https://nitter.net/marina0swald/status/1588256345857589248

I didn't watch the episode because their 9/11 episodes led me not to trust them on conspiracy stuff. It looks like I made the right call. Did they really buy the Warren Commission? Lol. Lmao.

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I was an extremely anti-conspiracy New Atheist debunker for the first thirty years of my life, but my worldview changed shortly after I became a leftist and learned more about the CIA's history and the immense power of American propaganda.

    1. Americans are the most propagandized people in history
    2. No one is immune to propaganda

    Any comrade who truly internalizes these two axioms is willing to critically examine things they once dismissed as lunacy. When I finally learned that the "conspiracy theorists" I once mocked had been right about certain things all along, it broke my psyche (TrueAnon and Epstein helped with that). Now I approach all of these topics with extreme humility.

    Antisemitism is sadly common among people who lack a materialist framework to make sense of state crimes against democracy.

    Oh, and about those frogs...

    • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Respectfully, that study makes the frogs trans, not gay.

      Secondly, the study hasn’t been replicated since and additional studies have found nothing of the sort. Here’s the wiki on the drug, go to the amphibian section.

      I don’t understand how someone who was an anti-conspiracy atheist turns a 180 but you do you.

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        What's a crazier conspiracy theory, the idea that Iran is a threat to American democracy, or the idea that chemical pollution is altering wildlife?

        That was my only point in sharing that study (it's a paraphrased quote from the podcast). I know that the frogs aren't actually turned gay. Endocrine disrupting pollution is a major environmental issue regardless of this single drug or study. Be wary of wikipedia, most pages are written by a company's PR department.

        • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Be wary of wikipedia, most pages are written by a company’s PR department.

          only about a 1/3 were written by Steven Pruitt, don't exaggerate it. :bougie-wink: and that was years ago now they have way more nameless private sector stooges writing articles and controlling talk pages. There's a tampermonkey plugin called "whocolor" that lets you see what users are most responsible for any given page.

      • Vncredleader
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        2 years ago

        God forbid people be capable of change

      • blue_lives_murder [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        I think you need to look up what the company that initially paid Dr. Hayes for his first study has done to him in the years following that.

        Bootlicking capital because some grifter turned a legit thing into a meme isn't a good look.