter:
"When I speak of the paranoid style, I use the term much as a historian of art might speak of the baroque or mannerist style. It is, above all, a way of seeing the world and of expressing oneself. … [T]he clinical paranoid sees the hostile and conspiratorial world in which he feels himself to be living as directed specifically against him; whereas the spokesman of the paranoid style finds it directed against a nation, a culture, a way of life whose fate affects not himself alone but millions of others...
One should not be misled by the fantastic conclusions that are so characteristic of this political style into imagining that it is not, so to speak, argued out along factual lines. The very fantastic character of its conclusions leads to heroic strivings for “evidence” to prove that the unbelievable is the only thing that can be believed. … What distinguishes the paranoid style is not, then, the absence of verifiable facts (although it is true that in his extravagant passion for facts the paranoid occasionally manufactures them), but rather the curious leap in imagination that is always made at some critical point in the recital of events."
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+1.***
Jun 19, 2014, 4:33 PM
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Why do people make videos instead of just writing it down?
Jun 19, 2014, 4:44 PM
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Smells like propaganda. tl;dw
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No matter what political party we support. I think we .....
Jun 19, 2014, 8:01 PM
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all have more personal things on our plate to worry about what's happening in Iraq at the moment.
I guess I'm being snarky, so nothing personal. But I don't give a d@mn at the moment. Let them figure it out!
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