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comment by logic_machine

A leak was sprung proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that intelligence agents on the government payroll have been covertly infiltrating social media sites like Reddit for the purpose of controlling public discourse through propaganda and misinformation.

All links to this information are taken down, users are banned from reddit for posting it, vote manipulation on these articles through freezes and releases, and other slimey things occur.

Reddit comes to the conclusion that not only is the article one hundred percent true, but it's happening right before their very eyes.

Queue Shitstorm.

Any other explanation of the situation is an attempt to obfuscate the issue.

I mean " IT has gone to the point of their obsession with him for just being Jewish and exposing the subreddit's hate for Jews".

REALLY?? Try harder.



user-inactivated  ·  3930 days ago  ·  link  ·  

... I'm just gonna leave this here:

The fact that Alan Moore, Alan Moore, of all people, is saner than 90% of /r/conspiracy, really says something.

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Owl  ·  3930 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I often thought that as well, but at the same time I also think it's a bit funny considering how the reason all this shit is happening is because the article that was taken out pretty much proves a conspiracy theory that the government has been taking part in this shilling business all over internet communities.

And Snowden and the NSA is something that I often heard mentioned before by conspiracy theorists, that they are monitoring everything, only to have skeptics hand wave and dimissively say "No one is interested in your porn habits", when in fact, they were:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/nsa-porn-muslims_n_4346128.html

And it just continues to get worse as the leaks go on.

I still don't consider myself a conspiracy theorist, but I remember arguing with my parents who harbored a belief that perhaps the government wasn't all too innocent in 9/11. Nowadays I'm not too keen to argue as hotly as I once did before, even if I still believe the Government doesn't have anything to do with 9/11.

I'm not so hot to defend America in any general sense anymore as I was back in the days. The NSA massive surveillance thing kinda was the last straw for me personally.

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beezneez  ·  3929 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I still don't consider myself a conspiracy theorist, but I remember arguing with my parents who harbored a belief that perhaps the government wasn't all too innocent in 9/11. Nowadays I'm not too keen to argue as hotly as I once did before, even if I still believe the Government doesn't have anything to do with 9/11.

Those were all too critical questions to ask, my friend. I'm with you on this one, but imagine your parents confronted with your type of critical curiosity; they had no precise answers either.

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shitizen  ·  3930 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Haha, Alan Moore is also an experienced occultist. In my opinion, I think that gives him something that most people in that community are lacking. He understands the purpose of myth. I think one of the big problems with people in that community is that they get obsessed with their myths and never really learn or grow from them.

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Keibler  ·  3930 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I agree that there should be a controversy over the deletion of the articles, however people in /r/conspiracy are focusing on Bear and not on the article or hell even any of the other mods. I know for a fact he wasn't even the whole who deleted the post.

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logic_machine  ·  3930 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm sorry, but you're trying to play him off as some sort of Jewish martyr fighting against a horde of anti-Semitic Nazi's, when there are clearly better and more pressing reasons for the problems he's having.

That kind of destroys your credibility.

It seems that, for truth or for naught, he's been fingered as a social engineer working for or with propaganda agents. I have to say, the anecdotal evidence is pretty damning.

Your post reads like a defense attorney trying to defend a guy who's been caught red handed and playing the "persecuted member of minority group "x" card".

EDIT: Obviously Kiebler took my advice, and decided that the minority card wasn't playing well in this, because he edited the post above this one after the fact.

Credit to you for recognizing your mistake and correcting it.

However, the claim that Bear wasn't the one that deleted the post is utterly fallacious. Reddit is a set of scripts running on a web server, and those scripts wright logs.

The logs say Bear deleted the posts, Froze the next post because he couldn't delete it (couldn't figure out how to accuse it of breaking any rules) waited till it hit rock bottom for lack of upvotes till a third post was made and took off.

Then he unfroze the now dead article posting, and froze the new one.

This is all pretty damning evidence.

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Keibler  ·  3930 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You can think what you wish, I won't argue over the internet. I was just giving out my thoughts about the story.

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