• Dalek [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    Whats mad about that sub is how it gatekeeps the conspiracy posts. So you have to have an arbitrary amount of karma to post there, and the mods would vet you via another sub they set up if you hadnt posted in either before.

    I know, because people would post about the UK covid response, saying how they work in care homes and hospitals. Relate their experience and the lack of Government intervention, and ask if there was some kind of thing going on to let the disease take the old and weak. Posts got removed, with mod notes saying how “this isnt a thing” or some bullshit covid/anti-vax statement (if you went back in your history to get the direct link you’d find it).

    And rather sadly they ended up being right. The recent covid enquiry has outlined this in massive detail.

    That sub is basically the sinkhole for the anti-vax - who also seem to have this propensity for UFOs and climate doom denial. Fantasies about Bigfoot, and ancient aliens, or master races of pre-history humans. They’re all fucking facebook-research morons.

    • CindyTheSkull [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      Call me conspiracy-brained but I legit think that not only are the most ridiculous “conspiracy theories” pushed and spread by the alphabet soup agencies as well as discredited so that any “conspiracy theory” can be written off as batshit no matter how plausible it may actually be, but that that sub is also ran and moderated by those same agencies, which is exactly why you get that kind of gatekeeping.

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        7 months ago

        I mean, there’s a reason the easily-debunked grassy knoll theory or multiple shooters theory are the more widespread JFK conspiracy theories, rather than the theory that Oswald shot him, but wasn’t working alone.

        Or the easily-debunked and downright absurd theory of a controlled demolition of the twin towers is the most widespread 9/11 conspiracy theory.

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        7 months ago

        That is something that has crossed my mind in the past. Trickle little bits of truth in with your NSA/MI6 falsity and people will be more likely to pick up on it though.