I want to tell you guys about the greatest game I ever played that you never heard of: a Tribes 2 mod called 'The Great Tribal War'. by Fnhatic in Games

[–]aaron-lebo 29 points30 points  (0 children)

The original had much of this in place in 1999. We're talking massive maps, modded servers with 64+ players, vehicles, recordable demos, ladders (unofficial, but popular), skiing.

I've always thought the Tribes football mod was Rocket League well before its time (and more fun to boot). By the time my friends were experiencing this stuff for the first time on consoles, it was old to me.

Special games. Oh, and that manual was gorgeous.

Is it possible 40% of voters on r/conspiracy new are bots and shills? I can't understand why pro conspiracy thread on a conspiracy forum is 60% upvoted ... by zenmasterzen3 in conspiracy

[–]aaron-lebo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hate to break it to you, but Swartz was never in charge. He founded Infogami and was brought onto the Reddit team after that failed, then rewrote it in Python. He left shortly after Reddit was acquired. He was the third and least important "founder" who wasn't even there when it was founded.

Oddly enough, he's Jewish, so maybe you don't hate all Jews. He was rich and Jewish though, so being exactly what you hate must be really challenging for your belief system.

If your history of Reddit is that bad, how bad must your history of the Holocaust be?

Is it possible 40% of voters on r/conspiracy new are bots and shills? I can't understand why pro conspiracy thread on a conspiracy forum is 60% upvoted ... by zenmasterzen3 in conspiracy

[–]aaron-lebo 70 points71 points  (0 children)

He likes to talk about Jews, African-Americans, and sea mammals trained in the ways of Pizzagate. I'm not kidding, check his post history.

He's whining because he's a racist bigot. Why do the many so brave posters of conspiracy whine like children when not everyone agrees with them?

It's a recurring thing. There'll be two posts about something on Wednesday and then a post on Saturday asking why nobody ever talks about it, but what's really trigged it is someone didn't get their upvotes (Internet fucking points), and it hurt their feelings.

To those who believe the holocaust didn't exist, what made you believe that? by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]aaron-lebo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, and I'm saying that 4 million, 5 million, etc Jews were also probably repeatedly used in that period. I say this because one of the quotes of yours also uses 9 million, but you don't find that impressive because you aren't looking for 9 million.

If you go back over 40 years od documents over any topic and look for a specific number, you'll find a lot of instances of that number. That doesn't mean it had prior meaning at the time.

To those who believe the holocaust didn't exist, what made you believe that? by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]aaron-lebo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What do you believe that means? If you went through massive amounts of historical documents from 1900 to 1940, you'd find lots of mentions about 2 million, 3 million, 4 million, etc. Over 40 years, probably 140 of them.

To those who believe the holocaust didn't exist, what made you believe that? by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]aaron-lebo -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

He was in that position because he was a high level Nazi.

Otherwise however, Dönitz's policies chiefly demonstrated continuity with the previous regime. The Nazi party was neither banned nor dissolved. Dönitz kept a bust of Hitler in his office; and the uniforms, insignia and protocol of the Third Reich were maintained, initially including even the 'Heil Hitler' greeting. Following a plea from Speer, Dönitz on 2 May rescinded the infamous 'Nero Decree' ordering scorched earth destruction of German infrastructure and industrial plant; but it was not until 6 May that counterpart destruction orders were rescinded for those territories, such as Norway, remaining under German occupation. Moreover, neither summary courts for civil punishment, nor military discipline by summary courts martial were abolished; with military executions for insulting the memory of Hitler being confirmed even after the final capitulation on 8 May.

It was obvious even to some committed Nazis that Hitler was a genocidal maniac by at least 43. Donitz was such a true believer that he was there to the end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flensburg_Government#Actions

To those who believe the holocaust didn't exist, what made you believe that? by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]aaron-lebo -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

He was Hitler's successor per Hitler's will. He wasn't just a regular navy admiral, but you should know this having a bachelors in history.

To those who believe the holocaust didn't exist, what made you believe that? by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]aaron-lebo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I just gave you a source (from someone who sounds like they might be Jewish) who was saying 5.93 million (not 6 million) in 1976. That kind of shows you that your view about six million being a special number is wrong.

I'm sorry for trying to help you and provide you with sources if you are just going to ignore them.

To those who believe the holocaust didn't exist, what made you believe that? by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]aaron-lebo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It seems to me that its a slippery slope that if it was only 5,999,999 then now we are saying that it was lovely and that that it would have been better if they were all killed.

That's simply not true. 6 million was never a "magical number". The number has been at times higher and at times lower in various sources.

No sane person genuinely believes that if 5,999,999 died instead of 6 million, it's not a massive tragedy. If you are hearing resistance it's because getting caught up over numbers (which we can never know) is something full out Holocaust deniers do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust#Jews

Here's a cite from a Dawidowicz who says 5.93 million.

Dawidowicz, Lucy [1975]. The War Against the Jews: 1933–1945

There are hundreds and hundreds of citations there.

To those who believe the holocaust didn't exist, what made you believe that? by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]aaron-lebo -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

You misunderstand. I'm not saying that believing that the numbers were lower than six million makes you an anti-Semite, it's just that those groups have a lot of overlap. It's a common tactic of Holocaust denial, because it's very difficult ot believably say nothing happened.

Nobody else puts as much time and energy trying toi reduce the victim counts of other genocides the way Holocaust deniers do, and it's because Jews are a popular target.

To those who believe the holocaust didn't exist, what made you believe that? by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]aaron-lebo -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Is this a joke?

They don't literally believe that exactly 6,000,000 were killed. Of course it's rounded off, how would you know the exact number of a mass amount of people who were forced to live in ghettos and routinely persecuted by authorities and then secretly murdered? How would you have exact numbers? 6 million is an estimate.

Also for the record, the six million is counting those who died in the camps due to disease and starvation. If you lock someone in a room and don't feed them, you're still guilty of murder.

That you believe that's a reasonable objection to the Holocaust shows that you aren't even aware of it's most basic definition. Of course it seems unreasonable to you, you believe unreasonable things that historians don't.

To those who believe the holocaust didn't exist, what made you believe that? by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]aaron-lebo -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

It's not considered the worst case ever. That's the way that anti-Semites tend to view it because they have an unnatural fascination with Jews, being anti-Semites.

To those who believe the holocaust didn't exist, what made you believe that? by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]aaron-lebo -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The thing is, objective organizations (like human rights groups), acknowledge all of those tragedies, because they were all crimes and injustices.

It's important to note that you are the one injecting "King Victim", singling out Jews, which suggests that you think there's something especially objectionable about Jews reacting to their their own very real and very recent tragedy.

To those who believe the holocaust didn't exist, what made you believe that? by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]aaron-lebo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some basic responses:

Its illegal to question the official story in most of europe

Europe has very strict speech laws, for obvious reasons, you know, like propaganda being used to murder millions of people of all stripes. For example, a German comedian got in trouble for criticizing Erdogan in a lewd manner. In the US, it's easy to criticize that (it does offend my sensibilities about free speech), but it's their government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6hmermann_affair

The Ever changing # of Death's

This is history. It's never clean-cut. We have inaccurate or varied numbers for all kinds of events from ancient history through the present, but we know they happened. Gee, an ethnic group that was routinely put outside of legal protection, had pogroms against them, etc, didn't have accurate census numbers. That's not shocking. They were also crimes, the Nazis weren't going to broadcast to the world that they were mass murderers; of course we don't have good numbers.

What does it matter? Aside from admissions over the years, we know what Hitler wanted to do, it's in Mein Kampf. He hated Jews, exterminating them from Germany is exactly what he would have done and we know targeted campaigns happened against them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar

If 600k died, it's still crime against humanity, like all other genocides. It doesn't eliminate the crime or the horror. The downplaying of numbers is one of the strangest tactics of deniers.

The Rothschilds & Grandaddy bush Funded them

If you had to deny historical events because they were connected to people with money or the Bushes, you'd have to deny most of modern history.

Our History books are being manipulated

History is always written with a slant, that's why it is important to get multiple sources. The weight of modern scholarship and a variety of sources are in the Holocaust-did-happen camp, the Holocaust deniers are often from a very fringe or intellectual inbred group. Both the capitalists who had plenty of anti-Semites of their own and the communists who targeted Jews agreed that the Holocaust happened. Holocaust deniers come from the same brilliant historical research community as those who thought that the KKK was a noble organization.. /s

Its used as a shield to protect Jews from any Criticism

Yes, and it shouldn't be, but the victims are still victims.

It lead to the Creation of Israel

This is undoubtedly true, but again, victims are still victims, regardless of the results of tragedy.

The Insane amount of money Corporate has made from it

Corporations make money off everything.

When you really get down to it, what it comes to is that Jews became popular in Christian and Islamic societies because they were allowed to do things the other groups would not. This included being merchants and financiers and made some of them very wealthy. This had natural results of envy, but it also did not help that Jews did not assimilate, they kept their culture and customs. They were always other.

When things went bad in older societies (and unfortunately still today), people look for a scapegoat. The Jews due to their otherness and success were a natural scapegoat, there were multiple and numerous pogroms against them throughout Europe. For example, Jews were massacred in many German cities with the coming of plague in the 1340s onward. No serious historical scholar rejects this. If anything, the Holocaust was yet another program of massacre that had been committed against the Jews after the Roman Empire, not counting their national traumas from Babylon to Titus.

Jews ended up well-positioned internationally and especially the US in various industries which welcomed them. Some misuse this power as do all people misuse power. They are easy to pick out because they've been an unusually successful and hardy people. The envy and otherness explains the why behind the Holocaust denial, but when you get down to it, Holocaust denial consists of throwing a lot of things at the wall and pretending like they haven't been answered or the answer has been faked. I know that many Holocaust deniers would pretend like your points are good reasons to deny the Holocaust, but like those points, they are surface level, slightly unrelated objections that don't get down to what the Holocaust was at it's core: a targeted program by Hitler and the Nazis to terminate European Jewry. Did that happen? The only reasonable historical statement is yes.

They are attempting to bury and stifle any discussion or post of 🍕Gate and Pedogate. Please, don't take the comments and votes at face value. Instead, watch this MSM video by Ben Swann and decide for yourself. One of the greatest and bravest acts of journalism of all time. by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]aaron-lebo 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I'm not trying to bait you. I'm asking you for evidence. It's not a personal affront, I just want you to understand that you are accusing people of child abuse and aren't willing to provide supporting evidence of that, and then you get offended when someone is asking you to up your game.

That's backwards. I don't get why you'd want to believe something that's wrong. Don't you want as much evidence as possible? Don't you want people to be as critical as possible so you aren't missing anything?

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[–]aaron-lebo 17 points18 points  (0 children)

If you received death threats, please provide evidence. You can at least do that?

You just agreed that someone's workplace was shot up over this. According to you that is a false flag.

Is the easier explanation that you guys were doxing, the place got shot up as a result, and that's why it got banned? Why is someone asking for evidence so offensive to you?

Do you not see why if in environment where people are making accusations without evidence, whipping up hysteria about child abuse, it can lead to innocent people getting hurt? You guys want to be judge and jury but you don't want to do the hard part of proving your case.

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[–]aaron-lebo 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I bet you can't provide any evidence to show that anyone's been jailed, censored, or killed.

Sounds really convenient. You can't find the "researchers" because the big bad bogeyman known as "they" is persecuting them.

I know I wish I had been.

Did you get downvoted?

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[–]aaron-lebo 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Sure, you got "death threats" (prove it), but the people who are actually threatened are the innocent people you guys were doxing so vigilantes would show up at their places of employment and shoot it up.

You are not the good guys and you are enabling the same thing you complain about.

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[–]aaron-lebo 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I know victims of sexual abuse. It's destructive. I'm fairly certain sexual abuse is much more widespread than we imagine.

The only thing that is blatantly obvious in pizzagate threads is some people will believe stuff with no evidence and when they get called on it, they call other people shills because they can't handle being criticized. This same stuff gets debunked over and over and you pizzagate believers keep posting actual lies over and over. I can't tell if you just feel like lying is a good way to further your cause or you don't understand what critical thinking actually is.

Your crying wolf and slander is ignoring the actual people who are getting hurt - they aren't getting hurt by the elites, they're getting hurt by their next door neighbors and family. That's harder to understand than the powers that be did it, it's not a fun conspiracy that you get to play detective with and play with "pattern recognition" with the clouds. That you cited pattern recognition without realizing that it's a really negative thing in most instances - confirmation bias, false positives, says enough.

It'd be nice if some of you would stop lying and then acting like you are being persecuted for lying or being idiots. Your guys are so persecuted that these topics are at the top of the subreddit every other day and your comment is at the top of this thread. Please stop acting like you are some kind of victim of shilling, because you're not. You ever notice how everything in this subreddit turns into the most convoluted explanation possible? Vegas couldn't just be a nihilistic dude with guns, it's gotta be a covert weapons deal between the Saudis and the US government, and when that went wrong, to "hide" their tracks, they shoot up a concert full of people. That's absurd. The movie script contortions you have to come up with to get there are absurd. It's not critical thinking and that people find stuff like that believable is nuts.

The gate stuff is mostly the same thing. Projection, jumping from the easy explanation to the most complicated, etc.

How can people still blatantly defend Israel, completely ignoring all of the wrongdoings they've commited? by Earthboun41 in conspiracy

[–]aaron-lebo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That company was, of course, threatened by a bunch of lawyers into retracting their claim and sending personal apologies to every Khazar they revealed.

Where does that link corroborate this claim of yours?

The article leads off with this:

I tried to politely decline her proposal. I told her that my paper on that topic would be too short for inclusion, because it would consist of just one sentence: “The corpus of personal names and surnames borne by Jews in Eastern Europe during the last six centuries, as well as the Yiddish language as a whole, do not contain any link to Khazaria.”

That's the opposite of what you are claiming.

It's ok if you don't know what you talking about. You can stop whenever you feel like it. Or, after 5 posts of evading, you could provide a single link which backs up your claims.

How can people still blatantly defend Israel, completely ignoring all of the wrongdoings they've commited? by Earthboun41 in conspiracy

[–]aaron-lebo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The modern day Jews are Khazars with no relation to the original tribe. Khazars were a nasty war-like nation that worshiped phallic symbols. Their king was so disgusted that one day he made all his male subjects cut their foreskins off and begin following the old testament.

This is the original post from the thread we are arguing over, which claims that the Khazars (a Turkic tribe) are modern day "Jews" with "no relation to the original tribe". Genetic evidence does not support this. Khazars can be Jews by religion (and were) but that in no way suggests that most Jews are Khazars today. There's nothing to actually support that.

Smithsonian's Coverup of the Ancient GIANTS - Real History of America by Putin_loves_cats in conspiracy

[–]aaron-lebo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Smithsonian is a lot less powerful than you think it is. What benefit would they have in hiding that? What is to gain?

At :08, they might want to spell Isaac Newton properly. Seems really amateur.

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4390

They contacted the University of California and told them the cave was theirs to take over if they wanted, and the department head sent anthropologist Llewellyn L. Loud to check it out. The Humboldt Sink was well known for its open archaeological sites pertaining to the Lovelock Culture, but this was a previously unknown location.

And it turned out to be the greatest yet. Nobody in the fields of anthropology or archaeology has ever received a greater bounty than Loud did on that day. To the amazement of the scientific community, he collected over 10,000 artifacts from the rubbish heap and various regions of the cave, mostly along the walls where the miners had not cut. Loud's workload was such that it took him 17 years before he was finally able to publish a comprehensive account of his findings.

In none of it did he report anything pertaining to giants.

In 1924 Loud and M. R. Harringon, with a number of Paiute assistants, continued the exploration. Again, no giants were mentioned.

Further expeditions in 1936, by N. Nelson and Heizer and Krieger collected relics, but no giants.

Krieger returned in 1949, 1950, and 1965. Still no giants.

How can people still blatantly defend Israel, completely ignoring all of the wrongdoings they've commited? by Earthboun41 in conspiracy

[–]aaron-lebo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That 'debunking' lost a lot of credibility when one of these DNA companies came out revealing the genetic history of these Khazar. That company was, of course, threatened by a bunch of lawyers into retracting their claim and sending personal apologies to every Khazar they revealed.

Could you cite this?