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Title: 357: Vintage Conspiracy Theories From 2002 Or Earlier
Post by: Lemon on July 27, 2021, 06:28:00 pm
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Title: 357: Vintage Conspiracy Theories From 2002 Or Earlier
Post by: Great Joe on July 28, 2021, 05:51:08 pm
I liked that Ghostbusters reference.
Title: 357: Vintage Conspiracy Theories From 2002 Or Earlier
Post by: Zemyla on July 28, 2021, 05:54:24 pm
Why specifically lesbians? I wanted to hear about how that parent who got his kids taken by (most likely) Child Protective Services latched onto lesbians as the villain of the work he was the protagonist of.
Title: 357: Vintage Conspiracy Theories From 2002 Or Earlier
Post by: Antivehicular on July 29, 2021, 12:31:31 am
Why specifically lesbians? I wanted to hear about how that parent who got his kids taken by (most likely) Child Protective Services latched onto lesbians as the villain of the work he was the protagonist of.
Zemyla, July 28, 2021, 05:54:24 pm
My guess is that a social worker or similar in the CPS process was a woman who looked "butch" to this guy (which may just mean "dressed professionally, not much makeup" or "short hair" or "more than 5'3" tall" or God knows what), and this mutated from "I think this woman I hate might be a lesbian" to "taking away my children is a LESBIAN CONSPIRACY" in a distraught crazy creep brain.

Was anyone else deeply uncomfortable with the young daughters being described as "button cute?" It has an intensely Humbert Humbert vibe.
Title: 357: Vintage Conspiracy Theories From 2002 Or Earlier
Post by: A Meat on July 29, 2021, 02:10:12 am
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Title: 357: Vintage Conspiracy Theories From 2002 Or Earlier
Post by: Dr. Buttplug on July 29, 2021, 03:55:11 am
There are certain periods when conspiracy theories are more fun than awful. Not sure why 2002 is the cut off for this one, I imagine that a lot of 9/11 truther stuff sprung up after that and that's not very fun. Until late in Obama's second term I found a lot of sources of comedy from sites like "AboveTopSecret." Unfortunately for the last five or six years it devolved into a lot of super racist shit.

Right now it's a lot of COVID conspiracies wafting around every darkened corner of the internet making it less fertile for entertainment.
Title: 357: Vintage Conspiracy Theories From 2002 Or Earlier
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Title: 357: Vintage Conspiracy Theories From 2002 Or Earlier
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Title: 357: Vintage Conspiracy Theories From 2002 Or Earlier
Post by: junior associate faguar on July 29, 2021, 07:00:01 pm
There are certain periods when conspiracy theories are more fun than awful. Not sure why 2002 is the cut off for this one, I imagine that a lot of 9/11 truther stuff sprung up after that and that's not very fun. Until late in Obama's second term I found a lot of sources of comedy from sites like "AboveTopSecret." Unfortunately for the last five or six years it devolved into a lot of super racist shit.

Right now it's a lot of COVID conspiracies wafting around every darkened corner of the internet making it less fertile for entertainment.
Dr. Buttplug, July 29, 2021, 03:55:11 am

That’s exactly why.
Title: 357: Vintage Conspiracy Theories From 2002 Or Earlier
Post by: KingKalamari on July 29, 2021, 07:48:45 pm
Was anyone else deeply uncomfortable with the young daughters being described as "button cute?" It has an intensely Humbert Humbert vibe.
Antivehicular, July 29, 2021, 12:31:31 am

This actually draws attention to another peculiarity that seems really common amongst the green ink, raving conspiracy weirdos: They always seem to have a handful of really specific stock phrases that they repeat throughout their screeds.

The Lesbian Studies weirdo had the whole recurring bit about hearing people crying and referring to their daughters as "(x)-cute", Gene Ray had stuff like "educated stupid" and "simultaneous four day" and the like and Francis E Dek had his "Gangster computer god". It's just a weird case that these people seem to hit on particular phrases to describe whatever it is they're trying to describe and constantly repeat them verbatim.

I feel like there has to be something common with how these people's brains are wired that causes them all to independently develop the same handful of eccentricities alongside their conspiracies.
Title: 357: Vintage Conspiracy Theories From 2002 Or Earlier
Post by: Philosothelia on July 30, 2021, 04:02:28 pm
There are certain periods when conspiracy theories are more fun than awful. Not sure why 2002 is the cut off for this one, I imagine that a lot of 9/11 truther stuff sprung up after that and that's not very fun. Until late in Obama's second term I found a lot of sources of comedy from sites like "AboveTopSecret." Unfortunately for the last five or six years it devolved into a lot of super racist shit.

Right now it's a lot of COVID conspiracies wafting around every darkened corner of the internet making it less fertile for entertainment.
Dr. Buttplug, July 29, 2021, 03:55:11 am

You’re dead on the money. When we compiled this doc, we didn’t have a specific date in mind for the cutoff. We didn’t want to include anything 9/11 related and it did seem that after that point, the online conspiracy culture started to get less creative, less funny, and more mean-spirited. Another major goal behind the doc that led to everything being pre-2002 was making Lemon see old websites. Because we want to make Lemon suffer.