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They’re from Portland, Oregon you can’t make this shit up lol.
The Chinese text in the title translates as “brainwashed.” Top kek.
Feel bad for the guy finding out his wife is a deranged conspiracy theorist
My friend was telling me about how the lady his best friend married was walking by the TV when some show was talking about the stars and she said "fake news!" My friend chuckled at first thinking it was some dumb joke but apparently after his best friend married her she became a flat-Earther who does not believe the stars are real, or at least they're not actually stars. I think about that a lot, and am terrified that anyone I associate with can suddenly become deranged in that way at any random point.
My friend's ex-wife went down the Youtube conspiracy rabbit hole and is now a Holocaust denier, thinks there are child slave colonies on Mars and stares into the sun because there's a conspiracy telling us not to do that and she's going to get to the bottom of it and unlock her super chakra. I think some people are just so thoroughly lacking in critical thinking skills that you can convince them of just about anything if you explain it in an authoritative manner.
I had friends try to come at me with con trails, fake moonlanding, bs. I just unloaded about all the real shit going on, why the fuck do you care about this bs, are you that cozy? Last week they mentioned they are basically communist.
honestly those old school conspiracies are almost endearing at this point compared to modern anti-vaccine, anti-woke and accusing everyone of pedophilia (except your own politicians) crap
moon landing one is fun to entertain as a bit.
Very true. It was that they seemed to think that this was proof the government was lying. Too which my reaction was, oh really? (pulls out real spookums)
next week theyre gonna be fascists or something. brain is pudding
To be fair the conspiracy conversation was years ago. But I did have you're initial reaction.
https://youtube.com/shorts/pAJrRalCSR0
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I dunno. I think life would be more fun if I thought I was one really good meditation session away from getting superpowers
She wanted him to pay $2500 for a Reiki healing class where you just hover your hands over people and channel good vibes into them.
My ex wife went from being a radlib, to working for conspiracy theorist Jason Bermis.
My ex-sister-in-law went from radlib to posting everyday about child trafficking from Wayfair
I have a family member who does the "vaxxed?" Thing unironically.
First reaction was that she didn't believe famous people are real, which is a much more fun thing to believe
They are just paid actors
Al Pacino just pretended to be the devil. For money.
And don't even get me started on Tim Curry.
if stars don't real, then what is Ben Affleck?
checkmate, atheists.
Disproving the anti-star conspiracy theory forcing your dumb friend to read every name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Everyone's a phony when you're dating Holden Caufield.
My ex-friend swallows Ukraine propaganda.
The starts aren't real but you aren't supposed to talk about it. They might hear you and get angry
Comes with the risk of marrying a white American, vast majority of them are politically deranged and disconnected from reality
In my experience it's not exactly political derangement, but rather the arrogance of thinking they have the freest media and know better than anyone else.
This is the truth. Americans used to say shit like "I get my news from fox and CNN so therefore I am objective."
Plato was a time Traveller and his allegory of the cave was him trying to explain Americans ti ancient Greeks
At this point I'd genuinely believe that is the truth.
Plato: "Lights come out of a box and make shapes and the people stare at it."
Other Greeks: "like fire making shadows?"
Plato, exhausted, going home: "yeah, sure, whatever helps you get it."
Plato: "So anyway, the people who stare at these boxes are stupid assholes but you can never convince them that they're wrong."
Other Greeks: Frantic note taking
I was an anti China lib in like 2020. Material conditions can come at you fast.
Western libs in general.