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Conspiracy Theorist Guide to Argumentation

Well done Travis - a suggestion for a follow on project - a spectrum of CT belief - perhaps on a scale of 1 to 10. With 10 being totally bat crazy to 1 being a mild CT thought - I'm sure the fine folks here would help you rate where the various CTs fit on the 'scale of crazy'.

That would allow a seasoned skeptic to, say 'well, that sounds like a 8.7 on the crazy scale to me'
 
How about making the opposite of this but with completely mangled logic:

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Hans said:
Well done Travis - a suggestion for a follow on project - a spectrum of CT belief - perhaps on a scale of 1 to 10. With 10 being totally bat crazy to 1 being a mild CT thought - I'm sure the fine folks here would help you rate where the various CTs fit on the 'scale of crazy'.

That would allow a seasoned skeptic to, say 'well, that sounds like a 8.7 on the crazy scale to me'
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That sounds interesting. Even within conspiracy theories there are different levels. For example thinking that the planes were holograms is crazier than thinking they were remote controlled.
 
Scott Sommers said:
No, but Youtube does give coverage to events and stories that the corporate-controlled mainstream media refuses. There are only a handful of alternative news sources willing to cover certain things because they are just too threatening.
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Except that YouTube is owned by a multi billion dollar corporation and frequently goes along with the other major media sources (copyright laws and such).

If anything, its just a gathering place to make these "threatening" videos easier to find and track.
 
Hans said:
Well done Travis - a suggestion for a follow on project - a spectrum of CT belief - perhaps on a scale of 1 to 10. With 10 being totally bat crazy to 1 being a mild CT thought - I'm sure the fine folks here would help you rate where the various CTs fit on the 'scale of crazy'.

That would allow a seasoned skeptic to, say 'well, that sounds like a 8.7 on the crazy scale to me'
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Well there's always that.
 
Travis said:
Even the most steeled of conspiracy believers needs a pointer here and there in order to do battle with the unbelievers. So here a few to put you in the ranks of the truly gifted.
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A few to add:

Ignore and Repeat
No matter how often and how good your "arguments" are countered, just ignore all explanations and repeat your original claim. Repeat this until everyone is bored with your insane idiocy, then declare victory

Experts change
Any expert that contradicts your nonsense is part of the establishment
Any expert that agrees with you is a true expert
If an expert doesn't claim what you thought he claims or his claims are not relevant just go back to "ignore and repeat"
Even it an expert says something that absolutely destroys your claims, you can always misquote, take stuff out of context etc
If all the above does not work, just invent your expert

Verbal Diarrhoea and ********bingo
Hide the fact that you have no clue about what you are talking behind giant walls of text, there is a good chance not everybody will waste his time reading it all
Use words that sound scientific and important (i.e. quantum and frequency), even if you have no clue what they really mean and how they relate to your claim
If people ask you about it, go back to "ignore and repeat"

Accuse, whine and babble about opinions
It's perfectly fine for you to accuse people of mass murder or at least being in league with the mass murderers. However everyone who suggests you might be wrong about something is insulting you, whine around how unfair you are treated. With some luck this will distract the lurkers from the actual content
Also no matter how wrong your statements are, just insist that they are your opinions and protected by the constitution.

Gish gallop
Whenever you get the feeling that one of your claims has been shot down, abandon it and switch to the next one. You can always go back to it a few weeks later and act as if it was something completely new. Your intended audience is too lazy to read more than the last three posts in a thread anyway.

Declare Victory
Repeatedly state that you have proven your claims, if possible create some sockpuppets, at least have some imaginery friends who agree with you. Use "we" instead of "I" to give the impression you aren't a lone nutjob

Mainstream Media is your friend and foe
Everything that exposes your delusions is the work of the evil Establishment, everything you like is great Journalism.
 
Excellent rambaldi.

And punctuation. Why is it that conspiracy theorists think that proper punctuation is optional?
 
Use words that sound scientific and important (i.e. quantum and frequency), even if you have no clue what they really mean and how they relate to your claim
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Most of the time, CT nuts might as well be talking about reversing the polarity of the flux capacitors for all the sense they make.
 
rambaldi said:
Mainstream Media is your friend and foe
Everything that exposes your delusions is the work of the evil Establishment, everything you like is great Journalism.
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One thing I would add to this is "Russia Today and FARS (Iranian State Media) is always true and has the highest standards of journalistic integrity while all news agencies in the Western World are lying to you."
 
A normal person can be leveled up to neutral evil to chaotic evil like AD&D

You remember that new guy that always gets away with making magical spells that were not in the book, or that the gay person that you heard of makes your mind twirl judging your beliefs every time you come by him? Why not create a list of if they point you out wrong you can grant them experience points for leveling up and have titles to know that they succeed in being a " mindless idiot to someone who has dark secrets and is using a mind reading device to enslave people". Here is a level list only on youtube if you make a video about them, you are notified as a moron.

0
normal person

1-3
moron

5
almost shill

10

shill

20
shill/ almost member of NWO

30
member of NWO


Anything above level 30 is you are one of the top of illuminati, reptoids, evil jews etc. Also you can not revert back to 0
 
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Make muttering remarks about tribunals and various Days of the Rope when mentioning Them.
 
New Item (the Major_Tom rule): Invent new acronyms instead of using industry standard jargon. Refuse to acknowledge that this particular phenomena has been studied for over 50 years and insist that it is original research on your part.
 
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