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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The part I don't get is that there are so many cool, real conspiracies out there to be explored

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

But how are you going to feel smarter than everyone else, if everyone gets convinced by your conspiracy theory?

[–] friend_of_satan 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

This is so Carl Sagan.

And so we got to talking. But not, as it turned out, about science. He wanted to talk about frozen extraterrestrials languishing in an Air Force base near San Antonio, “channeling” (a way to hear what’s on the minds of dead people—not much, it turns out), crystals, the prophecies of Nostradamus, astrology, the shroud of Turin … He introduced each portentous subject with buoyant enthusiasm. Each time I had to disappoint him: “The evidence is crummy,” I kept saying. “There’s a much simpler explanation.”

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And yet there’s so much in real science that’s equally exciting, more mysterious, a greater intellectual challenge—as well as being a lot closer to the truth. Did he know about the molecular building blocks of life sitting out there in the cold, tenuous gas between the stars? Had he heard of the footprints of our ancestors found in 4-million-year-old volcanic ash? What about the raising of the Himalayas when India went crashing into Asia? Or how viruses, built like hypodermic syringes, slip their DNA past the host organism’s defenses and subvert the reproductive machinery of cells; or the radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence; or the newly discovered ancient civilization of Ebla that advertised the virtues of Ebla beer? No, he hadn’t heard. Nor did he know, even vaguely, about quantum indeterminacy, and he recognized DNA only as three frequently linked capital letters.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And that's just science; think of all the actual conspiracies that actually happened. MKULTRA is perfect conspiracy theorist material and actually real, but that second part means it's boring

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Mkultra is almost always used to justify all conspiracies, as if the government can do that, there is no limit to what they can do. That and the tuskegee experiments, the main reason black antivaxxers are likely to hold their beliefs.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I found a good use for AI:

Undo bad language censoring in meme screen shots.

[–] Lommy 58 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Man this shit infuriates me to no end. Why?!

[–] Klear 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Americans are scared of profanity.

[–] jaybone 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Klear 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Profane Globohomos.

Has a nice ring to it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Fucking tiktok trained them like dogs.

You can't be popular on that platform unless you self censor.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

What really gets me is the self censoring outside of that platform, I refuse "unaliving" is simply too many syllables to ever make sense to me in normal conversation.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Thank god I can't see that that says bullshit... oh wait

[–] TrickDacy 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh fuck you just corrupted the fuck out of me. What in actual fuck is wrong with you, writing that on the Internet where people can read it?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Well damn, terribly sorry, I've been a real fucking ass hat towards you all, allow me to apologize like the bastard I am

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

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to the Maker of all GloboHomos:-)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I really (don't) enjoy that this is what needs censoring about this post, to get popular social media to spread it around.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Funny how they never get the message that maybe GOD IS PISSED at them.

Nooo it's all 'this is because of the gays!!' The fabulous gays of homophobe town is why it got flattened? Sure kevin

[–] barsquid 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

God couldn't possibly be mad at them. Despite doing the opposite of many things Jesus taught, they must be right. The man on the big stage at the hundred-million dollar church told them so.

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[–] eran_morad 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bro. Ppl gonna see this and be like “THAT’S RIGHT!”

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Better to identify them. ;)

[–] voracitude 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh, don't you worry, they'll identify themselves for you without any additional encouragement.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

rappelling from the ceiling

"...and the microbots in the atmosphere are making my dick gay! My dick is gay!!"

[–] AngryCommieKender 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Dammit, Bubba! I told you before, your dick ain't gay! You gots the ED! Your T levels are too low! Go take your T pills."

"Mah dick is British!"

"Gawddammit Bubba!"

[–] Sterile_Technique 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] brucethemoose 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is an actual term apparently in common circulation, though homophobia wasn't even its original intent: https://glaad.org/globohomo-definition-meaning-anti-lgbt-online-hate/

Emerging in 2016, this multi-purpose, right-wing troll invention combines homophobia and anti-Semitism. Researcher David Futrelle’s well-known misogyny tracking site We Hunted The Mammoth offers this summary: “Ostensibly, ‘globohomo’ is short for ‘global homogenization,’ an alleged vast conspiracy to destroy ‘traditional’ culture and values and replace them with a sort of global (naturally) corporate uniculture. But it’s rarely used in this way, at least not exactly. For those who’ve seized upon the term, ‘globo’ means ‘globalist’ and therefore Jews; while ‘homo’ (the suffix) means, well, ‘homo’ (the slur). (Some, evidently worried that ‘globohomo’ isn’t gay-sounding enough, add ‘gayplex’ to it — ‘globohomogayplex.’).” According to the Online Hate Research and Education Project, white nationalists and other hate movements use “globohomo” to allege the existence of a global plot to promote the so-called ‘‘LGBTQ+ agenda,” a similarly minded conspiracy theory (promoted by certain sectors of the Christian religious right) alleging that LGBTQ people aim to surpass the rights of other groups and “groom youth into identifying as part of the community.”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought globohomo was an alternate name for corporate Memphis?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I remember when they were sent by god to punish the gays, but now I find out it was sneaky Kamala all along!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Does this mean that my insurance company won't consider them acts of god anymore and will actually cover them?

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[–] needthosepylons 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

How can I apply to become a globohomo? I mean I'm a straight beta male but still, I would love to join the movement.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wouldn't that make you an arborohomo? To be a globohomo you need to fuck a light bulb

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I'm not an expert, I just like telling people to fuck trees.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Like one specific tree, or I get to pick?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah the tree picks you. You'll know it when you see it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It is nice to feel wanted.

Okay, I'm in.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

"Technically a hurricane machine would cause weather change not climate change."

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Yeah see, I'm not sure if he's serious or not

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Globohomo here too, ready for next year's globohomo pride??

[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope they bring enough body oil this time. Last year the budget was blown on chemtrails and ketamine. I was chafing SO bad during the gay satanic orgy

[–] Omgpwnies 6 points 1 month ago

Do what I do and stash an emergency bottle in the ol' prison wallet

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Cybertruck owners are already being punished.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is a joke post, right? Sarcasm? Right?

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[–] ikidd 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This sounds like a rage troll.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

It just sounds sarcastic to me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Its satire...

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