As a 'normal person' what do you think of Current Affairs/IMHO

It's the internet.

People go online and pick up all sorts of batshit crazy nonsense about other people that they have never, ever, once come into contact with in the real world. They then go onto the web and repeat the batshit crazy nonsense about other people that have never, ever, once come into contact with in the real world and the cycle repeats ad nauseam.

As for conspiracy theory, it used to just be a bit of gas that was mainly the realm of a few odd balls. Gibberish like fake moon landings or secret Arctic nazi bases were all just pretty harmless. The problem is nowadays, conspiracy theory has been weaponised by a certain cohort of politics and is used to rile vulnerable and stupid people up leading to idiotic utterances about Democrats using pizzerias as child abuse dungeons or the scenes we saw on Jan 6th in the US. This is where conspiracy theory has become truly dangerous and has gone beyond being a bit of gas that some might want to indulge in to pass an hour.

There is a clear journey of how this has evolved since the 9/11 inside job "theories" that were passed around 20 years ago. But at least they had some genuine debate surrounding them. These days, all some twat has to say is that the election was stolen and they'll have a ton of nodding idiots lining up to agree...and all without a single bit of elaboration, never mind actual evidence to support the, so called, "theory".

What are opinions opposite to trump and alex jones exactly, people who believe the election wasnt stolen or people who dont think the parkland shooting was fake? Why would these views be banned when there is a shed load of evidence to support those two positions. CA does allow alot of conspiracy theories to be mentioned without bans but im not sure it adds to the quality of discussions.

I don’t like to assume, H. Especially after getting it wrong with thinking it was McMurphy and the “Big 10” you were referring to.

Now, a chara, why don’t you “enlighten” the congregation, hmmm?

I’m not sure that you know, yourself, at this stage, bub. I’m, certainly, lost.

It's because posters try to goad others into saying something overt that can get you sanctioned by Mods

Directly accusing emmetspiceland of sockpuppeting is a no-no, but doing lots of thinly veiled stuff somehow gets away with it. Same goes for hand-wringers accusing people in a thread of all being racists, but when probed will never actually name a poster or post. It's all very tiresome.

Then you get a page or two of back and forth that goes something like:

repeat until Mods intervene

You don't say!

No doubt it's meant to grate along with the "quotes", tragic really.

I think it’s wankíng into Bosco.

I think it is talking to yourself and answering back in different voices.

I dont really understand those photo things. Never have.

Not sure if that makes me a normal person or not!

Have you got any links to back that up?

I agree but refusing to engage just because the links are from 'MSM' isn't going to help the debate.

Similarly, I understand the desire to dismiss sources that are known to be BS but you could at least dismantle the piece and explain why its inaccurate.

Its just brutal.

Its an echo chamber.

Its overwhelmingly male, aggressive, extremely hostile to dissenting voices.

It reflects badly on boards that its been allowed gain such momentum.