Well, let's start off with the trucker convoy style Canadians attacking and stealing from firefighters, that's directly affecting me

My own damn mom is talking about directed energy weapons re: Maui. People should be talking about single occupant vehicles. I had to go to Zhao Dashuai's Twitter and show her China's war of the worlds style lazers, how short the range is. They don't look like star wars! She used to know this crap! She's not even old dude!

Can you guys please reply to this with all the crazy tiktok and elon disinformation crap so I know what to expect? I'm scared lmao

  • thisonethatone [he/him]
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    a year ago

    Yeah I was helping a patient and her husband whipped out the "it was space lasers!" Conspiracy.

    I think people would rather believe in space lasers, because the reality that our government has sacrificed multiple cities in the last five years is far too upsetting

  • MF_COOM [he/him]
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    a year ago

    nkrumah-baffled wait lol you're saying yanks are blaming China for Maui what on Earth xi-plz

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      a year ago

      Yea according to info wars the government left on power to downed power lines and barricaded people into their communities so they could kill them all with fire so the globalist can buy up the land super cheap.

        • Adkml [he/him]
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          a year ago

          Because it's being done by bad people and China bad therefore China is the government of Hawaii but also obama.

          Please keep up

        • iridaniotter [she/her]
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          a year ago

          Jewish space lasers, Chinese space lasers, cultural Marxism.

          It's just Nazi "Judeo-Bolshevism". Always has been. astronaut-1

      • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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        a year ago

        They will buy up all the land super cheap, but that's just an everyday capitalist "happy accident", not a alex-aware "globalist' conspiracy

  • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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    a year ago

    I love how everyone is losing their minds nowadays

    We communists are basically all depressed, anxious, etc.

    Libs are frothing at their mouths with rage, seeing foreign subversion attempts everywhere, raring to go to war with anyone who threatens the rules-based international order even at the cost of WW3.

    Fascists meanwhile are outright hilarious. Space Lasers, Pedophile Cabals operating from a Pizzeria basement, a Messiah that will bring them from evil (insert local fascist leader) - also openly heretical preachings in the case of religious ones, etc.

    Not to mention the emergence of mocked ideologies like anarcho-capitalism or monarchism into the mainstream in countries like Argentina or Poland

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      a year ago

      There's also the small but very well funded bunch of cultists that declare that all the problems on Earth can be escaped by sending rich assholes into SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE to-the-moon

      Disclaimer: I mean, if all the rich assholes were launched one way into space, that may help, but that's not what the cultists mean.

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      a year ago

      The WASPs abandoning religion because they think the Bible sounds like liberal garbage when they actually hear any of it is hilarious.

      • rubpoll [she/her]
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        a year ago

        Everything Jesus said would get him labelled a Tankie today.

        • Adkml [he/him]
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          a year ago

          Appreciate the sentiment but not sure many honestly open minded people are reading thousand words comment chains on an obscure website known for leftist shitposting.

          I suppose worst case scenario other actual well meaning people are seeing how easy it is to refute democratic party talking points and I love reading them so I'm not complaining, just frustrating to read this shit then see the same people complain were an echo chamber.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    a year ago

    I don't even know what is going on I was in the shower. Maui? Directed energy weapons? War of the Worlds?

    • Pointman [he/him]
      hexagon
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      a year ago

      A bone-hurting number of people died in the Maui firestorm because of traffic & nobody getting rid of downed trees & live power lines the police were roadblocking people from, a number of people ignored their instructions & drove around or offroad and they survived. I don't trust a word out of that police chief's mouth after what they accomplished. CYOA time

      • JuryNullification [he/him]
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        a year ago

        Can’t wait for the Jinx edit about him fucking this up and relating it to the Las Vegas country festival mass shooting.

        • Pointman [he/him]
          hexagon
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          a year ago

          I remember that student who ran tbe Marina Oswald twitter saying he was a crypto reactionary I forget why. I do like the genre

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              • JuryNullification [he/him]
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                a year ago

                Oh, I’m familiar with the videos. I meant I don’t know who Jinx is, whether they’re a “crypto reactionary” as the post I replied to said or some psyop.

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            • Pointman [he/him]
              hexagon
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              a year ago

              I just think the documentary style of dramatically panning across a photo works better when it's not mostly wikipedia snippets

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    • Pointman [he/him]
      hexagon
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      a year ago

      War of the Worlds lasers are clear. Star Wars lasers are green and red.

      Tiktok videos of a laser coming out of the sky have been edited out of videos of industrial explosions. People believe these composites more if you lower the image resolution again after you make it 🤪

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          a year ago

          People believed a long dead Kennedy would return to life and coronate God-Emperor Trump and begin a great purge and clear their credit card debts while also curing their diseases with "med beds." Are space lasers that much of a stretch?

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    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      a year ago

      all the conspiracies about the government having secret weapons that make everyone stupid and scared and compliant are real except no one's controlling it and it's called the internet.

        • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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          a year ago

          They're trying but even within the agencies there's no specific goal or program outside of the advancement of a single fed's career. the strategy of tension is a runaway diesel by this point.

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    a year ago

    The fucking space laser thing is so fucking mind boggling to me. We all grew up knowing a cigarette butt could start a wildfire when it's dry! That has been shared knowledge for the entire lives of everyone alive.

    If the Chinese wanted to start a wildfire for ????reasons???? they could send a single tourist with a bic lighter. But no, fictional fucking space lasers. What the fuck?

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      a year ago

      The nazis used to talk about how big lies were easier to believe than little lies.

    • Pointman [he/him]
      hexagon
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      a year ago

      The tripartite physics deboonk here is kid stuff.

      Show

      Literal physical meteors, shit from the sun & all over the universe deflects off the atmosphere.

      There's no way to get enough energy up there to power something like that. You would need a huge nuclear space station I bet that's still off by orders of magnitude.

  • newmou [he/him]
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    a year ago

    God damn it my mom is talking about the same god damn DEW shit

  • Catradora_Stalinism [she/her, comrade/them]
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    a year ago

    As someone in hawaii, idk why anyone expected for the relief efforts to help any of us. The US government helps the tourist industry and the Military industrial complex, not people.

  • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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    a year ago

    Maybe try a polite, humoring chuckle and "you can't believe everything you see on the internet."

  • eXAt [he/him]
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    a year ago

    Always love giving local example but for Canadian Wildfires one I heard multiple times was that Rachel Notley was paying homeless people to bus out from Edmonton to set fire to conservative areas ahead of the provincial election. Once the election was done the fire were to ‘push the climate change agenda’.