OrteilGenou @ OrteilGenou @lemmy.world

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The Lovemongers version of Battle of Evermore catches me the right way sometimes. I prefer the original, but their version is excellent as well

A perfect example. Early "conspiracies" like bloating the numbers by counting anyone who died "with COVID" as having died "from COVID" and the disease having come from a lab due to gain of function research appear to have been borne out, among many others, too many to count, that ended up being bullshit.

That was a perfect storm of misinformation and disinformation that is still being pored over to this day.

Another good example is 9/11. People who refused to believe that steel infrastructure could not be damaged to an extent that it would implode and collapse into its own footprint - even if it wasn't hit by a plane at all - were labeled "truthers". Whatever you believe about 9/11, it's very difficult to look at it in retrospect and not admit that something very wrong happened, and many questions are glossed over or left unanswered.

Labeling something a conspiracy immediately causes people to recoil lest they be categorized as tinfoil hat kooks, but the idea that powerful people will do horrifying things for their own interests under the thinnest cover and get away with it is not new.

That said, it is far too easy to lose grip on reality and start seeing everything as a conspiracy, so it's always advisable to hold truths lightly, and examine them frequently. Hand waving things away with "they" statements is the worst kind of intellectual laziness and doing so is a great disservice to oneself.

A theory is valid only when no proof to the contrary is known, after which the theory must be adjusted to accommodate the new findings, or discarded.

A display of and testament to your eternal commitment, so that your loved one feels the intensity of that love, and your brother in law can get hammered and try to fuck your second cousin.

Seems pretty straightforward to me

If you know you know

I mean, I presume... I don't know, so I don't know

I would confidently assume 100% of it was munitions

I certainly hope not

Peach and yes I agree but that's as far as I got. Each iteration of apple being different throws me off. Is apple a series of fractions?

No surprise. It's becoming painfully obvious that Trump's strategy is to manipulate the market to continue the upward transfer of wealth, and so when he drops the stock market with overdone tariffs and then brings it back up by suspending them, he'll inevitably have missed a few things and have to correct after the fact to make sure that the wrong people aren't suffering. All part of doing business ruining the economy to enrich a select few.

That'll show em

Me too Morty, let's get out of here

They'll call it the "Pat on the Head Bill"

Oh has the Constitution been burned in effigy yet?

This year's hot new game show! "Thaaat's FASCIST!"

Old people aren't exactly "finger on the pulse" types

Orangina with a side of fatty bacon

Always Meg, but always men?

Good, start the campaign now so that if Trump somehow crowbars in a law that allows him to run for a third term Obama can bury him

Southern Trope Racist Old Man

That kid is going places. Primarily the morgue