William Niedernut and Low Follies at Education Forum-JFKA

[John Corbett]

MTG--

Verily, I was banned for eight months too. By now, readers of JFK Assassination Forum know my writing stye, and my views. So why was I banned at EF-JFKA? Likely for daring to speak sideways on some of Niedernut's insane views.

Simkin appears a bit into his senescence, and recently wrote he spends 10 hours a day writing history tomes. I hate to day it, but no one is ever going to read Simkin's history tomes. Simkin is in his 80s, and likely should be beekeeping or keeping a cottage somewhere pleasant in Great Britain (if there are any pleasant places left).

One problem with the JFKA CT community is that it includes a huge subset of people who believe every CT, or who are diehard leftists to the max, which today means Islamist-leftists.

The culmination of this konfetti of kooks: Mossad perped the JFKA!

Even Jeff Morley dog-whistled that tune for Tucker Carlson.

Well, I sense the JFKA ship is inevitably passing into the night, with fewer and fewer people genuinely interested in the topic. Like the Lincoln assassination---a few buffs, and that is it.

The generation that was alive when the JFKA happened will soon pass on.

The millennials and the Gen-Zers have as much reason to be interested in the JFKA as I had for the McKinley assassination. The only difference is to the best of my knowledge, nobody made a movie about the McKinley assassination so younger generations might have seen Oliver Stone's movie. The bad news is that most of what they think they know about the JFKA came from Oliver Stone's movie. We even have people on this forum who seem to have been duped by that movie too, such as the people who to this day claim the SBT was an impossibility. I thought Seinfeld's Magic Loogie spoof was more credible than Kevin Costner's ridiculous courtroom demonstration. It convinced me there had to be a second spitter.

[Benjamin Cole]

JC-

Yes, for better or worse, the JFKA research community is now largely a group of balding and greying buffs, if they are still above ground. That includes me (still topside).

I concur with you, that most of the lay public gleans what they know of the JFKA from popular media or one article or book they read.

Platforms like "X" or Instagram and Youtube, even TikTok, are influential.

Worse, serious offshore money is being poured into those platforms.

[Lance Payette]

Eek, NiederNut is back, it still says moderator under his name, and he seems to be as NiederNuttian as ever! False alarm, I guess.

(Slightly funny story: When I was with Xerox, one of my clients was a little Pakastani guy who was SO CLUELESS that around the office I coined an adjective like NiederNuttian out of his name to mean "absolutely clueless." I checked last year: He owns three high-tech companies, has thousands of employees, and is in numerous business and tech Halls of Fame - while I babysit six cats and waste my time on JFKA forums. Hmmm ....)

[Benjamin Cole]

LP-

I guess WN is still moderating. Hard to tell.

The EF-JFKA has devolved into a Gong Show.

Simkin and Niedernut seem to have debilitating verbal diarrhea, and cannot fix, or even address, what ails that forum.

Many EF-JFKA devotees, maybe even dozens, care.

[Lance Payette]

LP-

I guess WN is still moderating. Hard to tell.

The EF-JFKA has devolved into a Gong Show.

Simkin and Niedernut seem to have debilitating verbal diarrhea, and cannot fix, or even address, what ails that forum.

Many EF-JFKA devotees, maybe even dozens, care.

Let's not be casting aspersions on the Gong Show - now THAT was entertainment! Well, sort of ...

[John Corbett]

JC-

Yes, for better or worse, the JFKA research community is now largely a group of balding and greying buffs, if they are still above ground. That includes me (still topside).

I concur with you, that most of the lay public gleans what they know of the JFKA from popular media or one article or book they read.

Platforms like "X" or Instagram and Youtube, even TikTok, are influential.

Worse, serious offshore money is being poured into those platforms.

On rare occasions I peruse YouTube, mostly for classic rock from the 1960s and 1970s. Rarely anything regarding JFKA. I've never participated in discourse on any of the other platforms you mention so I have no opinion regarding money being poured into these platforms. I would be amazed if people are pouring money in to JFKA discussions since there would be little if any return on investment.

[John Corbett]

I think many years ago I was denied membership into a discussion group for the reason that they were not accepting new members at the time. To the best of my memory, that was the Ed Forum. If I am correct about that, it sounds like they did me a favor.

Google groups has been shut down killing discussions on both alt.assassination.jfk and alt.conspiracy.jfk although last I checked you could still read from their archives. I wonder how many JFKA online forums that are still around. I have an X account although I think I could count on the fingers of one hand how many posts I have made on that platform. I am not even sure how that platform works. Do you have to enter a hashtag to get to the JFKA discussion?
I don't even have an Instagram or TikTok account. I reside in the social media stone age. When I see people who have their noses buried in their smart phones completely oblivious to the world around them, I have concluded that is a good thing. I waste enough of my dwindling amount of time on this one.