conspiracy theorists can sometimes be right .

go back to some very early Alex Jones clips (from over a decade ago)

rogan featured some of these

he spoke about an island where rich and powerful people went to be provided with sex from teenage girls.

he also spoke about the false flag attack on the US navy which was used a pretext to escalating into the vietnam war.

and how about the so called weapons of mass destruction?

anyone fighting that narrative was put well and truly in the conspiracy theory pile.

Why? Do you believe EVERYTHING a government tells you?



Ardern: I've been watching for some days, and this is not unique to New Zealand, that, in the midst of what is a global issue, as you would expect, there are a number of rumors that would circulate. I am present on social media. I see it myself. I cannot go around and individually dismiss every single rumor I see on social media, as tempted as I might be. So instead, I want to send a clear message to the New Zealand public. We will share with you the most up-to-date information daily. You can trust us as a source of that information. You can also trust the director-general of health and the Ministry of Health for their information. Do feel free to visit it anytime to clarify any rumor you may hear. COVID19.govt.nz. Otherwise, dismiss anything else. We will continue to be your single source of truth. We will provide information frequently. We will share everything we can. Take everything else you see with a grain of salt. And so, I really ask people to focus.

Reporter: The most egregious example of that appears to be this text which originated in Malaysia and has kind of become a viral hoax in Australia and New Zealand. How irresponsible is it… the people that are sharing that news of a lockdown imminent in New Zealand?

Ardern: And look, that's the kind of thing that adds to the anxiety that people feel. So I can tell you this message: New Zealanders must prepare, but do not panic. Prepare. And when you see those messages, remember that unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth. And I really ask people. Just visit COVID19.govt.nz. It has all of the up-to-date information and we will continue to provide everything you need to know.

Sir lastnail wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2023 at 8:08am:



Yes, it does sound familiar.

You've posted it here several times since the start of the pandemic.

And, it is still a load of BS like most of the stuff you and our other conspiracy nutters post here.

Fact Check-Jacques Attali book did not include plan for depopulation by a pandemic

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Also, you'd think the creator of Sir Nail's stupid attached image could at least spell the name right -  it's Attali, not Attalli. It's even shown correctly on one of the images.

Carl D wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2023 at 8:34am:


fact checkers for people who can't think LOL

Carl D wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2023 at 9:07am:

You trust the anecdotal evidence of little old ladies, so, you're not much of a fact-checker yourself.

And I'd bet you'd trust Star Trek's Data if it helped you with the myth that it would extend your life.

If great masses of people maintain a certain belief over long periods of time, one can be fairly sure that there is something in it. This doesn’t mean that the belief in question is true, but it’s unlikely to be complete nonsense either. Myths tend to have a core of truth. For many centuries, everybody thought that the Sun moved around the Earth, which isn’t true; but it was a rational belief all the same, because the evidence seemed to support it. Much the same goes for paranoia. It isn’t true that creatures from Saturn have placed a secret device in your skull to beam your every thought to a control centre in the Glastonbury Tor, but it’s true that a mighty amount of surveillance goes on, much of it secret. Or to put the point more pithily, just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean the bastards aren’t out to get you. No civilisation in history has ever spied on itself so relentlessly.
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Conspiracy theories are also reactions to a diffuse, fractured, conflictive society in which there are just too many competing narratives around, so that falling back on a grand narrative which makes sense of everything is profoundly appealing. For a blessed moment, the whole lot falls neatly into place, as an opaque, impossibly complex world becomes luminously simple, purposeful and transparent. Because these myths spring from insecurity, which in turn breeds hatred, the grand narrative in question is almost always a sinister one. Anyone with an eye to how the world is going will have no quarrel with that, even if they don’t believe that Nancy Pelosi is a North Korean spy. They will have no quarrel either with the central assumption of the QAnonites and their ilk — that behind the surfaces of social life there lurks some exceedingly nasty realities, and that the official story is rarely the whole truth of the matter. What you see is most definitely not what you get. The good news is that no conspiracy can be entirely successful, since if it were we wouldn’t know about it.
https://unherd.com/2023/02/conspiracies-are-the-price-of-freedom/
Terry Eagleton is good when he is not talking up socialism.

Sir lastnail wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2023 at 9:15am:


How would you describe sources like "rumble.com" and "t.me/covidbc" then?

Anyway, I can see that this is still a complete waste of my time so I'm out.

Sir lastnail wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2023 at 9:21am: