#conspirac

[mocha-is-not-an-alien]

ARGHH I LOVE HER <333

[creature-wizard]

Check your conspiracy theory. Does it sound anything like this?

There is an ancient global conspiracy plotting to create a one world government.

The one world government will be headed by a single leader.

The conspiracy intends to make everyone follow a religion it created.

The conspiracy is trying to destroy all true religion/spirituality.

The conspiracy deliberately stirs up conflict and starts wars.

The conspiracy deliberately does whatever it can to confuse, exhaust, and demoralize the people.

The conspiracy creates and/or manipulates art and entertainment to control and brainwash the masses.

The conspiracy uses mind-altering substances to manipulate and control people.

Progressive policies (EG, religious tolerance, equality) are part of the conspiracy.

Communism and collectivism are part of the conspiracy.

The conspiracy manipulates the economy to our detriment.

The conspiracy wants to do away with the gold standard.

The conspiracy wants to do away with the free market.

The conspiracy intends to tax the rich, which is bad because taxes are just legal theft.

Teaching people about the mistakes and atrocities committed by governments is part of the conspiracy.

The conspiracy creates new religions and spiritual movements to further their agendas.

All secret societies (EG, Freemasonry) are part of the conspiracy.

Presidents are manipulated puppets of the conspiracy.

The conspiracy manipulates anyone with a high political position.

The conspiracy grooms world leaders.

Agents of the conspiracy are planted everywhere, in all levels of society.

The conspiracy kills anyone who might expose their plans in ways that no one would suspect are actually murder.

The conspiracy follows/uses the Kabbalah.

Literally all of these were claimed in The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, an antisemitic hoax used by the Okhrana to justify violence against Russian Jews. It was used by Nazi Germany to justify the Holocaust, and today it still serves as the blueprint for most conspiracy theories - even if modern conspiracy theorists try to hide it, downplay it, or rationalize it with another, equally absurd conspiracy theory.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I know it’s an old adage that Jews are the canary in the coalmine and that antisemitism is a sign of a society turning towards bigotry, fascism, & authoritarianism, but I don’t often see people explaining how this works, so let me give you just a couple examples:

Peeling back the layers of this post about Shaq participating in the “Stand Up to All Hate” campaign, what do we have? We have a Jewish philanthropist donating to youth sports programs and organizations that provide assistance for minorities & underserved communities in Israel (including Arabs, Muslims, Palestinians, women in very conservative Jewish communities that may not otherwise have the opportunity, etc.) to enter STEM fields, who runs a series of ad campaigns to encourage people to stand up to not just antisemitism but ALL bigotry. All of this gets cast as being “pro-genocide” somehow.

In the course of casting all of this as sinister & evil, who is affected?

a high-profile Black man is slandered

giving aid to Palestinians in STEM demonized

same with aid to Orthodox Jewish women in STEM

as is giving to children’s sports programs

even THE most milquetoast “don’t sit by idly when people around you are racist, homophobic, exist, etc.” message gets smeared as sinister

Taking a closer look at the rhetoric around “contextualizing” & “explaining” rape as “resistance” in the October 7th attacks, what do we have? A structure for rapists to excuse their violence is created. Jewish & Israeli victims are disbelieved The Palestinians affected by Hamas & similar orgs’ normalization of sexual violence are erased. Palestinians are presented as if they just can’t help raping.

Who is affected:

any violence no matter how depraved against Jews & Israelis is softened & excused

the experience of Jews targeted for sexual violence are sidelined & treated as a “natural” (and thus less awful) consequence of Jews oppressing Palestinians (DARVO)

Palestinian men are subjected to the racism of being treated as rapists by default

Palestinian victims of sexual violence are erased & equated with their abusers; their well-being is further endangered as their perpetrators crimes are softened & denied

rapists in leftist spaces now have a “oh but I couldn’t help it” card in their back pocket they can whip out at any time to dodge responsibility & make leftist spaces even more dangerous for the most vulnerable people there

On top of all of this, you then also have the red yarn “logic” of conspiracism that underlies all of this. Conspiracy theories do not exist in a vacuum; there is an underlying dislogic to them that makes believers in one more likely to believe in another (and another and another). THE best predictor of whether a person will believe a conspiracy theory is that they believe another conspiracy theory.

maybe it’s that this or that is a zionist plot now. but maybe you’ll be more inclined to believe there’s something dangerous about the polio vaccine. to support your fringe position, you need to grab hold of more reasons to bolster your opposition, unspool more red yarn. maybe it causes autism. maybe it makes you gay. nevermind that you just brought polio back too, now you’re trading in bigoted conspiracy narrative about the vaccine.

Maybe it’s not that; maybe it’s something else. But this vacuum of logic demands to be filled, and more often than not it does so by sucking in more and more fringe (and more and more bigoted) conspiracy narratives.

Antisemitism is a backwards logic, a conclusion in search of a reason, that builds itself to accommodate the desire to harm Jews. And as those pathways are built, they are used for a dual purpose to hurt other groups too. They spread out further and further and get used to pop up wherever the illogic of bigotry demands to.

You see this web of dislogic being constructed in the above examples—a sort of impromptu network of tunnels and jerry-rigged offramps that let them go offroading when the normal freeways of logic don’t take them where they want to go. You want to believe Shaq is shifty or the 🟦 is a (((Zionist))) plot? Time to build the path that will get you there. You want to believe October 7th was justified, but it fundamentally opposes every one of your stated values; time to build a new way in.

The main target is still Jews, but the rest of you get the splash damage.

[asmo-cosmetics]

it just bewilders me that anyone could write a character as perfect as julian and then so obviously begin to hate him. it's so weird how much open unabashed contempt these writers have for the character their game is basically about.

i've said this before but i think that the prologue was written for a different version of the game, before the team decided to make julian the heel to asra's face and the butt of every joke. "a gift from a witch who fears commitment" was so obviously meant to be foreshadowing for a major plot point, but they just hand-wave it away in the story with like two lines of dialogue and a prayer.

"no, no, that was a red herring!!" no it wasn't. julian himself is already the red herring, making his implied backstory another red herring is the definition of a hat on a hat. asra and julian were clearly written for asra to be the bad guy in the asrian divorce, but then someone (everyone? i don't know) vetoed it because god fucking forbid we make asra look like an asshole even once.

asra is the writers' favorite and it's extremely obvious. he basically has no flaws, to the point of legit cliche. oh mc my only flaw is loving you TOO much. so even though julian is already written with a very clear archetype of "guy who hates magic because he got his heart broken by a witch" that comes through in basically everything about him, they have to paper over it in the story because we can't make asra look mean!

so they just make up for their shitty coverup writing by being like haha isn't julian silly? he was wrong about everything and he doesn't like magic hehe haha. leeches! meanwhile the bones of the characters they actually wrote are in asra too, because it's clear he's meant to have his "villain moments," he's meant to have sharper edges and even be scary, but someone decided that he has to be an uwu softboy and ruined him in the process.

as always i am not looking for a debate, i will block you.

[1000rh]

Scientism lets us convince ourselves that “the facts” do not compose an imperfect map of an incredibly complex reality but instead constitute the territory itself.

– Taylor Dotson, "The Danger of Fact-ist Politics" (2021)

[queerpyracy]

i don't see anybody talking about this but i just wanted to say i think it's cool and neat how the disinformation saint who can literally rewrite reality isn't staying within the control of her creators. good thing that doesn't reflect anything real!

[dovescheck]

while everyones returning to the scu fandom because of that animation that got dropped here is a list of my favorite animatics of pre-100days scu

good day scu fandom... more non-100days art coming ur way soon...

[dickgreyson]

one of my essays from back when i studied philosophy is being put into a good answers guide at my university<3 not one of my good ones but

[isaliquid]

So, I've seen a couple of posts now saying how, in some form, this election was illegitimate.

It was not.

I'm not saying it was fair, but that the system worked as intended. Yes, there was gerrymandering, artificial obstacles to voting, and a myriad of laws designed to make voting has difficult as possible.

Yet legitimacy has nothing to do with being democratic.

Nobody is contesting the results, not the Harris peoples, nor major media outlets.

Sure, I can't prove that there hasn't been some conspiracy with secret electors or what not. Or that whatever cabal has orchestrated Trump's Victory

But I don't need to.

Conspiracism is not a good thing. Claims need Evidence. Not even conclusive evidence, but some random emails about having your vote challenged is not acceptable. It doesn't mean it wasn't counted, just made into a provisional ballot. A very quick search (or this link) will tell you that.

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/provisional-ballots?__cf_chl_tk=jiyg1aeoccumhxfbzoisj_2obmb6sf79hzpwnpmvy8g-1731044183-1.0.1.1-kuayu8ldyjov6e8c42cp01dxghwnwvemd01cjcgjxza

^(ballot info)

You can't actually rely on your gut feelings to tell you the truth. That's how you get to vaccines thag cause autism, or flat earth, or jewish space lasers.

I know it's fucking terrifying right now. But, there are no easy answers, there never was, and never will be.

Please, don't go wasting your emotions. Spend all your love on your community, and the people in your life.

[wrestlezaynia]

Oh, it was an accident. Or was it? 👀

[holisticblight]

list of things i noticed from various vast error wiki pages

taz and vilcus share an emanant aspect (rage)

necron's aspect is hope. makes the first third of the sbb epilogue hurt a lot more :(

aumtzi's aspect is... life, for some reason? i know im as bad at classpecting as everybody else in this fandom but it just seems a little interesting to me idk.

seinru's brain tumor isnt listed on his page

^ this. (AGONIZING)

they referred to lefty getting stolen as "lususnap"ing. made me giggle

talald is 35 human years. apparently.

pozzol's page has this which i think is pretty fitting

this bulletpoint is just me being confused by the vocab to be honest. how long is a "decagrade" because it says necron and oricka have been matesprits for "decagrades" but theyre, like, 13 and 14 sweeps respectively. am i just putting human meanings onto troll words mistakenly by assuming a decagrade would be 10 sweeps/10 of something. whatever

yeah hold on sidepoint oricka's like 30 human years. thats funny

this ones just me being stupid Apparently calder is a violetblood and not a fuschiablood. even though hes barbie pink. like pinker than the fuschias in homestuck

more on blood. it doesn't list al's? isn't he a rustblood. do i have to become a wiki editor. i might

why do they list the troll from the reduplication page that never gets mentioned again and the karen carapacian but not seinru's brain tumor or mention eyepatcholon at all Am i tweaking rn. I feel like i am

[conspiracism]

i believe the backrooms exists in at least one reality, and I hope it's ours

[creature-wizard]

Friendly reminder that:

The concept of starseeds promotes ableism by minimizing or denying ADHD and autism.

The ancient astronaut hypothesis promotes spiritual colonialism and destruction of other cultures by twisting other people's mythologies and sacred texts to fit their narratives.

The reptilian alien mythology is based on conspiracy theories historically used to justify oppressing and murdering real people. Loosh/blood/adrenochrome harvesting is just repackaged blood libel.

New Age mythology is chock full of repackaged right wing conspiracy theories, the same kind pushed by QAnon.

It's also full of repackaged racist pseudoscience about genetic superiority/inferiority and the function of evolution.

Ascension to 5D was supposed to have happened back in 2012, and the prediction failed.

New Agers are recycling their predictions over and over to catch new waves of people who don't know the movement's history.

Belief in Atlantis is strongly motivated by white supremacy.

For more info, see:

Looks like it's time to talk about starseeds and the New Age movement again.

How the mythology of starseeds, indigo children, crystal children, rainbow children, etc. harms kids

New Age YouTube channel caught recycling claims of imminent "first contact" for three years

Is the spiritual person a conspiracy theorist? A list of red flags

What is spiritual eugenics?

New Age beliefs that derive from racist pseudoscience

[notaplaceofhonour]

the problem with this line of thinking, as this user has unfortunately personally demonstrated by passing around Malcolm X quotes about “(((Zionist dollarism)))” & rabid calls for the destruction of Israel with the US, is that many people ultimately fall for the former because they pass themselves off as, or slingshot off of, the latter

[zenosanalytic]

This is Supremely Grim

Plz watch it u_u u_u

[1000rh]

Conspiracism and scientism are jointly preoccupied with certainty. They enjoy a fantasy in which experts are uniquely able to escape the messiness of politics, discern the facts plain and simple, and from their godlike viewpoint turn back to politics and dispense with it. Both seduce members of open, uncertain societies with the promise of a more simply ordered world.

– Taylor Dotson, “The Danger of Fact-ist Politics” (2021)