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.
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.
We all got our limitations, man.
Most conspiracy theories get very close to the truth before the take a turn straight into schizophrenia village.
where is this village located, it sounds like it would have the best software developers
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.
Pretty sure he does mean the Jews though. A race of shapeshifters controlling the world? Likes to big up The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Although I did like the bit where he claimed to be the son of God, which lead to a gang of 100 youths outside his house shouting “We want the Messiah!”
He has gotten pissed at anti-semites who try to JQ him. While the conspiracy definitely is a dog whistle with Ike it is just that he is crazy.
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.”
Oh yeah the whole lizard people thing has like three layers, Neo-Nazi dog whistle, David Ike style I think there are legit lizard people, politicians are lizard people social commentary, and Mark Zuckerberg is a lizard person because he is a weird looking motherfucker.
With how the western world/media is treating gaza, it doesn’t seem that far off that zionists have some aspect influence
Jews are not same as Zionists tbf.
Zionist is used as a term to make antisemitism more palatable, than saying Jew. ZOG Zionist Occupied Government is a pure antisemitic term for example.
Actually not wrong.
Zionism is a nationalist movement started in 1890s but Conspiracy theorists use it for anti-semitism. In their case they think Zionism means Judaism.
What’s ironic is that palestinians are a semitic group by both old and new definition. So “I support Zionism” is used to justify anti-semitism too.
So from both sides it’s used by anti-semites.
Antisemitism as a term has only ever meant hatred against Jews. There’s no irony here. The very argument you’re using is regularly used to says that Palestinians can’t be antisemitic.
Antisemitism has little to do with Judaism as a religion and everything to do with Jews as a people or race.
The Hierarchy Enslaving You
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!
That’s why all the Great Replacement nutters should get special treatment.
A Jewish plot to replace all white people, who have armed their genocidal ethnostate without question for the last 70 years, with that famous ally of the Jews who they get on so well with: Muslims.
I knew OJ was behind it all.
…fuck.
Tak does not require we think of him, only that we think
-Thud, Terry Pratchett
This feels like how it was reading Harry Potter as a kid vs as an adult.
-Which platform?
-9 and 3/4 platform.
-9 and 3 what?
-9 and 3/4 pla…
-Alright, I’m going watch something else.Is there some hidden meaning in missing here?
Nothing. It’s just that I am too old for this mystery component. Something can sound magical and mysterious to me, but not like a stupid platform number. In my opinion it’s more children orientated.
I was talking more about JK Rowling’s right wing rhetoric in the Harry Potter books.
Why does he do that?
It’s when he remembers that Jews exist.
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No no he’s onto something, jewelers invented trees to sell more tree-themed jewelry
Trees are obviously made up by Canadians to disguise where maple syrup Really comes from.
It is secreted by the maple glands of the Canadians themselves
Via an extremely slow lactation process
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
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.
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