The GD forum is chock full of nutballs right now.

[SmileyBoy]

I had all I could take last night, but I decided to still check out some more...:crazy:

MIHOP'ers, Conspiracy nuts, Insane rumours about naval fleet excersizes in Africa hinting towards meteors hitting the earth (which have been debunked, BTW), Bilderberg, 9-11 was caused by this, 9-11 was caused by that, etc. etc. etc... UGH. I'm just gonna stay in the lounge.

I should have NEVER gone to GD last night. A lot of that crap really pissed me off.

Oh well...

[matcom]

1. as a LIHOPer, all i can say is....

thank GOODNESS you didn't include ME :P

[SmileyBoy]

4. Hell, I believe in LIHOP too, I just think MIHOP is insane...

REALLY insane...

[k in IA]

2. Did you dip your toes in with a post or just run?

[SmileyBoy]

3. I put in a few posts...

Conspiracy nuts get pissed off when you quote Colonel Jack Ripper (from Dr. Strangelove) to them.:D

[Spider Jerusalem]

22. We must not allow...

Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, and the insidious Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids!

[SmileyBoy]

24. That's why I only drink rain water and pure grain alcohol.

:D

[H2O Man]

5. regarding conspiracy theories:

"A friend constantly called me up to confide that he had discovered various new aspects of a plot. The ring ring's phone plot, for instance. A quick look at an area code map shows that the assignment of area codes follows no discernible pattern at all. Why? And the phone numbers of nearly everyone we knew were divisible by three.

The plots of Them, in fact, became so incomprehensibly multifarious that it seemed the only way to avoid them was never to leave your room or, ideally, your bed. But that might be playing right into Their hands."

-The Sytrawberry Statement, by James Simon Kunen

[CatWoman]

6. ....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1720469

[Wonk]

7. *snarf*

:crazy:

[Rowdyboy]

8. Yeah...pretty strange

Oh, well....

[MikeG]

9. Go back to GD. I heard they got a new theory about W and OJ.

You'll never believe who the real killer is.

[papau]

17. Last I heard (NBC today) OJ is pissed at former wife -she better watch out

Why is this guy getting air time?

[tjwash]

10. I do have some pretty good discussions there though.

The problem is, is that people do not know when to ignore someone, when they say something out of left field.

Or is that just part of the conspiracy?

hmmm:tinfoilhat:

[bacchant]

11. Hmm... I'm leaning toward MIHOP, anything you wanna tell me?

[WoodrowFan]

12. yes, paranoid schizophrenia is treatable. (NT)

[Red State Rebel]

18. ROFL!!! n/m

[bacchant]

29. Heh, good one.

Since you've obviously got it all figured out, at least enough so that you feel confidant maligning the mental health of people with a different point of view, why don't you tell us exactly what happened on 911. And while you're at it, if any of you "sane" folks are Christians, please include your well-reasoned account of the creation of the world.

[WoodrowFan]

32. go back to sleep

and dream happy dreams of vast conspiracies so you can feel superior.....

[bacchant]

34. What? I thought you were going to dazzle me with your logic.

Look D-bag, it's you and the smug weenie who started this thread, who feel superior. I don't know Bush was complicit, anymore than you know he wasn't. If you're going to accuse people of being unstable simply because they're willing to ponder all of the possibilities, you deserve the heat.

[PVnRT]

35. Wow

I didn't know that Christians were all Creationists. Thank you for telling me what I believe.

And as soon as you MIHOPers have proof that is anything mroe than sepculation, hearsay, and blogger opinions, let me know.

[WoodrowFan]

13. look for the lingo

Any time you see a phrase like "chemtrails" you know the tinfoil hat brigade are loose and off their medication.

[SmileyBoy]

20. I wish there was a tinfoil hat smiley put next to any threads and posts...

...that had conspiracy-nut leanings, so I could just ignore those.

[DS1]

14. Well yeah, look who's modding it

:evilgrin:

[nostamj]

15. yeah, but where else can you find a good TOON thread?

hmmmmm..... ??? ;-)

[Taverner]

16. Well, for the sake of GD a lot of the threads were jokes

The whole "masons and Cia" threads were kind of a joke

[mot78]

19. Don't forget the Berg tinfoilers

Although they've died down.

[SmileyBoy]

21. Yeah, especially the Nick Berg tinfoil hatters.

:crazy:

[SmileyBoy]

23. I forgot who said it, but he/she once said:

"Sometimes, things are just exactly the way they seem."

[mot78]

25. The funniest MIHOP theory I've seen involves a missle hitting the WTC

from United Flight 175 (the one that hit the South Tower). The only evidence is a blurry picture of the side of 175 with something jutting out. If there really was a missle pod attatched, wouldn't the passengers, air traffic controllers, millions of people who saw 9/11 on tv, notice it?

[Enraged_Ape]

39. Better yet, why would you shoot a building you were going to crash...

a jetliner into anyway?

:shrug:

[drumwolf]

26. i hear you

But it's not only the conspiracy theorists who get on my nerves. Sometimes I'll see posters acting like the left-wing equivalent of Ann Coulter, by which I mean they make hysterical and completely over-the-top hyperbolic rhetoric.

I swear, some of these people should be with International ANSWER, not posting on a web site called "Democratic Underground."

[Padraig18]

27. What do you mean 'right now'?

:P

[salonghorn70]

28. The Nuts On Both Ends

Actually, the far left crazies and the far right crazies have more in common than they realize. I read through this whole thread and no one even mentioned "Snowball." :)

[drumwolf]

36. or, to throw in another Orwell reference....

Emmanuel Goldstein.

[MisterP]

30. oh, you poor, poor thing

Holy Jumping Banana Boats...

[bobthedrummer]

31. I can't tolerate the ridicule of serious subjects-that is the last refuge

of cornered fascists imho.
:hi:
:smoke:

[maggrwaggr]

33. you left out the chemtrails folks.

those people need some serious psychiatric help

[Redhead488]

41. They don't really believe that stuff, do they?

[NMDemDist2]

37. glad to hear the meteors have been debunked cuz that creeped me

out. I usually just read LBN and pass on the GD

[gandalf]

38. You are right. Bilderberg doesn't exist

or if it does, it is a completely normal democratic institution.

Besides, conspiracies don't exist. Whoever claims otherwise is a conspiracy nut.

[Guy_Montag]

40. What's MIHOP & LIHOP?

Sorry for my ignorance, I occasionally head out to GD, but I get fed up with all the tin foil flowing (best verb I could come up with) and generally retreat back in here after a few posts. It's nice and cosy in here. I went to the Israel/Palestine room once, I have some nice scars from that one.

[TOhioLiberal]

42. LIHOP & MIHOP...

refer directly to theories concerning 9/11

LIHOP= Let It Happen On Purpose. Bushco knew it was going to happen and just let it.

MIHOP= Make It Happen On Purpose. Bushco was actively involved in it.

[Guy_Montag]

43. Thank you. n/t