Not sure what you're trying to say here. Do you actually think that Satanic child sacrifices among the super rich is a valid conspiracy theory? That's well into Alex Jones territory.

Reminder that MB is a racist troll and not worth replying to.

LOL fanaticism.

Well, Brawndo seems to be the voice of sanity here, which means that my go-to move is to pray for death.

To answer SolRo. If it turns out that the rich are trafficking children so that they can rape them, that pretty much scans. If it's so they can drink their "adrenalized blood", that's a little too fucked up. Yes, if that turns out to be true, you can color me surprised.

there are all kinds of beliefs in Asia about living/suffering animals being tastier or having special properties when eaten so I wouldn’t be surprised if some crazy old rich bastard made the jump to humans.

Also widely publicized research about “young blood transfusions “ making old mice more vital surely is causing a couple unlicensed quacks to offer it to their rich crazy clients.

Also human trafficking is a major problem


Not saying it’s happening but I wouldn’t be surprised if it ended up on the news one day

@JHM to be clear I would, in fact, be quite surprised if it turned out the rich were drinking tortured adrenalized child blood. (Now, leveraging their wealth to go ahead of a chold in an organ donation queue, or buying a third mansion with the proceeds of massively jacking the price of children’s leukemia medication...)

My objection is to the messenger. MB’s modus operandi for a few years now has been
1) handful of reasonable posts
2) disgusting race baiting in the comments
3) flooding the hopper with race baiting videos
4) when called out on it, pitch a self-pitying hissy fit, flounce off the site, come back in a few months at step 5

He seems locked in this cycle so the best we can do when he comes back is encourage him to flounce off again as early as possible.

But Hazelnut, don't you know that Marlon Brawndo is one of the few among us, perhaps the ONLY ONE of us, who has witnessed REAL racism???

In other words, yeah, I know, Brawndo's the worst. But I agree with him this time. And you do what you want, but I'm only going to hassle him for being racist when he's actually being racist.

Actually, it's when he starts referring to himself as "a free thinker" that I kind of wish that I could somehow use the Dark Side of the Force to vader-strangle him over the internet. Fortunately, I can't. So maybe he'll live to figure it all out one day.

To be clear, an underground black market in the blood of tortured and murdered children would surprise me. Some crazy old rich bastard deciding to become a vampire has probably already happened.

Sound like we’re on roughly the same page.

It stopped being funny for me the moment he got elected.

It stopped being funny WAY before that.

I think the anti-vax movement finally ruined conspiracy theories for me.

It's the internet's fault. In the 80s Alex Jones would have been handing out home printed pamphlets out on the street and broadcasting on ham radio.

No, in the late 1980's guys like Alex Jones rose to fame on AM radio. Limbaugh, Beck, that other fuckwad, etc.

Jones would have found his audience of primarily working-class White men. The Internet just made it easier for those assholes to connect with each other.

Binro, you're right. But at the same time, I think that Beck and Jones are in another league than Rush. Rush is shallow and inflammatory and lots of other things, but he doesn't have the out-and-out paranoid mindset that Beck and Jones have. The bar's been lowered considerably since the late eighties.

Also, Beck really didn't get political until relatively late in his career, and he didn't get famous until he cried on TV after Obama got elected. He was a morning "zoo crew" guy for most of his radio career, and boy, does it show.

I used to collect conspiracy theory books. The wacky ones, not the Protocols of... ones. Sometime after Trump was elected they all went into recycling. It wasn’t funny anymore...

The fact that a bunch of people who met on a web site devoted to weird internet stuff are tired of conspiracy theories probably says something about the world today.

Or it means that we're all getting older.

Beck is typical old school religious fundamentalist. He could have easily been a televangelist because he can cry on cue.

Alex Jones is just plain fucking dangerous because people take the shit he says seriously. The idea that that there are people having conventions over this shit is fucking frightening.

No, the internet is a huge factor, because of the way all these stories cross-pollinate. A quick google of the guy in the video reveals him to be a critic of Trump and an admirer of Ilhan Omar. (He's NOT a fan of Israel. Does that make him antisemetic? Some people would probably think so, I'm withholding judgment. )

But when you look at the youtube comments, they're all plugging this into the usual right-wing bullshit narrative about QAnon and Pizzagate, George Soros and Killery.

Lest we surrender to despair, remember that QAnon happened at the same time as #MeToo. There's a whole lot of truth coming to light, enough so that maybe we can hope to hear in all these outright lies the ring of desperation.

I'm trying to figure out what's worse. Eating Jones's shit and liking it, or hating his shit and eating it all day for years on end anyway.

Well Jones been deplatformed, so he isn't nearly getting the audience he once did.

"dEpLaTfOrMeD" You mean YouTube doesn't consider advocating acts of stochastic terrorism to be commercially viable? Such injustice! I heard my local comedy club deplatformed Bill Cosby! Censorship!

William Burns - I said he was deplatformed. I wasn't complaining about it. I am not a supporter of Alex Jones.

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you people?

Please post some more black trans cringe videos to show me how much you don't support Alex Jones.

Jones didn’t swing into popularity until William Cooper died, a thing Jones had a thing or two to do with.

William Burns, are you talking about the town hall event video? Why would it offend you to submit that? You know people voted it out of the hopper, right?

Why are you offended by my one-star rating?

I never said I was offended by you one starring the video.

I think it's a good video, though. I think it's a five star video! Sorry you didn't enjoy it at all, but I think the craziness seen in this video was a good subject to discuss.

5 stars for that comment.