• CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
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      -Which platform?
      -9 and 3/4 platform.
      -9 and 3 what?
      -9 and 3/4 pla…
      -Alright, I’m going watch something else.

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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.

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      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.

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      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?

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    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

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      …flat earth nazis… they invented practical ballistic rocketry for fucks… I just… like… goddamn…

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        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.

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    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.

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      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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        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.

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    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

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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.

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    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.

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    Most conspiracy theories get very close to the truth before the take a turn straight into schizophrenia village.