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There Is No Finland: Birth of a Conspiracy Theory
- codetrotter 3y ago> The idea here is that where we all think Finland is is actually just ocean, and that Japan and Russia conspired to persuade the world there's a country there, to cover up the fact that Japan does unlimited fishing and whaling there with no international oversight. Today we're going to study why a tale so trivially disproven as that can actually survive to become passionately believed by a small but vocal group of conspiracy theorists. It’s not that deep, it’s just a meme.
- johndoe0815 3y agoBielefeld’s revenge…