#conspiracy shit

[state-of-franklin]

dream is the friend who comisioned the prison. the redstone genius is sam. :)

Isnt dream now STUCK in that prison?? And who the hell is sam?? And if Dream and Sam are friends doesnt that mean he knows the guy that could theoretically get him out????

[poundfooolish]

The most fascinating thing to me is the people arguing that the alleged russian blogs that got shut down were probably not really propaganda because they kept going afterward, and why would they keep posting once Trump won if they were real??

And I’m like, y’all really don’t know how this game goes yeah? Why the fuck would you stop an operation like this at one election? Oh, yeah, that’s all we want to do, get Trump elected, guess we can pull up roots. Nah man. The overall game here was not so much ‘put one man in charge’ but ‘foster an ideology that promotes an inactive democracy’, because guess which one of these plans will give you more results in the long run? Trump’s only got four years, but if we can stay complacent in our lazy, ineffectual protesting, a good propaganda machine can wring decades of results out of simply encouraging the idea that REAL change comes from doing fuck all. 

“If they were so pro-Trump why did they post about black lives’ issues and police brutality?” because they aren’t trying to appeal to young white conservatives, who will help their cause regardless, they need to get their message to the people who might damage their goals, the young, idealistic activists and most importantly, the black community who, lets remember, are the backbone and lifesblood of the democratic party. (If you aren’t familiar with this discussion, google ‘black voters and the democratic party. You’ll find tons of articles.) It was never about convincing people to vote for Trump, it was about convincing people that participating in their own government was at best futile, or at worst, actively harming their social ideals. I know one of those blogs actively argued that voting itself was a racist action, because of the racist history attached to it. Stupid yes, but if you’re confused and easily lead, it almost makes sense within the stew of other racist things you’re only just learning about. 

That’s how this game is played, that’s how propaganda works. Screaming your goals directly into people’s faces isn’t generally persuasive- couching your goals within the language and ideals of the community is, and for the most part, the language of Tumblr is social justice, especially the performative kind that doesn’t take much energy to support. (Let’s be honest with ourselves on that one.)

Now, is it possible Tumblr was just trying to stamp out super liberal views by targeting their biggest spokespeople? Sure, it’s possible. Was Tumblr just trying to cover its ass so people would stop accusing it of harboring anti-democratic russian activities? Oh god yes, you think the site that refuses to shut down nazi blogs because it wants us to talk with them nicely instead would suddenly call out a bunch of suspected russian operatives without outside pressure?

I don’t doubt some legitimates got caught up in the sweep, since a lack of given evidence is always concerning, but I also don’t doubt that anti-democratic propaganda was and probably still is active on tumblr.hell. I mean. Why the fuck wouldn’t it be? Tumblr, like Twitter, has a reputation for being a political hotbed, where many young folk come and start to formulate new views of the world. What dumbass would just let that sit?

[dovahqueen4]

I actually believe this.

[poundfooolish]

“The CIA invented Counter-Culture” sounds like a reverse-psychology conspiracy planted by the CIA to convince 1960s NEETs and activists that counter-culture was actually super duper square and the REAL counter-culture movement was blindly participating in capitalism.

[poundfooolish]

The sun we know and love is fake, our REAL sun exists in a higher dimension and provides us cool light that activates and matures our higher DNA. 

[poundfooolish]

the thing that frustrates me MOST tho about conspiracists is that so many of them are deep-fried in right-wing conservative thought patterns that they’ll prop up any old bullshit nonsense about vaccines, about hypnodrugs, about reptiles and new world orders but absolutely balk at discussions of systemic oppression based on race and identity, as if those are somehow less believable than the idea that every celebrity in the world has a telepathic handler attached to them in order to maintain hypnotic control like.

mmmmm I’ve just been thinking a lot about conspiracies lately and the sharp divide between the fun, stupid conspiracies like flat earth and the incredibly sobering, scary real conspiracies like Tuskegee. You’d think the people who search for patterns and puppet masters on the back of every box of cornflakes would be able to see the actual patterns in place but NO

[poundfooolish]

I love conspiracy culture but god don’t I hate a lot of conspiracists.

“Why would a politician even THINK to say ‘conspiracy’ if there wasn’t a secret global government pulling the strings?” because that’s not the only definition of conspiracy, which has only been a dirty word since like, the 70s when it was essentially used to smear activists at the time DUMBASS

A small homegrown terror attack is still a conspiracy even if the illuminati didn’t orchestrate it

[poundfooolish]

Honestly the more I delve into the study of conspiracies and conspiracy culture the more I feel like this is a genuinely useful sort of... background knowledge to have. Like yes, most of the popular conspiracies are ridiculous and meme-worthy, but I feel like having this sort of study under my belt has granted me a sort of... better grasp on how to separate ‘this is a paranoid attempt to close the gaps between one person’s ignorance/delusion and their view of the world’ from ‘this is viably something that could be happening and we should keep mind of it.’

Because some conspiracies are real.

The deliberate poisoning of boozy american citizens during prohibition by secretly changing the distillation process of cleaning alcohol so it could no longer be used as a base for drinking alcohol. That happened. 

The Tuskegee experiments that allowed the slow death and disintegration of black american citizens in order to study syphilis, that happened. 

Sugar and cigarette lobbyists deliberately suppressing studies that showed harmful effects of their product on people, that happened. 

COINTELPRO, Operation Snow White, Operation Artichoke/MKULTRA, those all happened. Fuck, even the deliberate smear campaign that delegitimized the mere concept of a conspiracy, that happened. 

And we come up with little conspiracies all the time. Back when Trump was running, I saw people talking about how Trump ‘was maybe trying to sabotage the republican party’ ‘was actually going to do a heel-face turn and be a super democrat once he took office’ and I griped here and there about how those were fucking conspiracies but no one was able to recognize them, because our collective concept of a conspiracy is automatically aligned to ‘Reptilians hide among us and secretly rule the world through the Illuminati’, which is so powerfully stupid it obliterates our ability to honestly and openly discuss potential conspiracies as they happen, nevermind recognize in ourselves the conspiracies we make up so we can sleep at night.