{"id":135194,"date":"2017-10-26T17:58:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T23:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135194"},"modified":"2017-10-27T07:43:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T13:43:53","slug":"nation-continues-sink-madness-vegas-conspiracy-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/26\/nation-continues-sink-madness-vegas-conspiracy-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"As the nation continues to sink into madness (Vegas Conspiracy Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because of course<\/i> the Las Vegas mass shooting was all a government hoax, and the people whom you’ve seen speaking about it were all “crisis actors” hired by the government to justify [insert paranoid lunatic conspiracy rants here], and therefore definitely<\/i> should receive death threats.<\/p>\n

(Facepalm)<\/p>\n

My only hope for our society is that this is simply the fractional percentage of lunatics who have always existed but who never before have had the social media reach that they can have today, and that this isn’t simply a spreading sign of something worse.<\/p>\n

Though it sure the hell isn’t helped by our Chief Executive spending his days ranting about “fake media” all the time.<\/p>\n


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\n‘I hope someone truly shoots you’: online conspiracy theorists harass Vegas victims | US news | The Guardian<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Because of course the Las Vegas mass shooting was all a government hoax, and the people whom you’ve seen speaking about it were all “crisis actors” hired by the government to justify [insert paranoid lunatic conspiracy rants here], and therefore definitely should receive death threats. 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