Why Are Americans So Ready To Believe Hoaxer B S?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/alex-jones-sandy-hook-parents-tell-infowars-founder-he-has-made-their-lives-a-living-hell-as-they-face-him-in-court-12664498
ok ok it's not just Americans but they lead the field in falling for this kind of thing. Can they not see they are just the mark in a con by people like Alex Jones?

[pastafreak]

I feel so sorry for those parents...that they and others are accused of lying, that a piece of poop like Jones can make their lives hell, that they cannot grieve properly.

[Gromit]

We have plenty of our own conspiracy theory numpties, I meet them everyday. The Americans don’t have a monopoly on it.
There are a lot of Americans and we share a slightly similar language, so we get to hear more of them than Russian or European nutters.

[tomus42]

Some people seem to have an inbuilt need to believe ridiculous BS, and if they're not already religious, then conspiracy theories are the religion for the Internet age which fulfills that need.

It's a combination of the satisfying feeling that you're in on some secret knowledge that the ordinary sheeple aren't, and a desire to believe that there's a hidden controlling power behind everything which gives it meaning, presumably because the thought that there isn't is too unpalatable.

Twas ever thus that the feeble minded could be manipulated by cynical charlatans for malicious purposes.

[tomus42]

BTW, see QAnon for one of the shatbit crazy and cultish examples.

The number of Americans that don't just dismiss it out of hand as laughable garbage, is quite frightening.

[ToraToraTora]

yes that sums it up well Tomus, BA.

[tomus42]

Thanks for BA. To be fair to the TFH there are other factors at play.

One is a genuine desire to oppose the forces of evil - can't fault them for that.

The other is a default position to disbelieve the official version of anything that comes from the authorities. Again, can't really blame them as we do get lied to an awful lot.

It doesn't make them any less feeble minded though.

[Peter Pedant]

o god and he sings so divinely
( havent read the article)

[Peter Pedant]

see QAnon for one of the shatbit crazy and cultish examples.

the fella in the Capitol with rose bush ties and shouting - where is Mike Pence I want to hang him! - has just got 7 y. He was armed

[jno]

every country has idiots. America has idiots with guns.

[tomus42]

I think there's a few Alex Jones fans over on the Donald thread.

Perhaps they can shed some more light on this.

[Spicerack]

He didn't make the parent's lives anything. They never watched his channel.
Lots of people believe lots of things, many of which I disagree with.
Never felt I had the right to silence them.

[tomus42]

That is such a lame effort Spice. Fair play for showing up and identifying yourself though.

[tomus42]

News just in. The idiot has been ordered to pay £40m in damages. Good.

Other lying dicchead broadcasters please take note.

[douglas9401]

In even better news it's $49.3 million. :-)

[Spicerack]

'Late you come yet still you come' as the late great Vetuste Ennemi would say.

[Spicerack]

The bloke PP is referencing, I believe, was more a talker than a doer. A blowhard. No prize, I'm sure.
But the most interesting aspect of the case, apart from the 7+yr sentence, is that it was his son that secretly recorded his tales of imaginary derring-do and 'dobbed' him in to the FBI.
Pretty *** up, eh?

[tomus42]

£40 million. Pmsl.

[Peter Pedant]

// Twas ever thus that the feeble minded could be manipulated by cynical charlatans for malicious purposes.//

excuse me! ( or oi mush, in AB speak) that is the cruellest thing I have ever read about the average ABer - how insulting!

editor I appeal to your sense of fair play!

[Peter Pedant]

ter daaah ! - oops forgot that

[Peter Pedant]

Beeb got six ( no not 16 or 60 or 600) deniers about July 2005 - but they didnt have their heart in it
The mysterious white car outside BMA was just about as much as they could muster

[ to explain: behind the sardine can bus there is a white car. It is very mysterious]