Poll of the Day > Do you think the government is using this natural disaster to gain more power?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Do you really think things will go back to normal after this or will this be the catalyst for the government to go down the path to 1984?

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sure(sarcastic)

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governments generally use every situation to try to expand their reach and control

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ur mom LOL

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5G

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Except the government really isn't doing much of anything and what they are doing is tanking the economy, which isn't helping them exert any more control.

Clearly.

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What power? They weren't even fast to enact that war powers act and have barely used that. If they were actually doing shit, then it might be a concern. There isn't even enough here to be on par with a FEMA death camp conspiracy theory.

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yes

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Mead posted...

governments generally use every situation to try to expand their reach and control

This.
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put the bong down lmfao

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A manufactured virus is a 'natural disaster'?

But to the main question, yes.... I think the government is going to fall back on this disaster to control us.

China makes the virus, and it spreads across the world. We quarantine, which slows the economy to a slow enough pace that we might be looking at a recession or depression, just like the "great one" back in the day.

Until Trump or his successor starts propagandizing through social media who is at fault for everyone's woes....China.

...then we go to war.

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RCtheWSBC posted...

5G

Those people are such idiots.
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I think it's just a facade... the government is in panic because people are slowly figuring out that they don't need them.

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Joker_X_II posted...

A manufactured virus is a 'natural disaster'?

But to the main question, yes.... I think the government is going to fall back on this disaster to control us.

China makes the virus, and it spreads across the world. We quarantine, which slows the economy to a slow enough pace that we might be looking at a recession or depression, just like the "great one" back in the day.

Until Trump or his successor starts propagandizing through social media who is at fault for everyone's woes....China.

...then we go to war.

People still believe this?
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It all depends on what the corporations want, TC.

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Joker_X_II posted...

A manufactured virus is a 'natural disaster'?

But to the main question, yes.... I think the government is going to fall back on this disaster to control us.

China makes the virus, and it spreads across the world. We quarantine, which slows the economy to a slow enough pace that we might be looking at a recession or depression, just like the "great one" back in the day.

Until Trump or his successor starts propagandizing through social media who is at fault for everyone's woes....China.

...then we go to war.

Its pretty much been shown not to be man made

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Zeus posted...

What power? They weren't even fast to enact that war powers act and have barely used that. If they were actually doing shit, then it might be a concern. There isn't even enough here to be on par with a FEMA death camp conspiracy theory.

Zeus, please stop throwing down facts to roadblock people's opinions. You're taking all the fun out of the fantasy.

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RCtheWSBC posted...

5G

???

Firewerx posted...

Zeus, please stop throwing down facts to roadblock people's opinions. You're taking all the fun out of the fantasy.

Zeus is actually being honest?

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I don't think it's as dramatic as you're implying, but they are definitely using this situation to shift more control away from individuals.

Trump will probably try to.
Can see ours doing so too since our prime minister was recently in hospital with covid 19, can easily imagine the conservatives and the press spinning it.

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I had an old friend I haven't seen since high school posting conspiracy theory bullshit on Facebook. I asked him how exactly the government asking people to stay home and for businesses to close helps the government gain power, and he unfriended me without responding.

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faramir77 posted...

I had an old friend I haven't seen since high school posting conspiracy theory bullshit on Facebook. I asked him how exactly the government asking people to stay home and for businesses to close helps the government gain power, and he unfriended me without responding.

There you go applying logic.

Zeus posted...

What power? They weren't even fast to enact that war powers act and have barely used that. If they were actually doing shit, then it might be a concern. There isn't even enough here to be on par with a FEMA death camp conspiracy theory.

If you want to boil a frog you don't throw it in boiling water, you put it in warm water and slowly bring the heat up

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Yes.

rjsilverthorn posted...

Except the government really isn't doing much of anything and what they are doing is tanking the economy, which isn't helping them exert any more control.

Creating a whole planet full of people reliant on them? Businesses arent going to be booming after all of this is done. People wont have money, they wont be spending, so businesses wont be hiring in order for people to make money so that they can spend that money. So on and so forth.

This is Economy Reset 101.

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Revelation34 posted...

Those people are such idiots.

People have no reason to report non-pre-existing health issues starting after the installation of nearby 5G towers, especially if 5G really is such a great and necessary thing.

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Muscles posted...

If you want to boil a frog you don't throw it in boiling water, you put it in warm water and slowly bring the heat up

Why would you boil a frog when deep fried food is tastier?

zebatov posted...

People have no reason to report non-pre-existing health issues starting after the installation of nearby 5G towers, especially if 5G really is such a great and necessary thing.

Good thing that doesn't actually happen then.
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Muscles posted...

If you want to boil a frog you don't throw it in boiling water, you put it in warm water and slowly bring the heat up

Another example of topsy-turvy logic in which the very absence of evidence that something is happening becomes sufficient "proof" that it is, indeed, happening.

What exactly would it take to convince you that there isn't a government conspiracy? Isn't the honest answer to that, "nothing"?

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Revelation34 posted...

Good thing that doesn't actually happen then.

Citations?

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Yes and no.

No in the sense that "this natural disaster" is entirely man made. First from the growing likelihood that it originated from insufficient containment precautions in a research facility. Second from news outlets inciting panic with irresponsible reporting.

Yes in the sense that major governments are already using the situation to enact "emergency" policies with no provisions for rescinding them once the emergency has passed.

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i just want some fucking paper towels

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Muscles posted...

If you want to boil a frog you don't throw it in boiling water, you put it in warm water and slowly bring the heat up

That only works if you lobotomize the frog first. People always forget that step.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog#Experiments_and_analysis

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DevilSummoner1 posted...

put the bong down lmfao

don't waste any time trying to change him, he thinks taxes are theft
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Firewerx posted...

Another example of topsy-turvy logic in which the very absence of evidence that something is happening becomes sufficient "proof" that it is, indeed, happening.

What exactly would it take to convince you that there isn't a government conspiracy? Isn't the honest answer to that, "nothing"?

If they step back on everything within a few months, but look at toll roads, they were just supposed to be used during the war but they didn't get rid of them like they were supposed to

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https://youtu.be/v9jVYE_f3I4?t=161

Pretty interesting take about this subject

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papercup posted...

Its pretty much been shown not to be man made

How do you "show" it's not man made? Nobody knows how it originated for sure, so why couldn't it have been made in a farm with a eugenics program to direct viral evolution? I'm sure there's ways to "organically" modify a virus.
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Im feeling more strongly every day that the biggest problem in society are people who are brazenly stupid, yet have been convinced that they are instead the only ones who are smart

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https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1249842466880135169

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zebatov posted...

Citations?

Common sense. Conspiracy theories are not truthful.
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Revelation34 posted...

Common sense. Conspiracy theories are not truthful.

Except some of them are, which is why there are conspiracy theorists, granted most are just tin foil hat idiots spouting nonsense, but conspiracies do exist and have throughout history

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• MK-Ultra experiments were real.

• CIA paid the Dalai Lama 1.7 million dollars per year during the 1960s to help create uprising within the Chinese infrastructure.

• Edward Snowden....self-explanatory.

• Tobacco companies knew smoking caused lung cancer since the 1950s.

• Gulf of Tonkin incident that started the Vietnam War.

• Johnny Depp did NOT beat his ex-wife, Amber Heard; it was the opposite.

• Anthony Bourdian killed himself because he was distraught over his wife Asia Argento (celeb figure-head of the #MeToo movement) for grooming a 14 year old boy she worked with on a movie 5 years earlier. And it was Harvey Wienstien, who was just charged with sexual assault, that told Bourdian as a sort of revenge.

• Cornovirus COVID-19 was a manufactured virus, created by the Chinese government.

Revelation34 posted...

Conspiracy theories are not truthful.

...granted some theories aren't 100% on the button. But you don't have to be a stubborn close-minded dullard to deny the possibility that some theories can turn out to be true. The problem with Conspiracy theories is that 'context matters', and that you can't reveal whether it's truthful or not, until years after the events.

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Well Trump basically declared himself king last night, so, yes.

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papercup posted...

Well Trump basically declared himself king last night, so, yes.

Mr president who told you that you have complete authority?

You are bad and your Network is bad. You have bad ratings and I hate you.

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papercup posted...

Well Trump basically declared himself king last night, so, yes.

He's been doing that since he took office though, he didn't need a disaster for that. I'm less inclined to think that is him grabbing for more power and more just that he has no idea how the presidency actually works.

Mead posted...

governments generally use every situation to try to expand their reach and control

agreed

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Joker_X_II posted...

long post

+Epstein didn't kill himself

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papercup posted...

Well Trump basically declared himself king last night, so, yes.

Your governor is the one revoking your constitutional rights. Trump's the one that wants to end that.

Duke_Lion posted...

Your governor is the one revoking your constitutional rights. Trump's the one that wants to end that.

lol I think you mean Trump wants to sacrifice me to the almighty dollar.

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Wanded posted...

+Epstein didn't kill himself

Probably he didn't.....

It's very plausible he was silenced to protect other powerful people.

Then again, if women stood up and accused Epstein, why couldn't they do it again to those associated with Epstein too? Epstein was a pimp to the rich and powerful, being rich and powerful himself, and he still got busted. That's why the "Epstein didn't kill himself" will always be a conspiracy theory.

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