90% of Americans believe at least one conspiracy theory (4 Viewers)

[Sailorsaint]

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/08/us-alien-spacecraft-program-pentagon-report-00146013

 

[Eeyore]

 

[Optimus Prime]

I always wonder of much of things like this are real vs just people forking with people who actually believe things like this

 

[DaveXA]

Seriously. There's this bat sheet nuts woman in my wife's church who think pharmacists are witches and pharmaceuticals are witchcraft and sorcery. She's 100% serious too.

 

[DaveXA]

I always wonder of much of things like this are real vs just people forking with people who actually believe things like this

There's a lot of fake and staged stuff out there, but there's enough out there that are weird and true to make you wonder.

 

[Taurus]

There's a lot of fake and staged stuff out there, but there's enough out there that are weird and true to make you wonder.

We are living in the Age of Poe's Law

 

[baarbogast]

We are living in the Age of Poe's Law

I had to look that up, I never heard that.

 

[Yatman]

Boeing whistleblower found dead

Last week, he gave a formal deposition in which he was questioned by Boeing's lawyers, before being cross-examined by his own counsel.

He had been due to undergo further questioning on Saturday. When he did not appear, enquiries were made at his hotel.

Boeing Whistleblower Who Raised Quality Concerns Is Found Dead

Known as Swampy because of his Louisiana roots, Mr. Barnett worked at Boeing for nearly three decades until he retired in 2017. He had worked at Boeing’s factory in Everett, Wash., before moving to a new factory in North Charleston, S.C., in 2010 to work on Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, a wide-body jet that was the company’s most important new plane in a generation.

 

[Eeyore]

 

[Eeyore]

 

[DaveXA]

It's like the nuts are running the asylum now.

 

[Optimus Prime]

That poor dentist

 

[Sailorsaint]

I would advise him to not bow to scientism and forego the numbing shots. That'll show 'em.

 

[Sun Wukong]

It's like the nuts are running the asylum now.

Because they are.

I've been yelled at (and I do mean yelled) by students who fervently believe the Earth is flat. Or that dinosaur fossils are a hoax. Or there's no such thing as space. And what shocks me is how pervasive this has all become in such a short period of time. This isn't a few whackos. That post about the RNA in a Novocain shot reads like any amount of nonsense I see family members and acquaintces post on social media on any given day.

We are in the midst of a major intellectual and cultural regression, the likes of which I'm not sure there is a direct comparison. There was a lot of knowledge and skills lost after the fall of Rome, but this is more self imposed. This is a willful embrace of lies and ignorance because social media gave everyone main character syndrome and we have millions of people who are playing the rebellious hero in their own made up little movies.

We're well and truly forked.

 

[Eeyore]