Conspiracy Theories: JFK, RFK, and Stevie Wonder Can See!

[mookie1995]

...The best lies are mostly truth.

just always remember, it takes two people to lie

[Kepler]

not that I trust the CIA on anything

Good policy.

[Swansong]

Every once in a while I know something because of ahem experience. This is dumb. There actually is a particular SIGINT device that does scramble your brains and the rest of your cells if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time and I suspect that is how this rumor got started but it has nothing to do with the situations in which the AHI have been observed at embassies.

Sometime the answer really is "we don't know yet."

Yeah, not that I trust the CIA on anything, but would anyone really be surprised if they were actually correct here? Or close to correct? The best lies are mostly truth.

[Kepler]

I think this is probably closer than I'd like to believe
https://twitter.com/quantian1/status...004506624?s=21

Every once in a while I know something because of ahem experience. This is dumb. There actually is a particular SIGINT device that does scramble your brains and the rest of your cells if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time and I suspect that is how this rumor got started but it has nothing to do with the situations in which the AHI have been observed at embassies.

Sometime the answer really is "we don't know yet."

[dxmnkd316]

Lol. CIA has found "other plausible causes" for Havana Syndrome and coincidentally a victims fund is created

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/statu...916495872?s=21

I think this is probably closer than I'd like to believe
https://twitter.com/quantian1/status...004506624?s=21

I am now completely onboard the “NSA SIGINT devices microwaved CIA officers’ brains, the NSA knew it all along, then tried to cover it up by gaslighting/stonewalling them” theory of Havana Syndrome. Look at how carefully worded this statement is to not rule out friendly fire!

[Swansong]

The author has a podcast called "You're Wrong About" - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/6...es-to-fox-news

He does try to be careful about avoiding the easy and lazy "ok, boomer" crap and definitely acknowledges that this phenomenon is much more prevalant on the right than on the left.

[Kepler]

I posted this in the Covid thread but it seems more appropriate here:

I can't recommend the article enough. Click through to the source links; some of those studies are fascinating, with horrifying implications.

It runs both ways. The Q survivors reddit site is also filled with stories of parents whose children disappeared down the RWNJ rabbit hole. The article is going to blare about BoomerBrain because they know their audience's clickity click vanities, but it's really ConservaBrain. That side of the political spectrum is in really bad shape cognitively.

The good news is, we have a more organized, well-funded, and vibrant social psychology infrastructure now. We are basically getting a redo to do all the studies and analyses of 1920's Germany reactionaries. We are going to emerge from this (assuming we survive) with a much more thorough understanding of how fascism takes root in righties' brains and what to do to inoculate, or at least contain, them.

[Swansong]

I posted this in the Covid thread but it seems more appropriate here:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/inter...b6a4a2dc813d3d

Amazing article on people insisting they know more about a subject than their children that have actual expertise on said subject.


Lesson: propaganda works.

I can't recommend the article enough. Click through to the source links; some of those studies are fascinating, with horrifying implications.

[Kepler]

Apparently, this was a thing, but we missed it.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Will repeat as often as I need to:

My favorite conspiracy is everything will be okay in the end.

That's right. Stop being hysterical!

[MissThundercat]

Will repeat as often as I need to:

My favorite conspiracy is everything will be okay in the end.

[dxmnkd316]

He's full, rock hard Qanon at this point.

[MissThundercat]

I have to wonder if Flaggy was out there waiting for JFK Jr's resurrection.

Then again, I need brain bleach for even thinking of him.

[MissThundercat]

There are no salt and vinegar chips. There are only vinegar chips.

[Kepler]