• Aljernon@lemmy.today
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    There is significant overlap between people who believed in Qanon and People who are convinced that Trump is completely innocent of the allegations.

    Believing in a fake pedo conspiracy set up by people to protect the guilty in a real pedo conspiracy doesn’t earn you any props in my book.

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      It’s all surface level but it gives them something build from

      Jewish guy running a child sex ring with many elites involved plus protected by the government apparently, then there’s the whole isreal thing with a lot of mainstream media on thier side for some reason

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        8 hours ago

        Except now it appears that Jewish guy was also involved with the board favored by internet conspiracy theorists. Must be a wild time for them.

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          Yes, The Conspiracy was the one that decided to create the conspiracy theorists…

          Have you seen Star Gate SG-I?

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            6 hours ago

            I don’t really mean those guys, I mean the original ones who were taken along for the ride, you know the ones who used to call into the Art Bell show but then got caught up in this stuff. I have not but been meaning to lol.

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        Things get less sticky when you start viewing all Abrahamic faiths as shit.

        Am I antisemetic? Yeah, in the same way that I think Muslims and Christians are fucking horrible too.

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    I noticed a little over a decade ago that there was an uptick in discourse over conspiracy theories and a muddying of the waters around them. And it became clear to me that there was an upside for those participating in secret dealings to foment more and more conspiracy talk etc. The more noise, the better.

    I feel like the Epstein files release confirms the vibe I got. The right really does want everyone stupid and confused. 4chan, Reddit, and later Joe Rogan and X are all tools in this effort.

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    Lol, had this hard core conspiracy theorist he would constantly go on about the most unbelievable stuff, he came in today and started with his normal conspiracy nonsense and I just yup. He was like well yeah everyone knows that but did you know this even bigger thing? Yeah dude it was in the Epstein files

    Well yeah but wait until we get the rest of the files!

    Ok, I believe you.

    But it’s going to change everything, like everything will be different!

    An I started on a target, ok how? How will anything be any different at all?

    Well there’s going to be more people in the files.

    Ok so? How could it possibly get more than this? Tell me one person exactly one person who it would make a difference on? The president of the unintended states for generations are proven pfile and you think anything will change because of the stuff they didn’t release? You want to know what I think? I think you won I think all your conspiracy theories are correct and everyone knows it now and it changed nothing and nothing is going to come out of it and now you are just looking for something that makes you feel special, get over it.

    I never saw anyone look so defeated in my life.

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    7 hours ago

    I’m tired of winning. President Trump can we stop winning, I’m begging you. /s