Grcade Solves: Conspiracies

Preezy wrote:Having listened to the first couple of episodes of Season 3 of the Parapod, I've been reading about the various conspiracy theories out there on wikipedia, managed to get into a proper procrastination spiral

Whilst I don't believe any of them (probably), I can definitely see the appeal of some, they really do scratch a certain itch that makes you think "yeah I could see that happening", even in the face of various debunks. It's a fascinating mindset that these conspiracy theorists have. All good clean fun (except when it's not).

Lagamorph wrote:I love the Mitchell and Webb sketch about faking the Moon Landings where it's basically pointed out that it would be more difficult and expensive to fake the Moon Landings than to actually go to the Moon.

Conspiracy theory, I said in my last standup show, is how idiots get to feel like intellectuals. I still believe this: conspiracy theory is primarily a way for people, mainly men, to appear in the know, to use their collection of assumptions, generalisations, straw men and false inferences to say, effectively: ah, the wool may have been pulled over your eyes, my friend, but not mine.

But there are other reasons why it’s so popular these days. It provides lonely men with an online community of like-minded lonely men. It’s comforting; it’s reassuring. It provides order in a disordered universe to imagine that shadowy forces organise horrific events, rather than to have to confront the terrible truth that death and destruction happen, all the time, apparently at random. And, as David Cameron pointed out this week in his speech on extremism, it creates a way into something else that’s becoming increasingly popular these days: antisemitism.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -extremism

Moggy wrote:I know this isn’t a serious thread

Moggy wrote:

Conspiracy theory, I said in my last standup show, is how idiots get to feel like intellectuals. I still believe this: conspiracy theory is primarily a way for people, mainly men, to appear in the know, to use their collection of assumptions, generalisations, straw men and false inferences to say, effectively: ah, the wool may have been pulled over your eyes, my friend, but not mine.

But there are other reasons why it’s so popular these days. It provides lonely men with an online community of like-minded lonely men. It’s comforting; it’s reassuring. It provides order in a disordered universe to imagine that shadowy forces organise horrific events, rather than to have to confront the terrible truth that death and destruction happen, all the time, apparently at random. And, as David Cameron pointed out this week in his speech on extremism, it creates a way into something else that’s becoming increasingly popular these days: antisemitism.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -extremism

I know this isn’t a serious thread but I thought this was a good article. Seriously, read it all.

Rightey wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Conspiracy theory, I said in my last standup show, is how idiots get to feel like intellectuals. I still believe this: conspiracy theory is primarily a way for people, mainly men, to appear in the know, to use their collection of assumptions, generalisations, straw men and false inferences to say, effectively: ah, the wool may have been pulled over your eyes, my friend, but not mine.

But there are other reasons why it’s so popular these days. It provides lonely men with an online community of like-minded lonely men. It’s comforting; it’s reassuring. It provides order in a disordered universe to imagine that shadowy forces organise horrific events, rather than to have to confront the terrible truth that death and destruction happen, all the time, apparently at random. And, as David Cameron pointed out this week in his speech on extremism, it creates a way into something else that’s becoming increasingly popular these days: antisemitism.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -extremism

I know this isn’t a serious thread but I thought this was a good article. Seriously, read it all.

I read it but honestly I don't think it was all that good. He groups all conspiracy theorists into one bundle of sad lonely men, and that's kind of insulting. I know this is a joke thread, but there have been loads of conspiracy theories that have been proven correct. Lumping the people that believe that the government is spying on you, and those who believe in Lizard people or a flat Earth is like how the right wing in the US group people who want free health care with those who want radical Communism.

Rightey wrote:I know this is a joke thread

jawafour wrote:... an alien species called Zagut whom currently live on the dark side of the Moon.

It’s hard to deny when the facts are clearly laid out.

twitter.com/FlatEarthOrg/status/935644892721762305

Preezy wrote:It begs the question - why are they happy to accept NASA images that show Mars is round (it's not round, it's spherical, but anyway), yet dismiss NASA images that show Earth is round?

ABSOLUTE FUCKWITS!

twitter.com/IllCity_Luck/status/929445648239419393

twitter.com/IllCity_Luck/status/934973080807641088

Peter Crisp wrote:If the sun is so close it has clouds behind it that means we can land on it and start mining.

Moggy wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:If the sun is so close it has clouds behind it that means we can land on it and start mining.

The sun is just a planet that is on fire. Why can’t we just use a fire extinguisher to put the flames out and then just pick up anything that we want?

Obviously it might get a bit cold and dark down here, but there’s nothing to stop us restarting the fire before anything bad happens.