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It's the dunk tank.

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[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 59 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This feels like the folks who wrote angry reviews on Yelp about bland food, right in the middle of COVID.

[–] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago

lol, the bad reviews for candles with “no scent”

[–] context@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago (1 children)

big calendar has played us all for fools!

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

Lousy Smarch weather

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Conspiracy theorist" mfs when you mention that maybe corporations don't have our best interests at heart capitalist-laugh

[–] Dalek@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

I dunno. Many of them seem anti corp/anti global too, from the posts I read. They're just the mirror opposite of the anti-corp left.

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He's on to something... I'm sure it has something to do with leap years...

[–] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the papist plot has robbed me of days for the last time

[–] anonochronomus@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

This is clearly the work of those most insidious papists, THE JESUITS! They began with the eleven days in 1752 and have never stopped!

[–] Dalek@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years 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.

[–] Dalek@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years 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.

[–] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They are VERY receptive to our theory if you frame it right and use the right phrasing.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

The Pontifex Maximus hasn't declared any intercalary months in decades! We're at least two months behind!

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

We must go after those manufacturing the months of the year! Surely they’re hiding something 🤔

[–] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Dalek@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Just imagine it now over K-man. "wAs He mUrDEreD..?!" "DiD hE KnOW tOo mUcH?!"

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

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[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The lizard people have a giant facility on the dark side of the moon. It's fed by negative mood energy. They specifically instructed the Biden administration to use the Alaskan weather control facility to adjust the seasons slightly to increase the overall amount of negative mood energy. This helps the lizard people to capture and consumer thetans, thus perpetuating feminism.