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Old 06-28-2014, 07:03 PM
 
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Great example of confirmation bias. Alex Jones tells this person what they want to hear so extol it far and wide. It doesn't matter any of the other crazy cap Alex Jones states, doesn't matter he doesn't have a shred of evidence besides a bunch of verbal diarrhea, doesn't matter that every other prediction in the past has never had any evidence.

It doesn't even matter what anyone has said because willful ignorance just keeps the faith alive in Jones.

It's people believing what they want to believe instead of what is true.
Some of the things he says is incorrect, but some of things he has stated is cold hard fact. I think we should only look at the facts, and just ignore who is saying them. I am not talking about anything in particular either.
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Old 06-30-2014, 09:58 PM
 
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The stack market is rigged because too many of us subscribe to the buoy and fold strategy, while others rear-balance. Instead we should use fundamentalist analysis to select stacks, noting things like Retard on Idiotic Corporate (ROIC). The whole mess started when Nixon took us off of the Geld Standard; ever since, stacks couldn't legitimately rise, or be expected to remain upright without artificial intervention.
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Old 07-01-2014, 10:53 AM
 
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Some of the things he says is incorrect, but some of things he has stated is cold hard fact. I think we should only look at the facts, and just ignore who is saying them. I am not talking about anything in particular either.
Texas sharpshooter fallacy. Count the hits and not the misses.

The fact is he shouts tons of BS with maybe a few gems of truth...which can only be found by checking everything from other sources. You don't know what is true, and he doesn't care, at the outset. I don't ignore who is saying it when the person who is has a reputation of severe mental illness and compulsive lying.

Frankly, it's a waste of time. Why would I listen to him when I can listen to people who care about truth and accuracy that I would need to check his blather against anyways? Just to find (if it was physically represented) small gems of truth in literally cubic tons of crap and insanity. Just cut out the crap and find the gems.

The crap just induces fear and makes for poor decision making when people aren't as rigorous. The Miller's are a great example. They had literally problems themselves getting along with others and society itself. Instead of working on self improvement they listened to Jones spout how the world is out to get everyone...producing anger and fear to the point where they went out to get payback/revolution against the persecutors.

Jones talks a good bit about anger, fear (to the point other conspiracy theorists deride him) and revolutions...and given their instability it was like applying high heat to a pressure cooker while pointing the finger at imaginary demons. I don't deride him for finding a living on the backs of paranoid lunatics, even though I think he is an ******* for doing so, but he is pushing already unstable people to harm others. It also prevents them from getting help because these medications that would help are now "evil government mind control." It's sick.
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Old 07-03-2014, 05:53 PM
 
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Texas sharpshooter fallacy. Count the hits and not the misses.

The fact is he shouts tons of BS with maybe a few gems of truth...which can only be found by checking everything from other sources. You don't know what is true, and he doesn't care, at the outset. I don't ignore who is saying it when the person who is has a reputation of severe mental illness and compulsive lying.

Frankly, it's a waste of time. Why would I listen to him when I can listen to people who care about truth and accuracy that I would need to check his blather against anyways? Just to find (if it was physically represented) small gems of truth in literally cubic tons of crap and insanity. Just cut out the crap and find the gems.
I get what you are saying, but who isnt like Alex Jones? Who does not have a hidden agenda, and really does care about the truth and accuracy? Just because the presenter has a calm demeanor, and only speaks in a politically correct tone, and isnt blunt, does not mean they are not all about ratings. Above all else, Alex Jones is an entertainer isnt he, and arent they all to some extent?
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Old 07-03-2014, 06:17 PM
 
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Stack market is fraud and manipulated. However when sold the gains are real right? Hmmmmm considering the run up and the length of the Bull Market gotta be more than one sucker being born a minute. Glad I didn't buy into the reality of the fraud four years ago I might have missed out on stuff.
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