• Robert_Kennedy_Jr [xe/xem, xey/xem]
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    2 months ago

    Bit of a relief to be honest. Someone needed to shut the universe down until we figure out what the hell is going on.

  • Big_Bob [any]
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    2 months ago

    HOLY JESUS, 50 000 ALIENS ARE BURSTING OUT OF MY ASSHOLE AS WE SPEAK

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    So what % of Americans actually believe stuff like this? 2-3%? 5%?

    inb4 "most Americans are religious so about 80%"

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      2 months ago

      At least 17% as of 2022 so it's probably more by now.

      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/23/qanon-believers-increased-america-study-finds

      Chris Hedges talks a lot about this, how material conditions continue to degrade people turn to magical thinking.

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Yeah but most Qanon people aren't fully into all this alien invasion crap, they just believe Hollywood is full of pedophiles (correct) and Trump is going to save the children from migrant hordes of satanic criminals (incorrect). I wanna know how many true freaks that believe in reptilian aliens there are.

          • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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            2 months ago

            I think that given enough time, someone who gets into Qanon and stays in whatever community is beaming that garbage into their heads will slowly radicalize and start believing in that stuff. But there's kind of a balance to it, where some people who are fully into it stop believing as time goes on and nothing happens.

  • Omegamint [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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    2 months ago

    Sometimes I think about that one time I did a PCP analogue and went fully manic and started thinking this way, and then afterwards told myself "never again".

    But hey, maybe again

  • Philosophosphorous
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    2 months ago

    i am willing to defect to the aliens, especially if they let me pilot an alien mecha against the imperialists

  • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    There is a surprisingly alright Dr Who spinoff series called "Class" where the central big bad is a genocidal army of shadow people that just, like, step outta a person's shadow and shank 'em.

    If Class is anything to go by, we simply need to find a teenage girl with sufficient anger issues to fight these aliens' leader in an arena kinda like a Dark Souls boss to fix this.

  • volcel_olive_oil [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    it's time to put on makeup

    it's time to dress up right

    it's time to meet the 60 billion aliens coming in through the shadows, the light, by shockwave tonight

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        • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          In my headcanon he was dead in the cartoon. His toy was one of the ones licensed from a non-Takara company, and licensing royalties are far more powerful than Unicron. His character was better in the comics, though.

          "formed a friendship with Cancer" might seem like a weird sentence to some, but I just thought "oh yeah, the character from Super-God Masterforce".

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            • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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              2 months ago

              Probably the best Transformers games ever, although that PS2 Armada game is overlooked.

              Then Activision did what they always do and shoved another company into the Cawadoody mines after Deadpool flopped.