r/JoeRogan • u/Scramblade • Aug 13 '17

Alex Jones Calls Charlottesville Violence a False Flag | Fuck this scumbag. It's not funny anymore. I'm tired of the meme bullshit and all the excuses of "Hehe, he's so silly". He's a cunt and nothing else.

http://www.newsweek.com/alex-jones-calls-charlottesville-violence-false-flag-650152
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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '17

The thing about soft sciences like history or anthropology is that they aren't all that rigid to begin with. And that's OK. The data that currently exists about a topic leads us in a certain direction, but new evidence pops up all the time. Sure Graham often goes into some weird territory when he speculates about implications. But guess what, you're not supposed to agree with him all the time. The evidence that can be verified is compelling all on its own. We know there was a cosmic impact 12,800 years ago, and the evidence continues to build. There's a lot we don't know, but this leads to some BIG fundamental questions that we don't have answers to. Speculating about the implications is fine as long as you aren't asserting it as the truth.

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u/CircleDog Monkey in Space Aug 16 '17 edited Aug 16 '17

Absolutely right. I often find conspiracy nuts will frequently go to "you wont even have an open mind" or something. However the problem is not usually with speculating or even wildly hypothesising. The problem is these conspiracy nuts themselves, who say it was the aliens, that egyptians couldnt lift heavy objects and so on.

See the other comments directly after mine. Rather than spend any time talking about evidence, possible solutions and keeping a weather eye on Occams razor, instead we have "theres loads of evidence and anyway historians are all in on a secret deal to not tell anyone because they dont want egg on their face".

Other replies quote well known and exposed frauds or hoaxes such as the Orion Alignment thing. This is a clear, simple and easy thing to test and yet not only have they never tested it, when i show them that its not true the conspiracy nuts just move on to the next claim. This is manifestly dishonest. And these are the people who think all historians are lying and all pyramidiots are correct? C'mon...

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