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The fringe I remember wasn’t the same as what you remember but the fringe is very heterodox by definition. If you want lefty conspiracies look up Mae Brussel an
by api 5y ago
The fringe I remember wasn’t the same as what you remember but the fringe is very heterodox by definition. If you want lefty conspiracies look up Mae Brussel and Dave Emory.
Lefty and righty conspiracy theories tend to mix freely in the wild. This soup of weirdness thing is one characteristic of the true fringe.
Maybe there was a previous era of weaponization in the 50s. The time I recall was the post Cold War 90s. The current weaponization started after 9/11 with transparent Saudi money in the “truther” movement and then went into high gear when the Trump team got into it.
- varelse 5y agoRecurrent subjects on his show were things like The Cosmic Watergate, MJ-12, and all sorts of other slashfic derived from the Roswell crash, whatever that actually was. Real-life events like the satellite feed getting cut while on the air, the government stopping an Area 51 lawsuit on the grounds that Area 51 did not officially exist, and hilariously fake found footage kept spraying lighter fluid on the fire to keep it from burning out. But, IMO, none of it was as crazy as the QAnon folk expecting JFK Jr to show up in Dealey Plaza last week. I mean I choose to believe there's life out there myself, I'm just skeptical that we're worth more than a single disappointing visit.