• @[email protected]
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    216 months ago

    I feel like flat earthers might be the most insane one I’m familiar with - I don’t keep up with the conspiracy-verse though.

    • SkaveRat
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      216 months ago

      Dan Olson did a great video on flat earthers. With a mid-video twist on why you don’t see as much of them anymore as you used to

      In Search Of A Flat Earth

      Production wise it’s one of my favorite video essays

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        66 months ago

        What happened? Did a bunch of them fall off the edge?

        • SkaveRat
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          6 months ago

          I wish.

          In case people don’t want to get spoiled:

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          The essay theorizes that the people flocked to qanon

          • norbert
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            96 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
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              36 months ago

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

              • norbert
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                56 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.