Conspiracy Theories, Skepticism, and Critical Thinking

  The working people of the world are vastly outclassed in conflicts by the powers that be. In US history we can look at the Coal Wars, when the US military was used to protect the interests of coal companies by literally bombing the striking miners with planes. The US diverted military resources fighting World War I to attack its own citizens. Open conflict is inadvisable in these cases. The solution to fighting for the rights of the common person is the general strike. As Webster describes it, this is a tool of the anarchist—well, one of the tools. She claims that Mermeix defines three types of general strike: “ 1) the corporative general strike of the workers, 2) the Parliamentary general strike of the Socialists, and 3) the Revolutionary General strike of the Syndicalist leaders. ” She’s going to define each of them and I assume why they are all the tool of the Illuminati/Jews. For the corporative strike, she seems to be in support, writing that it was the only method that ...

 Conspiracy theorists have a strange relationship with “drugs” as a concept. On the one hand people like Bill Cooper seem to want a very limited government, a very hands-off police, and very few laws that are about the most basic of crimes. If it isn’t hurting anybody then there shouldn’t be any issue with it. On the other hand, they really hate the drugs. There are two reasons for them to hate the drugs: the first is simple racism. Drug crimes typically focus on the poor. The history of the United States’ drug laws is not only classicist but it also overtly racist. Drug laws targeting crack were far more strict than the ones targeting cocaine. The other reason that drugs are a focal point is that they offer proof of the grand conspiracy. Drugs provide an example of a problem that everyone sees, that makes lots of money, but no one seems “willing” to fix. In the conspiracy theorist’s mind, fixing the drug problem is as simple as sending in the military to destroy the cartels like i...

 The Anti-vaccination movement is coming back. It's going to come back strong and there is very little that can be done about this anymore.  It is going to seem reasonable to a much wider audience than before. This new movement is going to combine the pseudoscientific beliefs of the twelve year old movement with the libertarian-sovereign citizen motive that has always been around; and again, there's very little that can be done about it.  The previous movement combined a few things: a cultic milieu that came into being alongside universal high speed internet. This phenomenon did not create the distrust of experts but it hastened its growth to people that otherwise would not have this tendency. It was spearheaded by an actress with no qualifications but who seemed real earnest in what she was talking about. She spoke for a well-qualified medical doctor who published a study in a very well respected medical journal that seemed to argue that the MMR vaccine was not as safe a...

"Are you even going to give out your calendars? Seems kind of depressing. Maybe it should just be the first meeting of our secret society."--FBI Lawyer Lisa Page. This text revealed earlier this week sent a lot of people into a titter because it apparently confirms the existence of a secret society within the FBI that is apparently in opposition to the president. Senate Republican Ron Johnson of Wisconsin claimed that he had corroborating information and that the revelation didn't surprise him. This single text along with the revelation that the FBI "lost" about 50,000 texts between Page and FBI agent Peter Strozk (though they are beginning to be recovered) "confirmed" the story that supporters of the president and the president himself has been pushing for what seems to be forever--though it's only been a year. First off let's address the secret society comment in the text. I read the text has sarcastic and missing an eye roll emoji, but o...