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tombertyesterday at 9:09 PM4 repliesview on HN

I've said it a million times, but I'll repeat it.

There are a lot of conspiracy nuts like Alex Jones, and the amusing thing to me is that there is a conspiracy of elites who are exerting large amounts of unelected control of the government, and who are actively working to keep you down to enrich themselves, and it's not even a secret.

We call these people "billionaires", and at this point they don't even bother hiding it. Trump had a streamlined bribery system with his stupid cryptocurrency and being in charge of a publicly traded company while in office, Musk bought his way in so he could be in charge of a new department and start defunding any organization that has ever tried to investigate him, and there are hundreds of examples.

Instead morons like Alex Jones will go on the radio and blame lizards or something, and then his listeners will take that and then start blaming Jews or Mexicans, while cheering on the actual conspiracy that's making their lives terrible.


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ikr678yesterday at 11:18 PM

The only war is class war, but those at the top spend a lot of money creating new culture wars instead to keep us busy.

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GorbachevyChaseyesterday at 11:06 PM

Be the change, my man. Try to make a podcast. I think it will eventually make sense why nobody who is a threat and also famous.

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ml-anonyesterday at 9:37 PM

Not to mention trafficking and raping children

juleiieyesterday at 9:18 PM

Some people just don’t want to hear it no matter what. Not because they are unusually stupid or inherently evil but because they feel severely hurt by the societal changes and left out. Anything that gives a hint of hope of reverting things to be the way they were is justified and no price is too high.

They can steal as long as they are our thieves.

To get through to these people you have to validate their deep fears. Not just say - shut up, you are stupid, vote for me.

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