• Freshparsnip@lemm.ee
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    My aunt is a conspiracy nut and she was convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt Obama would declare martial law to stay in power longer. But now she would probably deny saying it. I wish she would at least be consistent in her lunacy but she takes no responsibility for anything she says

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      Years ago, I had a friend who was warning me that the National Guard was going to move to put everyone into FEMA camps at 10pm next Tuesday. I called her up, explained how it was a QAnon conspiracy theory that wasn’t going to happen, talked her down, yet she was still like “well, it can’t hurt to be careful next week”.

      I brought it up to her a few weeks later, in an attempt to get her away from her crazy QAnon-addicted Facebook friends, and she barely even remembered it.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        Conspiracy theories are like movie trailers. They’re designed to build your anticipation and get you buying in on opening night. Doesn’t matter if the movie is a flop, so long as they got your money off the first weekend of hype.