It's fucking baffling that all of these people have experienced ecological threats that fucked up the air, water, and everything in general and ignored that, saw a plane flying by, and shouted "POISON!" And now, instead of picking up on a credible threat, they had to go with predatory cabals under pizza restaurants and mole-children.

I know media/news narratives are powerful, but god damn.

    • Washburn [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      But also, you can't really personally do anything about microplastics. There isn't a community of people regularly fired up and talking about how microplastics are the big bad, destroying the world. A big part of why people get into Q-anon and other right wing conspiracy is because it provides a community to be a part of, and because just consuming media about the conspiracies, or as they call it "educating yourself," or " doing your own research," you are a participant against the imagined conspiracy.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    The best is that they think soy is turning men into women and are totally silent on the credit card's worth of plastic they consume in a week shrinking their penis and making them infertile.

  • jabrd [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I swear all of these 'movements,' if you can call them that, are ops because they always perfectly avoid coming to the correct conclusions

  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Maybe you could try convincing them that like Bill Gates or whomever personally engineered the whole microplastic thing because he hates big beautiful penises

    You need a bad guy with a nefarious plan for these guys to care

  • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    planes flying by are putting out poison lmao leaded jet fuel bbeeeeeeeeeee

    nevermind the whole baking us alive w/fossil fuels

    • Claus [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      :geordi-no: Literally toxic plane exhaust sprayed into the air.

      :geordi-yes: "But what if the government had people spraying out mind-control gas?"

  • comi [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    But that’s like defining characteristics of conspiracy people: they pick the ones without evidence, and construct reality around it

    • Claus [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Yeah. It's my fault that I'm trying to workshop conspiracy theories to make sense.

  • D61 [any]
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    4 years ago

    Its easy to understand and communicate with enough plausibility that with a liberal use of "moving the goal posts" we get to feel like we're "in the know" but not actually having to take responsibility for it.