• BossDj@lemm.eeEnglish
    118·
    10 days ago

    The part I don’t get is that there are so many cool, real conspiracies out there to be explored

    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      9 days ago

      This is so Carl Sagan.

      And so we got to talking. But not, as it turned out, about science. He wanted to talk about frozen extraterrestrials languishing in an Air Force base near San Antonio, “channeling” (a way to hear what’s on the minds of dead people—not much, it turns out), crystals, the prophecies of Nostradamus, astrology, the shroud of Turin … He introduced each portentous subject with buoyant enthusiasm. Each time I had to disappoint him: “The evidence is crummy,” I kept saying. “There’s a much simpler explanation.”

      …

      And yet there’s so much in real science that’s equally exciting, more mysterious, a greater intellectual challenge—as well as being a lot closer to the truth. Did he know about the molecular building blocks of life sitting out there in the cold, tenuous gas between the stars? Had he heard of the footprints of our ancestors found in 4-million-year-old volcanic ash? What about the raising of the Himalayas when India went crashing into Asia? Or how viruses, built like hypodermic syringes, slip their DNA past the host organism’s defenses and subvert the reproductive machinery of cells; or the radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence; or the newly discovered ancient civilization of Ebla that advertised the virtues of Ebla beer? No, he hadn’t heard. Nor did he know, even vaguely, about quantum indeterminacy, and he recognized DNA only as three frequently linked capital letters.

      • Revan343@lemmy.caEnglish
        10·
        9 days ago

        And that’s just science; think of all the actual conspiracies that actually happened. MKULTRA is perfect conspiracy theorist material and actually real, but that second part means it’s boring

        • basmati@lemmus.orgEnglish
          71·
          9 days ago

          Mkultra is almost always used to justify all conspiracies, as if the government can do that, there is no limit to what they can do. That and the tuskegee experiments, the main reason black antivaxxers are likely to hold their beliefs.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      321·
      9 days ago

      But how are you going to feel smarter than everyone else, if everyone gets convinced by your conspiracy theory?

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      10 days ago

      Any time you have information about the market that everyone else doesn’t have, that should be a money making opportunity.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    31·
    9 days ago

    I remember when they were sent by god to punish the gays, but now I find out it was sneaky Kamala all along!

  • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
    50·
    9 days ago

    Funny how they never get the message that maybe GOD IS PISSED at them.

    Nooo it’s all ‘this is because of the gays!!’ The fabulous gays of homophobe town is why it got flattened? Sure kevin

  • Denvil@lemmy.oneEnglish
    701·
    10 days ago

    Thank god I can’t see that that says bullshit… oh wait

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      10 days ago

      Oh fuck you just corrupted the fuck out of me. What in actual fuck is wrong with you, writing that on the Internet where people can read it?

      • Denvil@lemmy.oneEnglish
        15·
        9 days ago

        Well damn, terribly sorry, I’ve been a real fucking ass hat towards you all, allow me to apologize like the bastard I am

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      121·
      9 days ago

      I really (don’t) enjoy that this is what needs censoring about this post, to get popular social media to spread it around.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    351·
    9 days ago

    This is an actual term apparently in common circulation, though homophobia wasn’t even its original intent: https://glaad.org/globohomo-definition-meaning-anti-lgbt-online-hate/

    Emerging in 2016, this multi-purpose, right-wing troll invention combines homophobia and anti-Semitism. Researcher David Futrelle’s well-known misogyny tracking site We Hunted The Mammoth offers this summary: “Ostensibly, ‘globohomo’ is short for ‘global homogenization,’ an alleged vast conspiracy to destroy ‘traditional’ culture and values and replace them with a sort of global (naturally) corporate uniculture. But it’s rarely used in this way, at least not exactly. For those who’ve seized upon the term, ‘globo’ means ‘globalist’ and therefore Jews; while ‘homo’ (the suffix) means, well, ‘homo’ (the slur). (Some, evidently worried that ‘globohomo’ isn’t gay-sounding enough, add ‘gayplex’ to it — ‘globohomogayplex.’).” According to the Online Hate Research and Education Project, white nationalists and other hate movements use “globohomo” to allege the existence of a global plot to promote the so-called ‘‘LGBTQ+ agenda,” a similarly minded conspiracy theory (promoted by certain sectors of the Christian religious right) alleging that LGBTQ people aim to surpass the rights of other groups and “groom youth into identifying as part of the community.”

    • kralk@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      9 days ago

      I thought globohomo was an alternate name for corporate Memphis?

      • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        and how do you think they arrived there? They think large corporations that have to toe the line with HR are using it.

        Corporations : globo

        HR : homo.

        NB : I do not agree with these views, I merely understand what the views are and I am trying to educate mr kralk

  • Cadenza@lemmy.worldEnglish
    311·
    9 days ago

    How can I apply to become a globohomo? I mean I’m a straight beta male but still, I would love to join the movement.

    • 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      9 days ago

      I hope they bring enough body oil this time. Last year the budget was blown on chemtrails and ketamine. I was chafing SO bad during the gay satanic orgy