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zappaman

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Mon May 6, 2013, 03:36 PM May 2013

The Conspiracy Theorist Glossary [View all]

If you’ve ever scoffed when someone told you that JFK’s second gunman destroyed the World Trade Center with assistance from reptilian extraterrestrials as part of a plan hatched at Bohemian Grove to corner the gold market before the return of Planet X, you’ve probably found yourself subject to a bevy of indicting catch phrases machine gunned at you so fast your head spun.

To help decode the buzzwords that form the conspiracy theorist lexicon, the Skeptic Project developed a handy glossary. Here are some highlights:

Awake: the opposite of “asleep.” Essentially, the condition of believing in conspiracy theories and not believing (supposedly) any government or “mainstream media” source. CT’ers employ numerous variations on the “asleep”/”awake” concept, such as “I woke up,” “You’re asleep,” “Why did you go back to sleep?”, “When I was asleep I believed…”, “We’re trying to wake people up!”, “A lot of people are waking up,” etc., etc.

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http://disinfo.com/2013/05/the-conspiracy-theorist-glossary/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+disinfo%2FoMPh+%28Disinformation%29#sthash.cJJyvSRY.dpbs

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The article covers some of frogmarch May 2013 #1
"Why are you defending Bush?" n/t zappaman May 2013 #2
ha! And frogmarch May 2013 #3
The only good point in the article... ocpagu May 2013 #4
There are two different things here. ZombieHorde May 2013 #5
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