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Conspiracy Theories Can Have Dangerous Consequences. Here’s Why Experts Say We Can No Longer [tr]
CNN ^ | August 20, 2019 | Staff

Posted on 08/20/2019 1:01:01 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: C19fan

So, basically, non-approved speech is “dangerous”. Uh, huh.

Adults can’t be allowed to play with anything deemed dangerous by the MSM.


21 posted on 08/20/2019 4:20:52 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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Looking into any dem/leftist crime, shenanigans or “coincidence” - like Seth R. getting whacked in a botched robbery- makes you a conspiracy nut.

That’s the message for the sheeple.

The subtext is for those leftists that suddenly develop a conscience; “you would be next”.

22 posted on 08/20/2019 4:24:55 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the disco)
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To: dp0622

None of us did. He did say in numerous interviews over the years and decades before he would be interested one day in becoming POTUS but they just seemed like casual musings at the time.


23 posted on 08/20/2019 4:28:32 AM PDT by xp38
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The May 30 document from the FBI’s Phoenix field office—the first of its kind to examine the threat of conspiracy-driven extremists—also says the 2020 presidential election will likely fuel conspiracy theories, potentially motivating domestic extremists who subscribe to them.

The FBI is laying the groundwork to cover its own evil deeds during the 2016 election coup attempt by labeling any exposed findings of their evil as “conspiracy theories”.


24 posted on 08/20/2019 4:42:14 AM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: odawg

Rush has always had an Overton Window problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

Even if he saw something he liked outside the window he was afraid to go outside and smell the roses. ;-)


25 posted on 08/20/2019 4:42:35 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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I think there have been more dangerous consequences from believing that Vince Foster committed suicide.

ML/NJ

26 posted on 08/20/2019 5:07:08 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: jospehm20

This is the darkest under-belly of the propagandist media; Controlling what is declared “conspiracy theory” versus which conspiracy theories they can call news.

The very fact that they want to denounce conspiracy theories in extreme duplicity considering their track record in recent years, perhaps only to be outdone by MSNBC.

The motive behind articles like this is fear. Fear of losing control of the narrative, and it’s obviously prompted by recent talk about Epstein’s death. The fear is, that death will not adequately cover up the collateral damage he was going to inflict in the political world.

So now, it’s a war on “conspiracy theories”


27 posted on 08/20/2019 5:37:56 AM PDT by z3n
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Good grief. These people are a joke. One of the great media purveyors of conspiracy theories is now warning against conspiracy theories. How about looking in the mirror CNN and noticing your “journalistic ethics” are dropping rapidly to National Enquirer levels.

Of course, they don’t consider that they are peddling conspiracy theories because they check all their stories first with the “experts” that work at the DNC...


28 posted on 08/20/2019 5:58:14 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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Isn’t the Washington, D.C. pizzeria tied to Epstein and the Clinton’s?


29 posted on 08/20/2019 6:02:42 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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The real question is: “If CNN says something and there are no viewers to hear it, are they still full of $hit?”


30 posted on 08/20/2019 6:13:40 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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Conspiracy theories, both powerful and enduring, can wreak havoc on society

Like Russia??
31 posted on 08/20/2019 6:49:01 AM PDT by eyeamok
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I stopped at “FBI says....”. I’m sorry but the FBI has no credibility.


32 posted on 08/20/2019 9:00:03 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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People have also killed for voices in their heads, talking furniture, space aliens, politicians, material wealth, character actors and numerous other reasons. What’s your point ?


33 posted on 08/20/2019 12:42:36 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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