Is it time to stop insulting the tin foil hat crowd?

[Warren Stupidity]

[MrModerate]

1. CAN'T HEAR YOU! CRINKLING SOUND TOO LOUD!!

(let's go into another room)

Now, what were you saying?

[Warren Stupidity]

3. use your tooth transmitter. eom.

[MrModerate]

12. Just got some dental work done and now . . .

All I can pick up are weather reports from Alpha Centauri

[billybob537]

2. Yes but it keeps out

the negative waves Moriarty. { signed ODDBALL}

[maxsolomon]

4. you can't insult a conspiracy theorist

MIHOP is only conspiracy i don't buy. i simply don't believe that this cabal posesses the competence.

yes, the CIA gave Bob Marley cancer.

[Paulie]

21. What about LIHOP?

:evilgrin: :hi: :tinfoilhat: :popcorn:

[Paulie]

22. What about LIHOP?

:evilgrin: :hi: :tinfoilhat: :popcorn:

[Warren Stupidity]

24. Pohil tuoba tahw?

Something is messing with our messages.

[maxsolomon]

34. Oh, LIHOP, sure

i buy that.

but the Mayberry Machiavellis couldn't plan that & then keep it secret.

[meganmonkey]

5. And remember:

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you!

:shrug:

[Swede]

6. I'm too paranoid to think of doing that.

Did you just hear that?

[LunaSea]

7. Yes, foil hats have been proved unreliable....

By some nice folks at MIT


http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/

[MrModerate]

13. Priceless!

Although the authors seem obsessed with the fact that the (presumably borrowed) network analyzer cost $250,000.

[savemefromdumbya]

17. yes

I didn't see your post before I posted mine! LOL!

[Warren Stupidity]

8. On a side note: gallows humor is a gift from the goddess.

We have to keep finding humor in the horror.

Happy Stroodle! (The Flying Spaghetti Monster Loves You).

[Tace]

9. One Of The Effects Of This Spying On Americans Is That Those Of...

us who were screaming about it since 9/11 were marginalized as nuts. Well, I'm glad to have been vindicated in my claims... but I've been seriously hassled, and I'm not going to ever get over this. These are the repressive measures of a totalitarian government. I'm seriously pissed-off.

[The Flaming Red Head]

29. What if your name was Jack

and you had every phone conversation begin with "Hi, Jack!"

[Warpy]

10. Of course not, tinfoil hats are tacky, tacky, tacky

Those of us who realize that paranoia has become fully justified fear prefer the aluminum colandar. Not only is it ventilated, an advantage in warmer parts of the country, the upturned "feet" are convenient for attaching seasonal decorations like tinsel, Easter Peeps, bunting, and Valentine hearts.

[w13rd0]

11. My Tin Foil includes...

LIHOP at the least, lMIHOP at the extreme (complicity & cooperation)
George Bush doesn't care about poor black people
The Bush administration knowingly lied and manipulated us into war
The media is being manipulated on a grand scale by the admin and corporate interests
Wellstone was murdered
The Bush administration is willfully committing illegal and unconstitutional acts upon us citizens, journalists and their political enemies
etc. etc.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

14. My solution..... wait for second graphic to load.......

[SmokingJacket]

15. The reason people become paranoid...

is that once in a while, they turn out to be right.

If you start getting the creepy feeling you're being watched -- and you find out you ARE! -- suddenly you begin to take that creepy feeling very seriously.

I think every conspiracy theory needs to considered on its own merits, not dismissed simply because it's "tinfoil."

[savemefromdumbya]

16. MIT said tinfoil is no good to stop the waves

things have been swept under the carpet, stonewalled for years by this administration. It is only now that it is getting slowly un-zippered. Just wait til we hear all about 9/11 and what really went on!

[Name removed]

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[toymachines]

23. ya man

that would suck man...:eyes:

[Cults4Bush]

31. Is it the Holiday break already? Go back to school or the whitehouse...

whichever one you came from.

You worship an evil god don't you Gannon?

[uncle ray]

32. hey, what a coincidence! i have tourettes too!

fucking freeper!

or, sorry, just that tourettes, can't control it y'know!

i can't wait to hear the series of expletives that will come out of you mouth after you troll around DU a bit and find out how DOMESTIC calls are being turned into INTERNATIONAL calls without either the sender or reciever knowing.

welcome and enjoy your stay! fucking freeper! sorry, tourettes again!



sorry, he looked hungry.

[MsKandice01]

19. I've been part of the MIHOP crowd for the past year..

But just remember, at one point, the thought that Bush lied us into war was considered tinfoil...as was the idea that he was spying on American citizens.

[Protagoras]

20. The problem is "CONSPIRACY" has now been extended

from where it used to mean "people convinced that aliens were secretly running over the government" to suddenly include anyone who simply realizes that powerful rich people will rig elections and lie on TV to keep power.

The "tin foil hate crowd" isn't made up of old coots talking about crop circles or inventing fake jewish texts...it's now a label applied to those who actually read the WSJ and WPO and go "OH SHIT" when they read that Bush lied about WMD.

I recently had a friend call me a conspiracy nut because I claimed WMD were not the reason why Bush invaded Iraq...I've had others give me funny looks when I tried (in relatively simple terms) to talk about Diebold.

Strangely...in each of these cases I was totally vindicated. But I don't get the feeling that their attitudes have changed. And I'm not over-eager in expressing myself. I usually just say, hey did you hear about this? You ought to read up on it.

[Slit Skirt]

25. than you finally

it's about time we stopped being marginalized!

[OxQQme]

27. They hate us for our freedoms

to see the world through different eyes.
Conservatives view = Static, mine
Liberals view = Moving, ours

[dogday]

26. People who dare to step outside the box

We are taught to stay in line with everyone else, even though they say it is ok to march to the beat of a different drummer, they don't mean it. Those who dare to think outside the box are the discovers of tomorrow's cancer cure and other revelations in life.

[Coastie for Truth]

28. Andy Grove (founder of Intel)

titled his autobiography "Only The Paranoid Survive"

[Opusnone]

30. On behalf of all Patriots, I humbly accept your apologies

I recently wondered why I didn't partake in all of my Father's hobbies, it's because research and knowledge of the world I live in are much more attractive options for me.

The term "tinfoil hat" is thrown around alot these days mostly out of ignorance, but apathy and embarrassment are probably just as much to blame.

Hungry. Me eat.

[porphyrian]

33. No. Not that they're wrong, just that it's fun to insult them. - n/t

[lonestarnot]

35. Now do you understand what this evil bastard is capable of?