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A paper published last year found that around half of the American public consistently endorses at least one conspiracy theory, and that many popular conspiracy theories are differentiated along ideological dimensions. Having said that, their research was pre-Snowden revelations, so many of the conspiracy theories may have been well founded.
Even so, the hysteria surrounding Operation Jade Helm 15 seems unusually shrill, with Chuck Norris (ex fake Texas Ranger) urging Texans not to believe government reassurances that it is just an exercise, and Governor Greg Abbott ordering the National Guard to monitor the US military's activities.
So what do Soylentils think? Will conservative Texas, in the words of Freedom Fighter 2127 on YouTube be, "The first state, according to our military source, these are not just drills. Texas will be the first state to be under martial law"?
There are plenty of people willing to point out the lunacy of the conspiracy theorists. Of course, Jon Stewart is one:
"There is no Texas takeover," Stewart said. "The United States government already controls Texas — since like the 1840s. And you left and then you came back. Just borrow a textbook from a neighboring state. It's all in there.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday May 10 2015, @04:25AM
"Consider also that nine out of ten mentally ill people never come to the attention of a mental health professional during their entire lives."
How the hell would you even know that? If they were diagnosed and counted, then they came to someone's attention. Apparently someone has ASSumed that for every nutcase known, there must be 9 more unknown nutcases. That kind of extrapolation is pure bullshit.
How about, 92% of known intelligent races never make contact with other intelligent races? That makes just about as much sense, doesn't it?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday May 10 2015, @05:23AM
He pointed out that in the US, at the time he wrote the book, there were 30,000 automobile fatalities each year in which the driver was the only person in the car. While some of those are truly accidents, undoubtably many of them are suicides.
It happens that I know four people who are quite severely paranoid. They are all friends of mine. Only one of them has ever seen a shrink. The other three are conspiracy theorists. It's quite disturbing to spend much time around them.
That book I mentioned in the subject, I found in the UC Santa Cruz library.
It's also well-documented to be quite common for UNDIAGNOSED manic depressives to kill themselves. I don't clearly recall how many, but I think it's one out of five. That they were manic depressives is determined post-mortem, by considering how they behaved while still alive.
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(Score: 1) by Bogsnoticus on Monday May 11 2015, @03:15AM
He pointed out that in the US, at the time he wrote the book, there were 30,000 automobile fatalities each year in which the driver was the only person in the car. While some of those are truly accidents, undoubtably many of them are suicides.
Given that a vast majority of americans buy those high "quality" american cars, complete with defects that get swept under the rug due to it being cheaper to pay out the lawsuits from victims families, than it is to do a recall and take the hit on the stock market, would you call them being suicides? More like corporate homicide.
Then of course, we have the lack of seatbelt use, because it's somehow a freedom invading piece of commie architecture. "If I see an accident coming, I'll just brace for the impact."
Don't call it suicide, when it can just as easily be put down to stupidity, and/or incompetence.
Genius by birth. Evil by choice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 10 2015, @06:46AM
The prosecution rests it's case. Thank you.