caryking said:
caryking said:
SmaptyWolf said:
caryking said:
SmaptyWolf said:
hokiewolf said:
Feel like these same things get posted over and over and over and over…..
As long as you've got a huge population of Water Cooler people with zero critical thinking skills who lap up any government conspiracy no matter how loony, you'll have these grifters pumping this crap out to pay their bills.
Well, like an idiot, I looked at his/her post. Shouldn't have done that…. So, to deal with his/her condescension, I'll provide a few facts:
- This man wrote some type of manifesto claiming a bunch of stuff
- This man reached out to another person wanting access to a media type
- This man blew himself up
The why's all that's happened becomes speculative. That said, no one can dispute the above facts. So, getting into the speculative nature of saying things like: "people with zero critical thinking skills" shows the true disconnect in our society. The condescending nature of your post looks more poorly on you, than the people your attempting to make fun of..
Yes, I do find it fascinating; however, I have no idea if any of this was staged or if the guy was frightened and couldn't handle things any longer. Now, here is this interesting part… neither do you!
You may get more engagement if you take your ass off your shoulders. That said, you may not want more engagement, I don't know…
Thanks for making my point. There's only one "fact" there... the man blew himself up. There is ZERO proof that he wrote some kind of manifesto, or reached out to another person wanting access to a media type. That was alleged on a podcast, and then repeated a thousand times throughout conservative media.
You see how that works? It requires critical thinking to realize that those aren't in fact "facts".
The police have found notes on his phone (and talked to family members) that describe his motivations pretty clearly, and they don't have anything to do with antigravity drones or whatever. Otherwise the public doesn't know much of anything.
The fact that you guys need to "WOW!" these grifter podcasts and always fill in the blanks with conspiratorial nonsense is the "true disconnect" in our society.
Ok, I give the person a reasonable doubt that he's truthful about the messages, etc…. No reason, as of now, that suggests it's not true. If that changes, I'm sure you will come on here and let us know. Until then, the first two points would be admitted as evidence and will be up for scrutiny if the receivers character is impugned.
Smapty, slow down a bit and try not to be those vitriolic knuckleheads on the FB and BB forums…
Yes, the FBI said they have evidence that he possibly sent the email, but in the next breath said they haven't been able to prove it conclusively. Don't get me wrong, that's makes the idea WAY more likely than the conspiracy nonsense you guys usually nod along with, but to say "no one can dispute the above facts" is way overstating what we know for sure.
Regardless, the podcast should have lasted for one minute, with the guy just saying "out of respect for this guy's family and his years of service, we acknowledge that he was suffering from PTSD and likely a traumatic brain injury, so we should take the ramblings in this manifesto with a huge grain of salt. The end."
Instead he proceeded to dig into every loony and completely fact free conspiracy angle while the Water Cooler oooh'd and ahhhh'd. Like I said, zero critical thinking. And kind of disgusting, honestly.