• @almar_quigley
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    1212 hours ago

    This goes further back than that. I remember the first x files movie really leaning into this conspiracy that FeMA could be used to basically take over the country. Of course back then conspiracy theories were fun and on the cringiest of folks actually bought into them. Not so much anymore.

    • DarkThoughts
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      511 hours ago

      It wasn’t that the conspiracy shit was fun, but that the X Files were a fictional TV show. Stargate uses a metric fuckton of conspiracy shit too in their world building but only complete loons would take any of that seriously.

      • @almar_quigley
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        811 hours ago

        Agree to disagree. Back in the 90’s there were plenty of fun conspiracy theory shows on discovery and other channels that weren’t in the same vein as ancient aliens or other shows out today which are trying super hard to prove the theories as fact. They were campy and fun and not hosted by coke addled pseudoscience psychopaths with fake degrees.

        • DarkThoughts
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          311 hours ago

          Ancient aliens were a thing back then already. lol That’s literally what Stargate’s base plot is based on and one of the most famous book authors on that topic, Erich von Däniken, had been writing bullshit books since the 70s about it. I know way too much about all of this because I had the pleasure of growing up under all of this garbage.

          • @MutilationWave
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            No shit dildo, they’re ancient. They’re not talking about current day aliens.