Lately FR seems to becoming a clearinghouse for every fringe conspiracy theory out there. I wish the admins would put a lid on this crap. It makes us all look like a bunch of tinfoil hat nut jobs.
Fringe conspiracy theories have always been dissected, analysed, and rejected here.
There is no “lately” in that.
Scroll past anything you aren’t interested in reading. It isn’t hard to do.
Completely agree with you. At a time when our country is under attack from Russian internet trolls on a huge number of fronts, it is literally unpatriotic to post this crazy conspiracy stuff without taking 5 minutes to debunk what is obviously a totally bogus story first. The headline alone is a troll creation.
Video bloggers think the Bloggers & Personal Forum doesn’t include them.
The whole reason for video blogs is to waste people’s time. Print out their goofy claims and they’d be refuted in a few minutes, so challenge people to waste 20 minutes to an hour and half and hope no one with a brain will waste their time.
Stop it or it will absolutely take over.
There are more of us who disagree with the conspiracy nutjobs. They just post dozens of times per thread, and eventually normal people just avoid those threads.
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>>It makes us all look like a bunch of tinfoil hat nut jobs.
10 years ago, people on FR used to say that about the “fringe nutjobs” who believed that there was actually only one UniParty that was playing us all for fools and that a secret government made up of bureaucrats (now known as Deep State) was running it for shadowy masters.
So you have no questions about this shooting? Some of us would rather have more information not less.
I agree. At a minimum could all the theories be consolidated in a tin foil thread.
“Lately FR seems to becoming a clearinghouse for every fringe conspiracy theory out there. I wish the admins would put a lid on this crap. It makes us all look like a bunch of tinfoil hat nut jobs.”
I agree with you. It’s as if FR is sounding like DU.
You rang?
I am not so dismissive overall as I think there is a lot more than the 2nd amendment hating Vegas sheriff is admitting to or competent enough to figure out. We might error on getting too far afield in believing and disbelieving.
I miss the days of contrail and HARP threads.
I can't help but think this place would be full of 9/11 truthers had Al Gore won in 2000.
Excuse me.
This was a well written account of one victim’s night. This is no conspiracy. The poor young woman lost her life directly because of her experience. She leaves a three year old child.
Just read her account of her night as her personal experience and say a prayer for her family. So sad.
Its none of your business what others think of you. Be strong. We are on the right side. Fear of others criticism is just what has ruined the GOP and the establishment conservatives. Let the wackiness flow. Some of it will turn out to be stupid. So what?
Isn’t your rant a conspiracy theory unto itself?
Sometimes a paranoid is correct, someone is out to get them.
Same with a