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What is the most unhinged conspiracy theory? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago by Vej@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I feel like flat earthers might be the most insane one I'm familiar with - I don't keep up with the conspiracy-verse though.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Dan Olson did a great video on flat earthers. With a mid-video twist on why you don't see as much of them anymore as you used to

In Search Of A Flat Earth

Production wise it's one of my favorite video essays

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What happened? Did a bunch of them fall off the edge?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I wish.

In case people don't want to get spoiled:

spoiler

The essay theorizes that the people flocked to qanon

[–] norbert@kbin.social 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I feel like like the QAnon stuff swept up huge swaths of otherwise unconnected conspiracy theorists. Flat earth, chemtrails, aliens, all the "classic" conspiracies just kind of got co-opted and folded into the big crazy tent of insane people.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

yup. that's exactly what the second half of the video is about

[–] norbert@kbin.social 5 points 6 months ago

It's kind of a bummer. Aliens and Bilderbergers and Government Mind Control used to be fun little thought experiments to smoke a J and play what-if with your friends; but you can't even bring that stuff up anymore without someone thinking you're serious and bringing up adrenochrome or (((Globalists)))

This timeline sucks, I want to go back to when everyone knew the X-Files was a TV show and fascists kept their brainrot on AM radio.

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