Not sure if this really counts but I once had a guy at work tell me the most original conspiracy theory I've ever heard, that being that Japan secretly won WWII and the National Park Service was actually a front for an elite group of Samurai to control the US.
Apparently Alcatraz is there home base. Another coworker claimed this dude had been banned from Alcatraz for sneaking away from tour groups.
Dude was also a huge racist and got fired for it. He’s apparently anti-vax now.
damn hes like that one japanese guy in some place in oceania that just kept killing and refused to believe the japanese surrendered in ww2
Mind you he thought this was a bad thing. Guy also really hated anime.
Don't you litter in this pristine forest now lest you face the steel of smokey the bear.
I'm legit playing a tabletop campaign right now where this is the premise. Bears found a supernatural artifact that made them progressively smarter with each generation, and at the time of the campaign, they're now attacking campers who start camp fires because only the bears should be allowed to have fire
Now i want to read fiction based on this premise alone.
My mother has asserted to me multiple times that the British public votes to retain the monarchy every year because it's a democratic institution.
Kind of basic, but all of my coworkers believe they'll someday run the company and it won't just be the owner's son.
My old boss who worked in a field to offer social services to recently released prisoners believed that all prisoners should be castrated. She would also tell me certain words in English were inherently male or female and men could be made more docile by changing their vocabulary to more feminine words. One time she told me Obama was born in Saudi Arabia.
The most brainwormed thing I've ever heard is my coworker's proposal for a perfect society that he explained to me over several months. It would involve every single person in their own enclosed environment they're not allowed to leave. All their needs are supplied to them through an AI mastermind that no living person is allowed to reprogram or control. He said this is important because humans can't be trusted. No physical interaction between people is allowed. All reproduction is done through artificial insemination. The only time two people interact is when one person is accused of some kind of crime. He never specified what a crime would be, but whatever. When a crime occurs, you and your peers are put onto some kind of zoom call and discuss the crime like a trial. Then a vote occurs throughout the whole community and if the suspect is found guilty, they're incinerated immediately. If not found guilty, every person in the nearby area is given a camera feed into their life pod thing for the next 3 months. Also this guy idolized Ted Kaczynski
The most brainwormed thing I’ve ever heard is my coworker’s proposal for a perfect society that he explained to me over several months. It would involve every single person in their own enclosed environment they’re not allowed to leave. All their needs are supplied to them through an AI mastermind that no living person is allowed to reprogram or control. He said this is important because humans can’t be trusted. No physical interaction between people is allowed. All reproduction is done through artificial insemination. The only time two people interact is when one person is accused of some kind of crime. He never specified what a crime would be, but whatever. When a crime occurs, you and your peers are put onto some kind of zoom call and discuss the crime like a trial. Then a vote occurs throughout the whole community and if the suspect is found guilty, they’re incinerated immediately. If not found guilty, every person in the nearby area is given a camera feed into their life pod thing for the next 3 months. Also this guy idolized Ted Kaczynski
That's not even Lib or Chud brained, I think that guy is legitimately mentally deranged.
apropos of nothing, but is there a high concentration of lead or industrial waste in your area?
I live and grew up in east Texas, so yes to those and also more. Also very intense car culture and benzene clouds floating around
if people aren't interacting in any way what crimes can there possibly be :thinking-about-it:
my best guess would be any sort of attempt to escape your pod or refusing to do the daily rituals he wanted people assigned to (like a pledge of allegiance to the super computer was one of them)
The :panopticon: isn't real, it can't hurt you.
standing behind me
:knife-threat: :panopticon: :knife-threat:
like, all of it or something specifically?
i'm learning from y'all that I might be surrounded by an above average amount of complete fish brained reactionaries and everything just sounds the same to me now
I told him one time that his perfect society sounded like a 1970s dystopia film like Soylent Green and he responded positively that movie is what inspired him
Wow what the fuck.
I give you 2:1 odds that he left out a detail that, if included, would make it clear that this society is actually an elaborate fetish fantasy.
The most brainwormed thing I’ve ever heard is my coworker’s proposal for a perfect society that he explained to me over several months. It would involve every single person in their own enclosed environment they’re not allowed to leave. All their needs are supplied to them through an AI mastermind that no living person is allowed to reprogram or control. He said this is important because humans can’t be trusted. No physical interaction between people is allowed. All reproduction is done through artificial insemination. The only time two people interact is when one person is accused of some kind of crime. He never specified what a crime would be, but whatever. When a crime occurs, you and your peers are put onto some kind of zoom call and discuss the crime like a trial. Then a vote occurs throughout the whole community and if the suspect is found guilty, they’re incinerated immediately. If not found guilty, every person in the nearby area is given a camera feed into their life pod thing for the next 3 months. Also this guy idolized Ted Kaczynski
this is legitimately insane and probably the result of some sort of extreme paranoia
Turning your society into a game of Paranoia to own the libs?
Remember citizens, the Computer is your friend :1984:
Clones in Paranoia have way more freedom than that, hell, mutants have more freedom.
Holy shit, maybe this is where he got the idea. Like this is uncanny how similar it is.
i suspect he may have been taking the piss if he's really a fan of uncle ted. but also a lot of too-online neoreactionaries have this bizarre relationship with "modernity" where they view it as the death spiral of humanity and still want to accelerate it (i haven't read Land's Fanged Noumena but i'm pretty sure this is what it's about).
I knew this person for 2 years, so if he was just doing a bit, it was extremely committed and he never broke character. He also wasn't online at all. But maybe that was part of the bit too. I don't know.
words in English were inherently male or female and men could be made more docile by changing their vocabulary to more feminine words
ok so there are languages where words have arbitrary genders, English is not one of them, and there is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis so who knows, it might work. Better than castration at least.
In line at a burrito place in SF a week or so after Russia went into Ukraine, some middle age white lib told her friend 'it's gonna be sooooo (insert vocal fry) hard to boycott sushi when China invades Taiwan'
White people are so fucked, I've spent my entire life hearing about how my entire ethnic group is a bunch of subhuman morlocks pouring over the border while also hearing how much everyone loves Mexican food
He had told me we needed a plague deal with wealth inequality, so I don’t know why he cared for the landlords of China…
People who are, one one hand "BLACK BOOK OF GOMMUNISM!" then immediately turn around and say "Akshually we need a plague to kill 4 billion people" are fascinating specimens.
He had told me we needed a plague deal with wealth inequality, so I don’t know why he cared for the landlords of China…
I don't think that's because he expects people with a lot of money to get sick, tbh.
I may have said “it isn’t anyone elses fault you’ve never had an orgasm” to the most horrified face I have ever seen.
god. damn.
Monarchy is so fucking stupid you could just quote Locke at them lmao
Some days I feel like I just have some REALLY shit political takes but honestly at least I'm nowhere near as bad as fucking monarchists. Knowing those guys exist make me feel like I have a brain the size of the moon
oh you think authority is bad? but what about my deep psychological need to be dominated? checkmate, liberals
“Fukuyama was actually correct but China couldn’t have that so they engineered a world in which he was wrong”
So he’s wrong, right? That means he’s wrong. Courtesy of my last stem Fukuyama stan professor.
STEM is the hardest hitting argument for the importance of political supervision you could make.
Oh my god, nobody told China we're not doing history anymore! They've been reacting to events this whole time!
westoids are like a small child who wants to make up new rules when they start losing at a board game
the course of history was forever changed when Francis Fukuyama wrote that book one time.
some chud was talking about the elites who are trying to take away our freedom or some run of the mill chud shit like that and I was just zoning out cause I was at work and couldn’t get out of the conversation, but then I heard her mention “the wealthy baristas” and I just busted out laughing. Like, motherfucker, hate the green haired baristas all you want I guess, but it takes some real intense brainworms to think they’re wealthy.
'I don't care what we do to homeless people. Kill them, imprison them, give them houses. I don't care. I just don't wanna be approached by a filthy man that just shit himself while I'm on a date with my girl.'
well, as long as he doesn't have to pay any taxes or live near the houses
"No one has ever eaten bats/wild pigs/monkeys or anything harmful in modern times, every single modern disease since HIV, including Ebola and COVID 19, has been made in a lab. Either by the Americans, Chinese or Russians."
Guy said this to me in person irl in February 2020 when COVID starred going global. Guy then proceeded to stalk and harrass one of my friends because he wanted to date her.
Yes, all of this actually happened. Very cool and normal people here in South Africa.
being in his late 40s. All of his references are from shit in the 90s and he has the worst take on every subject like it’s his job.
Damn, I'm feeling called out.
All of his references are from shit in the 90s and he has the worst take on every subject like it’s his job.
I think a lot of right-wingers opinions are stuck in the 90s, I've heard several of them whine about the welfare that Bill Clinton wiped out like 30 years ago like it's still a current thing.
Americans in general have no idea how paltry and dehumanizing and hard to get welfare is in the US. They still believe in Reagan era lies about "Welfare Queens" like 1980 wasn't forty years ago.
I one time, in front of a guy doing the whole "ezy welfare queen" thing, pulled up the florida state website on welfare and showed him it was like 50 bucks and fruit basket aside from food stamps, and he still refused to believe me. Like I dared him to try and find/apply for more and he would just refuse and dig in his heels that "unmarried mothers" were getting like 50K a year.
Dude needs serious help and to face some serious consequences for being a creep.
Ask him to do something and say you’ll pay him. Then later day you’ve changed the terms of the deal and the exposure and experience he’s received is worth more than the money ever could.
Kinda wild he has a half dozen sexual harassment complaints made against him but still has his job.
Standard.
I know multiple people who fully buy into the idea that homeless people have the easiest lives and all make 6 figures anually from panhandling
This is actually a really common set of brainworms in the Deaf community. To start, there's resentment of "peddlers", which are Deaf people who "play up" their deafness while panhandling to evoke sympathy and make more money, often by handing out cards with the manual alphabet on them. So far, you can sort of see where that resentment might come from, in that the Deaf community is really big on Deafhood being a positive thing and that plays off deafness being a negative thing to get sympathy and money.
But then, as part of that resentment, people are convinced that these peddlers are all super rich, which is also meant to make the non-peddler Deaf people martyrs- "I could be rich too if I was willing to shuck and jive, but I have too much dignity for that" basically
that doesn't sound like much of a "community" to me. like, it's a disability. if someone doesn't have the social bonds and material necessities that deaf and hearing people rely on, suddenly it becomes a lot more disabling.
Yes but deaf people have their own language group and culture that that entails. You get some really interesting inter community fights about it, especially surrounding things like coclear implants. Like I can see both sides of the argument, it's a quite interesting conundrum.
I remember some "investigative reporting" back in the 00s or 90s or something that pushed the idea that panhandlers were all making 5-6 figures and living in nice houses and shit. And people, being gullible, bought in to this shit. Point is, it's not something people came up with themselves, the idea was actually promulgated by the media at various points.
It's John Stossel . He did the whole "homeless people getting into BMWs" thing ( never mind that old luxury cars can be cheap, because they can break if you look at them funny)
I got that bullshit personally when I used to help out with some toys for tots programs. "Look at these shameful homeless people with their new cars" like a car isn't a requirement to work. And at the time car payments were probably a couple of hundred dollars a month. But no clearly bc they were driving a car that was only a few years old they had stacks of hidden wealth that they were lying about so they could get a barbie and a football for their kids.
I really enjoy king of the hill, but my god, some of the episodes are just so, so bad. Like, the powderpuff football game, which was basically "misogyny: the episode". Or that time Peggy is singlehandedly responsible for gentrifying a neighborhood because she sold some houses to hipsters. Or that time Hank starts working at that food co-op, where apparently no one had ever figured out how to rotate stock before Hank showed them how. Or that time Peggy makes friends with a trans woman? Drag queen? The show is very unclear and much of the conflict of the episode centers around the issue that Peggy is feeling confident and feminine about her feet for the first time, but she's hanging out with "men", so is she really finding femininity?
So yeah, amusing show with some stand out bits, but so much of it is so, so bad. And I really wish Hank (and Peggy) would realize they're being asses before the last minute or so of the episode. They never learn, they just do the same assholeish behavior every episode and then at the end they're always like, oh wait, I'm an ass. And after like 2 seasons of that I was already over it.
My father is opposed to public housing, public investment in housing, homeless shelters, etc, but he's also in favor of the government building a whole lot of houses for homeless people to live in.
No he cannot successfully elaborate on whatever he thinks the distinction is.
Just don't call it public I guess. These are private homes built by the private government so it's good actually
It's that shitty churchill quote
Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time
I've heard variations of that quote throughout my entire life, constantly. I hate it so much,
If its so bad in southeast asia why don't they go back to america?
“I am so sick of poor people dominating gaming. Developers are forced to make weaker games with worse graphics because the poor need to be catered do. My rig is top of the line and nothing uses its full potential.”
Someone said this to me on this site lol. I think they deleted their account after getting dunked on
Yeah it was over the system requirements for Windows 11 and they fought that the higher requirements would give us better games somehow.
Yeah, those developers from checks notes making games in 90's that I'm playing with an emulator on a 2011 toaster.
Dev's and their time machines, man... :joker-gaming:
:so-true: "IF IT DOESNT TURN BOTH YOUR GPU AND CPU SO HOT THAT THEY MELT THROUGH THE TABLE WITHOUT A MILITARY GRADE COOLING APPARATUS THEN THE GAME IS EFFEMINATE AND WEAK!"
“Transgenderism is a choice, every man wishes he was a woman.”
I was just like
:huh:
Guy needs to go to therapy or talk to someone, even himself, and work that out.
:soviet-hmm:
