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Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl
I was going to go through each part individually, but I'll over the whole thing as a whole. First, I don't trust the MSM holistically, nor do I trust the FBI holistically either, but what alternatives to this are there? Reddit and 4Chan have put the most manpower into this and they came up with, " This guy looks scary" and the guy that "looked scary" WENT TO THE POLICE STATION TO CLEAR HIS NAME. The fact he responded on Facebook means he's streets head of even the average American in terms of accountability. But even Reddit put more effort into it than the Infowars types who say some scary guys that looked vaguely militaristic and concluded it's all a false flag operation, or maybe a cover up by the government and Saudi Arabia or whatever makes white middle class gun nuts feel safe at night.
I don't trust the FBI completely but this chronic cynicalism that manifests itself as permanent skepticism boarding on conspiratardism is just as debilitating as complete belief in the USA.
I agree with this post.
However it has nothing to do with my post, to which it is a reply, and it has nothing to do with your initial post where you ridiculed someone, suggesting he believes in aliens because he expressed his suspicion that the mainstream media have an agenda.
During the two days I have spent here in "Politics" I have noticed a trend to lump everyone, who is just a bit skeptic of main-line thinking, into the same bucket and mark them as David-Icke-Esque "Believes in Humano-Reptoids enslaving earth". I expressed my view that I think a collective stance like that is dangerous and that healthy skepticism does not equal conspiro-nutterism.
If you want to add fuel to the hardcore conspiro-nutters (not that this is exceptionally hard to do) then this behavior is one of the best ways to do it. As when everybody lumps every skeptic person into one bucket of hardcore conspiro-nutterism, then this is the group think which
THEY wanted to achieve with their propaganda.
Maintaining an open mind, even for unpopular, and yes, even fringe concepts, is a good thing.
Blindly believing in all of those concepts. Now
that is conspiro-nutterism.