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[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I wish.

In case people don't want to get spoiled:

spoilerThe essay theorizes that the people flocked to qanon

[-] norbert@kbin.social 9 points 5 months ago

I feel like like the QAnon stuff swept up huge swaths of otherwise unconnected conspiracy theorists. Flat earth, chemtrails, aliens, all the "classic" conspiracies just kind of got co-opted and folded into the big crazy tent of insane people.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

yup. that's exactly what the second half of the video is about

[-] norbert@kbin.social 5 points 5 months ago

It's kind of a bummer. Aliens and Bilderbergers and Government Mind Control used to be fun little thought experiments to smoke a J and play what-if with your friends; but you can't even bring that stuff up anymore without someone thinking you're serious and bringing up adrenochrome or (((Globalists)))

This timeline sucks, I want to go back to when everyone knew the X-Files was a TV show and fascists kept their brainrot on AM radio.

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