chapotraphouse

the pyramids will redirect the tectonic disturbances

They reached their plague quota during Exodus.

There are so many questions I'd ask about it if I could stand speaking to him. If the last time was just an asteroid strike killing a few Siberians, was Egypt still the only safe place or was it everywhere except Siberia? How did they repair the glass dome that exists over the flat earth and where did that asteroid come from if everything in space is a hologram projected onto the dome?

140 years before 1900, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1760. Or before 1908, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1768. Both are completely banal years without anything noteworthy. Was Egypt still the only safe place to avoid the volcanic eruption in Ecuador that didn't kill anyone? It seems like this conspiracy would fall apart if you just tried to find the events for each previous year. Given the whole of the 1900s, the best he and the only video I watched on it have come up with is Tunguska or some completely undefined ash rain people experienced somewhere.

It's part of a pipeline of ur-fascist syncretism. He started out believing in the Wall Street Journal and Tea Party during the 2000/2008 crashes and could only prove his conservative politics through libertarian fantasies. Confirming the bullshit from those could only come from conspiracy theories. The proof of each of those within the wider ecosystem of right-wing conspiracy theorists could only come from confirming every other conspiracy theory. The relief from alienation and intellectual validation he got from chasing one could only be matched by following the more extreme ones that the algorithm and facebook groups were already feeding him. Flat earth shit gives him the same kind of contrarianism and scooby doo mystery that 1990s neoconservativism gave him, and if it's true then everything as/less extreme than it is true.

Every reactionary fear is just whatever is actually happening, but with a different culprit, stranger details, and more insanity.

The brain does what is necessary to stimulate itself in a vacuum

If we bribe an Egyptian government official like $4000, they'll probably give us a sizeable chunk of desert to build Communism City in.

Guy who believes the Epstein logs are real but all the pedophile shit is just a smoke screen to cover for the alien infiltration

That's literally like half the tech bros I've talked to. The worst example being one guy who is convinced Palestine secretly has nukes

He could launch a sturdy balloon with a gopro and a gps to disprove thousands of wasted hours in an afternoon. It's such a lazy conspiracy theory. Absolute teletubbies shit.

Arguing is the worst thing you could do, they don't believe this stuff because it makes sense, they believe it because it makes them feel special. If you attack it, you're attacking them.

The trick is to get them into healthier hobbies, slowly but surely move their sense of self-worth away from conspiracies and into something that makes them feel genuinely validated in their lives. Conspiracy theories are a symptom, not a cause.

I'm trying to reserve one on airbnb so I can store barrels of unvaxxed sperm. Come 2040, I'll get rich quick.

Not smoking it, but he has been a heavy adderall user for decades and mixed that with similarly chronic alcoholism. He barely leaves his bed so his life revolves around binge drinking with facebook on his laptop and Fox News on his television. Some mixture of that has made him confidently deranged.