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I think we may be thinking of the same poster in ED.......He never responded to you posting that metal only needs to be weakened by fire, and not melted to have the towers collapse.



Cause they didn't find airplane bits and no survivors' lungs were burned by jet fuel.......no wait..........



Whose arguent seems to be "THERE WAS A PUFF OF SMOKE!".



Cause there are no Jews in New York!



My personal favorite is David Icke. Reptilians as part of the conspiracy.



I don't think the arguements they give are good for anything except laughs.

Man, my gramma had a book by David Icke.

Seems that old people, especially the WWII era, are /still/ searching for meaning after watching their kids become the hippie revolution and the punk generation.

And it's sad that charlatans will cash in on it. Thus, we shall strike, and by war of attrition and example, erode such fallacies and their s**t-mouthed propagators.

Oh man... If pockybot were to ever post a link that wasn't to infowars.com or prisonplanet.com, I think I would be tickled pink.

When I first started talking to him, he was using a Loose Change thread to preach about is own personal Jesus Christ, Alex Jones. Then, when I started posting about how none of the theories presented in that 'film' could hold any water, pockybot got mad and told me to stop lumping him in with the LC'ers and that he didn't believe that LC was even close to being accurate. Now, mind you, that whole thread before I got there was pockybot basically agreeing with the LC'ers and using that paranoia mind set to sell Alex Jones to them.

A few weeks later, after Rosie O'Donnell started "asking questions" about 9/11 on The View, pockybot started posting about how "Charlie Sheen and Rosie O'Donnell are heroes and should be commended for their bravery." This despite the both of them buying into Loose Change's attempt at historical revisionism... something pockybot denies believing in ( which I find to be rather funny, seeing how his hero Alex Jones does believe in the Loose Change theory.)

So it has become quite clear that either A) pockybot is a liar, B) he suffers from the same selective memory disorder as Alex Jones C) uses every opportunity to push his terribly misinformed paranoid propaganda or D) all of the above.

I choose "D."

Oh yeah, 2-days after the terrible events that took place at VT, pockybot started a thread about a conspiracy theory involving the shooter... 1 hour after Alex Jones posted the same 'theory' on his website.

That said, I would like to amend choice "A" -- A) pockybot is a liar and a tool.

I still choose "D."



A good friend of mine is a avid reader of Icke. It's hard and a bit depressing to see my friend, who is usually an interesting intellectual, talk about Icke and Icke's beliefs. I try to balance my "uh-huhs" with a bit of actual skepticism, so I don't completely turn him off to the idea of critical thinking. confused



He was definitely one of the first wake up calls I got in ED. If someone takes your 200-or-so word post, quotes 20 words of it, and then responds, just leave that thread. If you ever see anything like that, it's a tell-tale sign of them not wanting to understand an argument, but wanting to win an argument by pushing it in their direction.

But how did Simba reach the levers and buttons?

Oh, I got it! That calypso b*****d Sebastian helped him!

I thought this was appropriate. The reason behind the punch line isn't readily apparent unless you read most of the rest of xkcd, but yeah.