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GIFBuzz Aldrin punching a conspiracy theorist in the face like a boss[gif] (i.imgur.com)

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[–]Juus 7 points8 points ago

I'm curious, does anyone know what the legal repercussions was for Buzz?

[–]savageotter 6 points7 points ago

The guy tried to sue. last I checked it didn't hold up in court. something like he was harassing buzz.

[–]j994 0 points1 point ago

He admitted that he was harassing him and if you see the video he was just plain being in the way and annoying. He ended up apologizing to Buzz.

[–]macarattack 12 points13 points ago

I've always wanted to punch a conspiracy theorist.

[–]bunabhucan 8 points9 points ago

My mom is an equal opportunity conspiracist. GMO. Global Warming. Hollow earth. Reptiles. Don't vaccinate the grandkids. The last one made my blood boil but I don't think I wanted to punch her.

[–]homeless_in_london 0 points1 point ago

My mum is the same. She even flies out to America all the time to attend stupid conspiracy conventions which is basically the real life version of /r/circlejerk.

She told me one guy was single handedly proving all of the 'mainstream' scientists wrong. I looked him up and he didn't have a degree, or an award for physics like he said he did. He once won something to do with software at one of those crazy conventions. Told my mum this and she said it was all a conspiracy to keep him quiet.

You prove them wrong and then THAT becomes a conspiracy to cover up the supposed 'leak' of the other conspiracy. Fuck man.

Some serious brick wall shit going on here.

[–]bunabhucan 0 points1 point ago

My god. I am from Ireland but live in the USA. She comes out to the USA to see this guy call David Wilcock who believes global warming is, in fact, solar system warming (plus 2012 plus aliens made our (i.e. human) DNA and different races were made by different aliens.)

I think it is so far out there that no Skeptic bothers to touch it - it's just batshit.

[–]homeless_in_london 0 points1 point ago

Oh. Shit. Son.

My mum goes to America to see the exact same guy. He's a fucking nutjob. The only plus side is she met the Ancient Aliens guy.

Yeah, it's not in the realm of traditional conspiracies which tend to have some kind of a foundation or reason for being, but this shit is just bought up by bored housewives with nothing else to do.

[–]bunabhucan 0 points1 point ago

I think she saw David Wilcock in London and Denver. Next we'll find out that bunabhucan and homeless_in_london are twin brothers, Illuminati-created using alien DNA.

She also belongs to extraterrestrials.ning.com which covers UFOs and channeling - aliens (usually called Ashtar) contacting humanity through a human (actually a disputatious group of rival new age hippies each claiming to be the only authoratitive (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtar_(extraterrestrial_being)#Developments_after_the_mid-1990s ) person channeling Ashtar.) If she wasn't so obsessed with being on the fringe, she would just join a UFO religion.

[–]MrDeodorant 0 points1 point ago

I think if you go to the moon, and some idiot shows up and says you're a liar and that you faked the whole thing, you're allowed to punch them. An impartial moral authority would call it justified. A triumvirate of Superman, Captain Picard and Dumbledore would acquit him. "Don't vaccinate the grandkids" is certainly stupid, but it's a mortal, mundane sort of stupid, not the stupidity that living legends have to endure.

[–]serosis 6 points7 points ago

Me too. Fuckers think they know everything yet ignore all evidence defying their logic.

The kicker here is that if you ever get one to change their mind that usually means they were not really a conspiracy theorist. Notoriously stubborn, like talking to a brick wall through a mile of steel buried under the polar ice caps on Mars using two cans on a string.

[–]SelcouthBadger 4 points5 points ago

Sounds deep Ba dum tiss

[–]serosis 2 points3 points ago

Very.

[–]rastapasta808 5 points6 points ago

Skudoosh!

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[–]BrawlStrogg88 -3 points-2 points ago

So? Just because you've done something many other people haven't doesn't exempt you from the law. (Unless you're Judge Dredd)

While I agree it's badass, it's never acceptable.

[–]Bandura_Psych 1 point2 points ago

He's still got it!

[–]the_friendly_one 1 point2 points ago

Aldrin PUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-- (FWOOP)

[–]the_friendly_one 0 points1 point ago

(FWOOP) --UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCHHH!!!!

Goddammit. These portals suck. I'm getting a refund.

[–]iznou 0 points1 point ago

How do you explain The Shining smartasses?

[–]datgai 0 points1 point ago

You know, if people kept telling me that one of the largest achievements of my life was fake, I would probably get the urge to punch them too.

[–]moldytoaster -5 points-4 points ago

Buzz is a role model to children and is setting a bad example. Next time use words not violence.

[–]cpenny20 5 points6 points ago

But sometimes punching someone in the face is more appropriate than words. Like when they accuse you of not actually doing the thing that your entire life is defined by.

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