EPTTruthers make me sick.
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The gun control argument stops now. I know it's fun to argue about it in the heat of the tragedy when you can get all worked up about it but it's pretty disrespectful and if you don't care enough about the issue to make a separate topic for gun control then you don't care enough to shit on the tragedy by exploiting it. A gun control topic can be found here http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=313472 Also stop posting links to his facebook. TL will be no part of an unconfirmed witch hunt. | ||
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Bosu
United States3247 Posts
Truthers make me sick. | ||
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Aerisky
United States12128 Posts
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farvacola
United States18818 Posts
There are dozens of websites, blog posts and YouTube videos extolling the Emilie Parker hoax theory. If you Google her name, the very first result is a post mocking her father for crying at a press conference after the shooting. One popular video, which already has 134,000 views, was made by the producers of a popular 9/11 Truther film. “Just as the movie ‘Operation Terror’ shows the 9/11 attacks were a made-for-TV event, so too were the mass shootings … There can be no doubt that Sandy Hook was a staged event,” the narrator intones. He goes on to say that the adults who participated in the media coverage of the shootings “should be prosecuted as accessories after the fact in a mass murder” — i.e., the parents whose children were murdered in the massacre should be thrown in prison. The crux of the theory is a photograph of Parker’s sister sitting on President Obama’s lap when he visited with the victims’ families. The girl is wearing the same dress Emilie wore in a pre-shooting photograph of the family shared with media, so she must be Emilie, alive and well. “BAM! I cannot believe how idiot these people are [sic]… That’s her,” one YouTuber exclaims as he watches the two images superimposed on each other. (Apparently missed by these crack investigators is the possibility that the sister wore Emilie’s dress and that they look alike because they are sisters, after all.) The supporting details to the hoax theory explanation are reminiscent of the arcana of any well-developed conspiracy theory. What about the car? What about the rifle? Why does someone off camera allegedly tell Parker’s father to “read the Card” (as in a cue card) before he goes on CNN? Why is he laughing? Who is the guy running into the woods? Why is there police audio referring to multiple shooters? Why does one boy who survived the shooting tell Dr. Oz it was like “a drill”? Why was the principal quoted by a local paper after she died? Why do some of the parents look like some of the victims of the Aurora shooting — are they “all actors”? All of these questions have simple explanations, but in each case, the theorists have sided more with less likely, but more nefarious possibilities. Meet the Sandy Hook Truthers | ||
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Parsistamon
United States390 Posts
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TheFrankOne
United States667 Posts
On January 18 2013 14:32 LosingID8 wrote: the video is indeed quite interesting. i'm not one to believe in conspiracy theories but some of that footage is pretty unbelievable. So is all the conspiracy stuff. Until you google "debunk". | ||
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CaptainCharisma
New Zealand808 Posts
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Aerisky
United States12128 Posts
A white knight is defined as a male that treats woman as goddesses and does nothing but shower then in compliments on how wonderful and beautiful and special they are. Maybe be used as a noun or a verb. A person (usually a male) who sees the typical maiden in distress, and believes that he can help her. A male version of the "mother figure" that some girls become. A gaming term used to describe a male gamer who, in a desperate attempt to get himself laid, will attempt to woo or impress any female gamer he comes across online by being overly defensive of her and giving her special attention, such as playing as a healing class and only healing her. Pretty sure white knighting is, by definition, used with regard to coming to the aid of a girl. Not sure as to what white knighting is going on here. Maybe, if you really really really want to stretch it, it involves coming to the aid of/defending an ideology, but not sure as to what large ideology is being defended here by evidence posted in order to debunk the hoax hypothesis. | ||
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farvacola
United States18818 Posts
On January 18 2013 15:17 CaptainCharisma wrote: Watch out the white knights have come. Dude, you have your awful memes mixed up, which, rather ironically, is exactly the sort of thing one should expect from a conspiracy theorist whose information comes from unmediated internet material. | ||
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CaptainCharisma
New Zealand808 Posts
On January 18 2013 15:44 farvacola wrote: Dude, you have your awful memes mixed up, which, rather ironically, is exactly the sort of thing one should expect from a conspiracy theorist whose information comes from unmediated internet material. 1) I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I think Sandy Hook was highly likely to have happened, but that guy's manner before he starts talking about his dead child was weird. That is interesting from any perspective. 2) You don't appear to understand what irony is. 3) FYI to you and other guy: white knight noun 1. a hero who comes to the rescue. 2. a beleaguered champion who fights heroically for a cause, as in politics. 3. Informal. a company that comes to the rescue of another, as to prevent a takeover. | ||
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Aerisky
United States12128 Posts
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CaptainCharisma
New Zealand808 Posts
On January 18 2013 16:04 Aerisky wrote: After a hard day of self-righteousness and sanctimonious power struggles against the beleaguering masses, your mellifluous diction and charismatic disposition render the miserably thankless tribulations of a true champion all worth it. Our heartfelt gratitude to you, noble islander citizen. Nice dodge. User was banned for this post. | ||
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dudeman001
United States2412 Posts
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semantics
10040 Posts
On January 18 2013 14:32 LosingID8 wrote: So is any video edited to make a point rather then to convey context and facts, it doesn't all need to be jump cuts if you line things up right and out of context putting your own narrative over it suddenly A becomes B.the video is indeed quite interesting. i'm not one to believe in conspiracy theories but some of that footage is pretty unbelievable. | ||
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MountainDewJunkie
United States10340 Posts
On January 18 2013 15:17 CaptainCharisma wrote: Watch out the white knights have come. Poor taste on your part | ||
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Leporello
United States2845 Posts
On January 18 2013 15:53 CaptainCharisma wrote: 1) I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I think Sandy Hook was highly likely to have happened, but that guy's manner before he starts talking about his dead child was weird. An impossibly ignorant, arrogant, stupid, cruel, moronic judgment, at least impossible without some stupid ulterior motive which you've backed away from. DIAF. | ||
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CaptainCharisma
New Zealand808 Posts
On January 18 2013 17:45 Leporello wrote: An impossibly ignorant, arrogant, stupid, cruel, moronic judgment, at least impossible without some stupid ulterior motive which you've backed away from. DIAF. So I take it you think Sandy Hook was fake? Because if you read what I said I clearly state I think Sandy Hook happened and am not a conspiracy theorist. Or maybe you're talking about me calling him weird for smiling and laughing before giving a speech about his child who died the day before. Perfectly normal, I guess. | ||
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MooseyFate
United States237 Posts
If you send out a bunch of false facts, whether on purpose or just because of terrible journalism ( a very serious issue in the US right now), and then hide/classify a lot of relevant information that could clear up the misconceptions of the public, it's easy to see why there are so many people asking "WTF?". The claim that the debunking video makes about people wanting to believe their government is the devil over some random crazy going on a random rampage is pretty ignorant. I think it's a lot more comforting to know that crazy people exist and may sometimes do crazy shit around you than to think "oh yea, our government will kill people, even its own citizens, and lie to push their agenda". Sure the crazies would jump on the bandwagon regardless of the facts, but a lot of non-conspiracy types are asking "why?" and the cops/media aren't doing a very good job of answering without seeming shady as hell. Here's hoping that once the gag-order and near blackout of information is lifted, some light will be shed and we can all go back to worrying about something else. | ||
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fight_or_flight
United States3988 Posts
I apologize for prematurely posting some information here recently. It has come to my attention that there are some fundamental flaws in some of what's being spread around the internet currently. You can PM me if you think otherwise. | ||
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Shiragaku
Hong Kong4308 Posts
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Tewks44
United States2032 Posts
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