It’s always a bit uncomfortable when I’m having a conversation with someone and they drop the:<\/p>\n
“Sandy Hook\/9-11\u00a0<\/em>(insert conspiracy here)\u00a0was a hoax”\u00a0<\/em>thing on you.<\/p>\n It isn’t uncomfortable for me discussing the possibility of any newsworthy event actually\u00a0being\u00a0<\/em>a conspiracy, because the U.S. government has routinely engaged in False Flag events and misinformation campaigns.<\/p>\n It is uncomfortable because I really don’t know what I’m getting into.<\/p>\n I have found that the people most likely to engage in conspiratorial thinking represent a few distinctive camps. The problem is none of these people are really\u00a0normal<\/em>, in the sense of being white bread vanilla wafers.<\/p>\n Often, they’re either overly informed or completely uninformed and there’s not much in between. Therein lies the problem.<\/p>\n It is a product of the mainstream media, and whether it is by design, which I believe, or just an effect, it has marginalized anyone with an opinion outside of the status-quo.<\/p>\n Regardless, this is why I can’t engage in these conversations with strangers anymore. Here, in order of appearance, are the people who want to break down 9-11 with you:<\/p>\n 1)<\/strong> The Complete Fucking Moron<\/strong>. \u00a0Sideburns usually. Uneducated an insecure about it, he watched the\u00a0Zeitgeist\u00a0<\/em>movie on Youtube and decided this was his ticket to having an original thought. He is 100 percent certain that 9\/11 was an internal maneuver and he will cite a bunch of information about the rate at which steel melts with a tone much more certain than that of your average Rhodes chemist. He can’t name the three branches of government but can tell you exactly how they work. \u00a0As I’ve always said; I watch a lot of online porn, but I wouldn’t consider myself a gynecologist.<\/p>\n 2)<\/strong>\u00a0The Disenfranchised Guy.\u00a0<\/strong>This guy is informed, of above-average intelligence, and on most counts a rational human. He is in fact\u00a0so rational<\/em> that he now believes\u00a0absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n You can’t blame him, he knows everything from the fairly obvious\u00a0Kennedy Assassination\u00a0<\/em>fiasco to the more easily provable\u00a0George W. Bush Earpiece<\/i>\u00a0debacle\u00a0and everything in between. The problem is, this guy is essentially a Political Lesbian<\/i>.<\/p>\n He’s been fucked over by the system so much that he can no longer trust it – even when its telling him the truth.<\/p>\n When Twinkies <\/em>were pulled from shelves, he theorized that the Tea Party may be building bombs from the trans fat.<\/p>\n While I certainly sympathize with this dude, he is always Alex-Jonesing<\/em> to not believe, and at a certain point it becomes ridiculous and invalidates any of his more sound points.<\/p>\n 3) The Off-His-Meds Guy<\/strong>. This guy often correlates political happenings to events in his personal life. If he just got laid, he believes in HOPE. If someone threw a sandwich at him while he stood at the bus-stop, he shifts into manic mode and intertwines stories about Castro and the CIA with those of a chick named Chelsea.<\/p>\n The problem is that this guy seems normal until you actually flip his switch by pointing out that Newt Gingrich is fat while you nervously stare at muted CNN on the flatscreen of your dentist’s waiting room. That’s when he loses it and you’re in for the long haul. \u00a0He’s one of the main reasons I don’t broach politics to strangers.<\/p>\n Let’s go into this a bit deeper in Parts II and B12. Sorry, I don’t know Roman Numerals, they’re pointless and pretentious. That’s why the NFL uses them. Anyway, Parts 2 and 3 are forthcoming.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s always a bit uncomfortable when I’m having a conversation with someone and they drop the: “Sandy Hook\/9-11\u00a0(insert conspiracy here)\u00a0was a hoax”\u00a0thing on you. 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