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[–] [email protected] 95 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That moment when you come to terms with the fact that one of your parents is a fucking idiot.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

And the other fucked a fucking idiot.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Oh sure, all of the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, police, and whatever other secret entities in the government we don't know about couldn't figure it out.

But Joe Nobody somehow has the knowledge to find that one piece of evidence that pulls it all together. Some people really are nuts.

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong 46 points 9 months ago

For these people, this shadow government is both competent enough to achieve the most involved conspiracies, but at the same time, incompetent enough that Joe Nobody could just show up, look at the scene 60 years after the fact and figure it all out with their ambient temperature IQ (in Celsius).

There's plenty to criticize our governments for already.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I feel like nobody in this thread has been to the actual, official 6th floor museum in Dallas. They play up every "conspiracy" explanation you can imagine.

They have the exact spot in the book depository (the book depository is the museum) where Oswald was shooting, but they also have the alphabet agency sound dissection where the actual experts predict multiple shots occurred with a diarama of where the shots may have eminated from.

They have like the suit of the guy who shot Oswald and they really talk on printed images about how weird it all is.

When you go outside they have plaques on both the grassy knoll and the area directly behind it saying this is where possible other shooters were.

I think the plaque commemorating the death says allegedly.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

60 years later, nonetheless. Fucking delusional.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He's gonna crack that case open 60 years later as well.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

That one piece of evidence that has somehow survived 60 years, but also has been missed by the hundreds of experts and thousands of other "free thinkers" who scoured the area over the years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

And something that’s sturdy enough that 60 years of being in a street downtown won’t destroy

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[–] slackassassin 54 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

I don't know one way or another. But it feels like the dad could just be a funny person who said a funny thing. Like a joke, by a dad. A father joke, you could call it.

Everyone out here with the psychological profile of the guy based on one humorous tweet.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The kind of father I am going to be, lmao. Saying batshit so my children think that I am actually insane, while having the ability to provide to the family and keep a good life. I think this is one of the most fatherly skills. A dad can come up to a son and say things like "led lightbulbs are bad, they don't warm the room like the old ones" (my dad actually said that, while working with electrical engineering).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (16 children)

....I mean that's actually a thing, the electricity savings on your power bill are reflected in your heat bill. Canadian farmers use a single 100 watt incandescent bulb in a 4x4 shack to keep the water pump from freezing at minus 40. Never mind the idiocy of LED tail lamps in cold climates.

[–] slackassassin 5 points 9 months ago

I replaced an incandescent bulb in my basement with an led, and my pipes froze the next winter. Took me a minute to figure out why.

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[–] starman2112 9 points 9 months ago

Man, there really are people here thinking this guy is delusional and not funny

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

He properly said it as a joke, and she probably laughed at his joke knowing it was a joke. Then it dawned on her that this would make a great place to farm likes and laughs off of Twitter. Can we still refer to it as twitter if referringto it in the past?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Man, remember when your country's kooks were all "The CIA killed JFK" and "They're hiding aliens at Area 51", rather than being all "Ukraine belongs to Russia" and "The Nazis had some good ideas".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I see a lot of, "My conspiracy talking points closely align with American adversaries and are actually foreign propaganda used to destabilize me and my compatriots" these days.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yup, the unlimited resources of the federal government handled the original investigation...

But you alone, Cletus, have the ability to truly figure out what happened, as you munch on a bag of Cheetos.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Yeah he's going to find a bullet case in the FBI missed, that has been just lying around on the ground for decades, and a written confession that was left behind field in an airtight container to preserve it.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I actually highly recommend visiting the JKF Museum in Dallas (which is at the location he was shot). It was an interesting experience. It was cool to compare the pictures of the location with the present day. A lot of it is exactly the same except with thicker foliage.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They even have the spot on the street marked with an X so you can see it as you drive over.

[–] ikapoz 58 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Seriously I don’t know how the fbi missed that. Obviously the street painters were in on the hit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

OP, get this new info to your Dad!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

My favorite part is watching the people try to go have their picture standing on the X, not realizing that the second that light turns green, there are going to be 3 lanes of traffic barreling right towards them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

And the two guys on the grassy knoll selling their conspiracy pamphlet were pretty entertaining too, NGL.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It's funny to realize that JFK was, culturally, like the Boomer's 9/11. Except that 9/11 is also the Boomer's 9/11. Generationally speaking, they're very afraid of everything and never let go of grudges.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

9/11 was a terrible tragedy, but nowhere near as terrible as our government's response to it. After the attacks the country was more unified than at any point since WWII. Instead of using the attacks as a catalyst to continue bringing the country together, Bush used them as a wedge to drive us apart. Then the government continued using the event as an excuse to expand their power, violate the constitution, and snap up liberties.

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[–] PrincessLeiasCat 8 points 9 months ago

And you just described my mom perfectly lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So, they're the dwarfs of Warhammer Fantasy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That’s going in the book! You’ll rue the day you insulted the dawi you uzumgi!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because a few particular websites (cough YouTube cough) figured out how profitable peddling conspiracy theories could be.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is your dad ~~Dale Gribble~~ Rusty Shackleford?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

You know why it's called FBI, don't you?

"Fix It Again, Tony!"

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

The truth is that Lee Harvey got one hell of a lucky shot and for some people that's just unbelievable.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nah, he missed and the drunk secret service agent in the tail car fumbled on the return shot

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Even explained this way, it still sounds like Oswald got lucky in a "task failed successfully" kind of way. 🤣

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"Could the second gunman have been hiding up one of these trees?"

Dad, those trees were saplings at the time!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

As a non american I would totally do this though, just for the luls. Maybe it's a nono in the US because of the reaction in the comments here.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Suspicions about JFK's assassination are actually some of the more "acceptable" conspiracy theories to believe in, in the US. However, I think Lemino's recent video has shown the online community that there really isn't much, if any, room to argue that it wasn't Oswald.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Lemmino CIA psyop confirmed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Doing it for a joke is fine. Actually thinking you're going to find something that the FBI missed and the thousands of other conspiracy nuts missed is pretty stupid and/or arrogant though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah, so OP is Joseph Gribble, then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Pocket sand!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No one gonna mention that it happened about sixty years ago?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Their dad obviously thinks of himself as a Sherlock Holmes character who will see a random mark and immediately solve the case.

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