• aramis87
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    1710 days ago

    Years ago, I had a friend who was warning me that the National Guard was going to move to put everyone into FEMA camps at 10pm next Tuesday. I called her up, explained how it was a QAnon conspiracy theory that wasn’t going to happen, talked her down, yet she was still like “well, it can’t hurt to be careful next week”.

    I brought it up to her a few weeks later, in an attempt to get her away from her crazy QAnon-addicted Facebook friends, and she barely even remembered it.

    • @[email protected]
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      1310 days ago

      Conspiracy theories are like movie trailers. They’re designed to build your anticipation and get you buying in on opening night. Doesn’t matter if the movie is a flop, so long as they got your money off the first weekend of hype.