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Orrex

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5. I have a similar friend

Reply to frogmarch (Reply #3)

Tue May 31, 2016, 01:33 PM

May 2016

He's a millennial and quite intelligent, has a political science degree and is a strong supporter of Sanders.

And he absolutely believes that 9/11 was MIHOP and that Sandy Hook was a false flag operation.

When I learned this about him, I honestly couldn't stand to talk to him anymore because that kind of idiotic thinking is distasteful.

No amount of evidence will sway him, and every single ironclad refutation is met with the standard CT-zealot's response: he tilts his head slightly to one side, shakes it while inhaling audibly, then say "I don't know, man."

I don't have the nerve to ask him about the moon landing, alas.

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Question about moon-landing deniers: Why is it so all-fire important to them to believe that we [View all] Aristus May 2016 OP

Soviets MosheFeingold May 2016 #1

That's the one I've heard. kentauros May 2016 #7

I think our posts passed in the night MosheFeingold May 2016 #14

Oh, I never meant to imply you said we were faking it. kentauros May 2016 #17

I have a vague memory that these types of conspiracy theorists (faked moon landing, global warming, progressoid May 2016 #2

Not sure it's a right or left issue MosheFeingold May 2016 #15

A dear friend of mine, frogmarch May 2016 #3

I have a similar friend Orrex May 2016 #5

The Sandy Hook thing is especially vile. Oneironaut May 2016 #8

I recently found out about the scope of that harassment Orrex May 2016 #9

I lack the nerve to ask my friend frogmarch May 2016 #13

Scientific American had a pretty good article sharp_stick May 2016 #4

Excellent. frogmarch May 2016 #6

I have a question. CanSocDem May 2016 #10

Buzz Aldrin knew how to answer them. edbermac May 2016 #11

The jerk he punched is frogmarch May 2016 #12

Not a good idea sarge43 May 2016 #16

Go, Buzz. 3catwoman3 Jun 2016 #25

I have a (former) friend who during the past few years has bought into every conspiracy out there. Laffy Kat May 2016 #18

This fellow has an interesting and productive take on fringe thought. PufPuf23 Jun 2016 #19

The Moon Landing was Real Wolf Frankula Jun 2016 #20

"That's no moon!" kentauros Jun 2016 #21

If CT's were just harmless thought experiments... uriel1972 Jun 2016 #22

It's good for some people that crackpots like these feel driven to dig in and stay vocal. Gidney N Cloyd Jun 2016 #23

Just off the top of my head... malthaussen Jun 2016 #24

There's a lot of money to be made. Mendocino Jun 2016 #26

Not sure if I'm a CT but pressbox69 Jun 2016 #27