…fuck.
Yes, we do have a bit of a situation.
Tak does not require we think of him, only that we think
-Thud, Terry Pratchett
Gedichte
nur für mich
und für dich
stehn alleine auch für sich.What this means is that just like the mountains don’t depend on the humans to see and interpret them, poems (who are written only for myself, and coincidentally also for any reader who may stumble upon them) are meaningful in themselves, and don’t need to concern themselves with what humans think of them.
it’s kinda like software code has a meaning in itself, but is ideally also a beautiful art of self-expression for any programmer who happens to read it.
That doesn’t mean we can’t still admire and talk about them.
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.
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?
No no he’s onto something, jewelers invented trees to sell more tree-themed jewelry
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.
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.
💀
Rain was invented by umbrella companies to sell more umbrellas.
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
Mmmm, maple syrup tiddies…
Come have a suck
Visa and Mastercard would like to know your location
Soylent Syrup!
It’s made of… moose!
Canadians have real food standards.
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.”
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.
The scaleies are out there
Yes I am aware of scalies, I am in several fandom that overlap with them and the furries.
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.
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)
Not sure about a lot. Like a handful of the tamest ones.
- MK Ultra
- Cointelpro
- Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- CIA assassination plots
- Iran Contra
All of these were “conspiracy theories” when I was young and now we know they really happened. This is just off the top of my head. These are not really “tame” in my book.
Counterpoint: the “Jews” didn’t kill Texas kids in a flood, the local Texas government that stole federal funds from the flood warning system to give bonuses to sheriffs did.
Pizzagate called Epstein’s island 3 years early.
those ones were “cool” and “pulpy” conspiracy theories (maybe not the syphilis one, that’s just gross), and made for good fiction at the time. What’s retroactively traumatizing tho is just how much of them actually weren’t fiction.
“Tame” like conducting experiments for chemical warfare on humans?
“Tame” like smuggling Cocaine into the US to help a Fascist terrorist group in El Salvador murder tens of thousands of people on the one hand and paying weapons to fuel a war between Iraq and Iran on the other hand with that money?
“Tame” like helping Saddam Hussein use chemical weapons? https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/08/26/215733981/new-details-on-how-u-s-helped-saddam-as-he-gassed-iran
“Tame” like the NSA spying on everyone and everything?
“Tame” like the NSA providing information on US citizens to Israel, while Israel is conducting targeted assassinations? https://theintercept.com/2019/05/29/israel-drone-strikes-intelligence-nsa/
Were these ever conspiracy theories or just revealed secret information?
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.
I knew OJ was behind it all.
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
at least art bell never took himself seriously
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