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Comrades, it gives me great joy to announce that a few of my colleagues over in Building Three here on the campus of the State Science Institute have made an important breakthrough.

Belief in conspiracy theories makes people more likely to engage in low-level crime

This is the Missing Link that we've been looking for: scientific justification for sending political enemies hooligans to the Gulag for ThoughtCrime™.

A new day has dawned. Now, I'll finally be able to put away all of the Deniers that have been criticizing viciously slandering my important Global Warming research, which is Always Right because it presents the results that the Government paid me to produce.

So be careful whom you follow on Social[ist] Media. Big Brother is watching...

What about the comrades who believe in the Trump-Russia conspiracy? Are they also likely to engage in low-level crime, or are we talking high crimes and misdemeanors here?

Of course, if no one gets prosecuted, that means no crime was committed, therefore this wasn't a conspiracy theory. And if it wasn't a conspiracy theory, it had to be the truth.

Therefore, as long as no Democrat goes to jail for this fraud, Trump-Russia collusion will be real.

Red Square wrote:What about the comrades who believe in the Trump-Russia conspiracy? Are they also likely to engage in low-level crime, or are we talking high crimes and misdemeanors here?

Of course, if no one gets prosecuted, that means no crime was committed, therefore this wasn't a conspiracy theory. And if it wasn't a conspiracy theory, it had to be the truth.

Therefore, as long as no Democrat goes to jail for this fraud, Trump-Russia collusion will be real.

I hadn't thought about that, Comrade Red Square, but since thinking is forbidden around here anyway, that's probably a Good Thing.

I think feel that you're probably right about that. It is most certainly only the unapproved Conspiracy Theories that will get anyone in trouble.

Mikhail Lysenkomann wrote:

Red Square wrote:What about the comrades who believe in the Trump-Russia conspiracy? Are they also likely to engage in low-level crime, or are we talking high crimes and misdemeanors here?

Of course, if no one gets prosecuted, that means no crime was committed, therefore this wasn't a conspiracy theory. And if it wasn't a conspiracy theory, it had to be the truth.

Therefore, as long as no Democrat goes to jail for this fraud, Trump-Russia collusion will be real.

I hadn't thought about that, Comrade Red Square, but since thinking is forbidden around here anyway, that's probably a Good Thing.

I think feel that you're probably right about that. It is most certainly only the unapproved Conspiracy Theories that will get anyone in trouble.

You are both flirting with Thoughtcrime yourselves for even suggesting that the Trump/Russia collusion is a conspiracy theory. Every good prog knows that it's a legitimate fact.

Konservative_Punk wrote:

Mikhail Lysenkomann wrote:

Red Square wrote:What about the comrades who believe in the Trump-Russia conspiracy? Are they also likely to engage in low-level crime, or are we talking high crimes and misdemeanors here?

Of course, if no one gets prosecuted, that means no crime was committed, therefore this wasn't a conspiracy theory. And if it wasn't a conspiracy theory, it had to be the truth.

Therefore, as long as no Democrat goes to jail for this fraud, Trump-Russia collusion will be real.

I hadn't thought about that, Comrade Red Square, but since thinking is forbidden around here anyway, that's probably a Good Thing.

I think feel that you're probably right about that. It is most certainly only the unapproved Conspiracy Theories that will get anyone in trouble.

[highlight=#ffff00]You are both flirting with Thoughtcrime[/highlight] yourselves for even suggesting that the Trump/Russia collusion is a conspiracy theory. Every good prog knows that it's a legitimate fact.

I try to stay as far away from thinking as I can. It's just never worked for me and just plain makes me paranoid...so I gave thinking up for Lent...or something like that.

Lent? LENT? ALERT TO ALL PARTY MEMBERS! WE HAVE BEEN INFILTRATED BY A CATHOLO-FASCIST!

By even mentioning the concept of Lent, you are suggesting that I may have done something wrong for which I need to atone. You are trying to force your religious superstitions on me! I demand immediate reparations for this crude attempt to force your Catholic bigotry onto the Cube!

Ponder this...

Is it religious oppression if a rich person must give up his ill gotten gains to the state? Or if a white male must give up his wallet, watch, and Obama-phone to a deserving person of color who places a polite request while showing off their shiny new knife they found?

"From each according to his ability..." (didn't Bernie or AOC say something about that?).

Comrades, the new guy should give till it hurts, then we can move in and take the rest. This is how things work. Nothing to see here, move along...

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Thinking, itself, is a Thoughtcrime™

Pamalinsky wrote:Thinking, itself, is a Thoughtcrime™

You have that exaktly right, Comrade Pammy. I think I'll just keep my head down and concentrate on weeding these beets... 'coz I think I hear a certain Commissarka coming this way...

From the linked article:

Dr Dan Jolley, of Staffordshire University, said: 'People believing in conspiracy theories are more likely to be accepting of everyday crime, while exposure to theories increases a feeling of anomie, which in turn predicts increased future everyday crime intentions.'

From Wikipedia:

Anomie is a "condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals".[1] This evolves from conflict of belief systems and causes breakdown of social bonds between an individual and the community.

This explains a lot about the behavior of progs in their natural habitat, and their violence against "the other."

This also justifies calling the media is "the anomie of the people." Trump simply got the spelling wrong.

Comrades! The Democrat Party has a long and KKKolorful history of hatred and intolerance.
Today, they prefer the path of Democratic Socialism. In the old days, this was called the Suppression of Other Voices and Ideas with Extreme Terror (SOVIET). The modern Democratic Socialist is a tolerant and loving creature. As long as you don't disagree with "it".

Papa Kalashnikook wrote:In the old days, this was called the Suppression of Other Voices

Yes, I seem to remember them giving me Clorpromazine for that... right before my first lobotomy...

Ivan Betinov wrote:Lent? LENT? ALERT TO ALL PARTY MEMBERS! WE HAVE BEEN INFILTRATED BY A CATHOLO-FASCIST!

By even mentioning the concept of Lent, you are suggesting that I may have done something wrong for which I need to atone. You are trying to force your religious superstitions on me! [highlight=#ffff00]I demand immediate reparations for this crude attempt to force your Catholic bigotry onto the Cube![/highlight]

Ivan the Stakhanovets wrote:Ponder this...

Is it religious oppression if a rich person must give up his ill gotten gains to the state? Or if a white male must give up his wallet, watch, and Obama-phone to a deserving person of color who places a polite request while showing off their shiny new knife they found?

"From each according to his ability..." (didn't Bernie or AOC say something about that?).

[highlight=#ffff00]Comrades, the new guy should give till it hurts, then we can move in and take the rest. This is how things work.[/highlight] Nothing to see here, move along...

Jackalopelipsky is a hare-brained non-thinker...especially after Room 101 Therapy resulting in hare lip. Jackalopelipsky lives only in the Party Approved constant of Anomie. As StateChurch Saint, Rodney King preached: "Can't we all just get along?" Oh wait....did I do it again??

I don't 'know' if Big Brother exists...but my thoughts about Big Brother are always Korrect.

jackalopelipsky wrote:I don't 'know' if Big Brother exists...but my thoughts about Big Brother are always Korrect.

Why do we always refer to Big Brother, this is not korrect thinking! Why not:

• Big Sister
  
• Big Cisgender-Xemale
  
• Big Self-Identified-Cross-Racial-Humanoid
  
• Big Hormonaly-Challenged-Athlete
  
• Big Gender-Fluid-Butch-Bitch
  
• Big Heteronormative-Kracker-Tracker
  
• Big Toxically-Masculine-1980s-Frat-Guy
  
• Big Trans-Manson
  
• Big Triggered Hyphen Hyphen Hyphen Hyphen

GO BOLDLY PROGRESSIVE COMRADE!!!

Yo'sup Bro Tito wrote:

jackalopelipsky wrote:I don't 'know' if Big Brother exists...but my thoughts about Big Brother are always Korrect.

Why do we always refer to Big Brother, this is not korrect thinking! Why not:

• Big Sister
  
• Big Cisgender-Xemale
  
• Big Self-Identified-Cross-Racial-Humanoid
  
• Big Hormonaly-Challenged-Athlete
  
• Big Gender-Fluid-Butch-Bitch
  
• Big Heteronormative-Kracker-Tracker
  
• Big Toxically-Masculine-1980s-Frat-Guy
  
• Big Trans-Manson
  
• Big Triggered Hyphen Hyphen Hyphen Hyphen

GO BOLDLY PROGRESSIVE COMRADE!!!

Yo'sup Bro Tito,Jackalopelipsky has boldly moved into the Glorious World of Next Tuesday by embracing full bore Anomie Utopia right here in the present. Surely you do not mean to imply that ANY of the infinite understandings of our limited human concept of Big Brother as your list of permutations (and those permutations are expansive and inclusive) indicates - changes in any way the awe and TREMBLING FEAR we mere mortals are to hold in regards to the all-powerful, all-seeing, all-knowing entity: Big Brother. Now, THAT is definitely going to get your thinking korrected. Embrace full bore Anomie Utopia or The Revolution is going to roll over you like a Cyber-Dyne System Machine. It's all they do!

jackalopelipsky wrote:I don't 'know' if Big Brother exists...but my thoughts about Big Brother are always Korrect.

Big Brother is the Great Pumpkin all good socialists are waiting for. On Next Tuesday the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch and gives all the good little girls and boys everthing they want for free.

And then he holds them all hostage until they fork over all their money and let him have his way with them.