OT: "We're not treating this as a terrorist attack"

It also explains why there's such a huge delay in organising a press conference - they need to take the time to get their story straight. Can you imagine how differently this would have been handled if the assailant had been an "extreme right" MAGA guy?

Does he design electronics?

There's a distinction between "terrorists" and lunatics. Terrorists are organised - lunatics aren't.

There's nothing to stop a lunatic latching onto the symbols of a terrorist organisation, but effective organisations don't hire lunatics.

You are a lunatic, so this may not be obvious to you.

For years the conspiracy theorists were telling us that governments were using the threat of terrorism to take away our freedoms.

Now the conspiracy theory is that governments are hiding the existence of terrorism from us.

So which is it?

Sylvia.

No point in asking Cursitor Doom - he just looks for fatuous nonsense and posts it here whenever he finds it.

The guy that exploded the Cybertruck in Vegas was coordinated.

Both. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom-fighter and the 'bad guy' changes from year to year as circumstances demand. Most people's memories don't go back far enough to notice and 'The Press' - who should be exposing these inconsistencies - are pointedly ignoring them.

There is no single Ministey Of Conspiracy Theory. There's diversity in the lunatic fringe world.

Wrong. A terrorist is somebody who kills people to attract attention to his or her political cause. There are lunatics around who kill people for totally irrational reasons that have very little to do with any political cause. They may imagine that they are involved in some political cause or other, but the kind of lunacy that lets you kill people wrecks your capacity for any meaningful involvement with other people.

With whom? Coincidence isn't necessarily coordination.

Army Green Beret whose wife left him. Waiting to see how the usual suspects spin this into him _actually_ being a deep state Marxist intersectional transgender feminist, it's been a while since we've got some good psy ops cope from the right.

Obama's birth certificate springs to mind here. There are equal numbers of people calling it out as a fake as there are calling these same people conspiracy nuts and lunatics. To this day, there are *still* people who refuse to accept that this document is 100% a crude and obvious forgery. Do they seriously deluded enough to believe that its genuine or are they just intentionally lying? It just beggars belief that someone (Obama) in that position can commit a crime like that and not even be investigated - officially - over it. There's some serious corruption at work in America and AISI, it's the No.1 thing Trump needs to deal with this time, because he conspicuously failed first time around - despite all those campaign pledges to "drain the swamp."

Chaotic complex nonlinear systems have the property that their future gross states can't be predicted far into the future, because they are exquisitely sensitive to the cant-be-exactly-known current state.

But the chaos effect works in negative time too. T=0 is an arbitrary instant. So the causality of the present is suspect in a chaotic system too.

So most any conspiracy theory has a chance of being true.

If you are as bad at doing joined up logic as John Larkin is, this may look like a convincing argument.

It's a lunatic fringe.

To this day, there are *still* people who

Presumably they share Cursitor Doom's enthusiasm for obviously fatuous nonsense.

Does it matter?

It's easier to believe that a lying nutcase like Trump can latch onto the nonsense as part of deceptive rhetoric.

He gave up on it after he got elected and had to try and look "presidential".

Which was one more of his implausible lies.

I'm almost nostalgic for the days when birther-ism was the margin of the lunatic fringe, the lunatic fringe has way more nonsensical nonsense to focus on these days..

I'm almost nostalgic for the days when birther-ism was the margin of the lunatic fringe, the lunatic fringe has way more nonsensical nonsense to focus on these days..

Fox News et al. generates a whole variety of fatuous nonsense and they see what gets clicks and eyeballs and what doesn't, throw s*it at the wall and see what sticks.

Then they feed the most highly-rated nonsense to Trump/Musk/Vance et al who bring it up in their next speech or X post and the hoi polloi are like "Wow, they know what's on our minds. they really understand us!"

Yes, like cramming in as many terrorist mass-murderers as possible before Jan 20th.