Re: OT: "We're not treating this as a terrorist attack"

On 1/3/2025 11:25 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 4/01/2025 5:52 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:02:23 -0800, john larkin wrote:
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 19:24:31 +0800, Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid>
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On 02-Jan-25 2:00 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

Is what 'they' said at the outset. Now it emerges he had an ISIS flag
in his truck at the time! No wonder fewer and fewer people are
trusting the legacy media. This is why it's so important to have
citizen journalists mobilised and fact-checking what's really going on
when these incidents occur. I don't suppose the rather embarrassing
presence of the flag would have been revealed otherwise.

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For years the conspiracy theorists were telling us that governments

wereat

using the threat of terrorism to take away our freedoms.
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Now the conspiracy theory is that governments are hiding the existence
of terrorism from us.
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So which is it?
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Sylvia.

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There is no single Ministey Of Conspiracy Theory. There's diversity in
the lunatic fringe world.

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Obama's birth certificate springs to mind here. There are equal numbers of
people calling it out as a fake as there are calling these same people
conspiracy nuts and lunatics.

 It's a lunatic fringe.

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I'm almost nostalgic for the days when birther-ism was the margin of the lunatic fringe, the lunatic fringe has way more nonsensical nonsense to focus on these days..