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Yes, we do have a bit of a situation.
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Not directly relevant, but: I think M. Night Shyamalan's movie Signs would have been better if it had turned out that wearing aluminum foil caps really did hide your thoughts from those aliens. I mean, it wouldn't have been any stupider than aliens invading a planet full of a substance that killed them (water) and not being able to figure out how doorknobs work.
My favourite foil cap trope reference is Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series. It has several characters with supernatural abilities that can affect other people's emotions, and aluminum happens to block all kinds of magic powers in Sanderson's larger book universe. So a lot of rich and important people wear hats that are lined with aluminum foil on the inside to protect them from emotional influence.
We all got our limitations, man.
Invading a place that wants to kill you is not that unheard of. Some of us explore flanks of erupting volcanoes, abysses, or want to go to space/the Moon/Mars.
Going there naked, and with absolutely no idea what you're exposing yourself to, is bonkers though. Especially absurd for the crew of a spaceship with interstellar capability. How the hell did they reach Earth without killing themselves a thousand times on their travel?
This feels like how it was reading Harry Potter as a kid vs as an adult.
I recall an episode of Behind the Bastards where they explained how the "flat Earth" conspiracy theory was literally the core of a Nazi splinter group that was never stamped out
...flat earth nazis... they invented practical ballistic rocketry for fucks.. I just... like... goddamn....
There was always 2 halves* to the party. There's the skilled and educated people that often (but not always) signed up to party membership for preferential treatment, and then there's the pseudoscience nutjobs that were brought on to vote and push the 'aryanism' ideology
*Not really, but my comment won't make sense otherwise.
It's amazing how many conspiracies are just white supremacy with a different hat.
No no he's onto something, jewelers invented trees to sell more tree-themed jewelry
Trees are fake. They're actually solar panels planted by the Chinese.
Why does he do that?
It's when he remembers that Jews exist.
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Trees are obviously made up by Canadians to disguise where maple syrup Really comes from.
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Rain was invented by umbrella companies to sell more umbrellas.
Then there's David Ike who while crazy legit thinks there are like lizard people, there is no deeper meaning where it breaks down to "It's da Jews". He is crazy but has standards.
Guess he thinks V was a documentary.
For the longest time I thought lizard people meant lizard people. Not an allegory or something.
It still kinda makes sense to me. We're aware that the planet is getting uninhabitable for humans, and we know what's causing it. The people on charge go "actually no We're gonna go even harder. Nobodies even getting a day off you fucks."
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I knew OJ was behind it all.
My experience with those struggling with their grasp on reality has been, more often than not, that they blame various three letter agencies of the US government, not "the Jews".
Of course, conspiracy theorist aren't usually struggling with mental illness, but rather an overblown sense of self-worth and the inevitable result of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Insert a George Carlin quote about how stupid the average person is
A lot of things that were laughed at as being "conspiracy theories" surrounding three letter agencies later turned out to be true.
True.
What I was thinking of was more along the lines of "There's a midget working for the FBI hiding in my attic and stealing my clothes while I sleep" - an actual statement from a woman who was hypoxic (and didn't have an attic)
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Conspiracists have been stranded to figure out their own chosen "other" to fear and hate since Israel stepped into the scene and the Republicans (and most dems) made any criticism of their genocide "anti semitism" in a playbook move straight out of internet trolling tactics.
So you can turn your back on "God's blessed war against the Muslim beasts" OR you can suddenly start softening towards the idea that Jewish Cabals are running our whole country.
It's been kind of spectacular to see the right splinter around the edges over this even before the Epstein stuff.
Too bad none of it will actually make a real dent in a political ideology that is already built on cognitive dissonance.
What gets me is the guy. I grew up where you only saw this stupid crap coming out of the mouths of a guy like this walking around the seven eleven or the weekly world news and no ordinary person paid them no mind.
at least art bell never took himself seriously
Issue is, that the "trees are fake" people want to cut all trees.
Can you blame them? You are honest to god worker at one-person company hired by coroporation to cut down trees en masse and then you cut one of them and it goest bzzt and suddenly someone is speaking of illegal tree cutting and damaging state infrastructure...bollocks, I tell ya, trees are meant to be cut, if they didn't want their fancy-schmancy antennas cut they should't look like them trees!
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