There's a vast array of such conspiracy theories, loosely interconnected. They are immune to evidence or reason, asking if it makes sense is like making remarks

There's a vast array of such conspiracy theories, loosely interconnected. They are immune to evidence or reason, asking if it makes sense is like making remarks about plot incoherence of a porno movie. Yesterday I saw 'Wind turbines excrete chemtrails in order to change the weather' on facebook. Hundreds of comments were all in furious agreement. The more I block such posts, the more facebook seems to understand that it enrages me. The central concepts of this web of theories are: - an evil elite is trying to control us and/or profit from us - the elite is leftwing / deepstate / woke / bill gates / george soros / lizard people - they try to coerce our children to change their gender - its basically all about renewable energies, which don't work (every week there's a new reason) - or about immigrants, such as nazi theories like 'they are trying to replace us with brown people' or 'immigrates cause wildfires, not climate change' - they (the evil elite) try to scare us, just like with covid - they are trying to take money away from us and exploit us - they are changing the weather in order to control us or some other vage nefarious purpose (not clear to me why the elite would change the weather) - something something with chemtrails (this one is also really unclear for me, but it is related to changing the weather) Basically if somebody believes any one of the above, its very likely they believe some or all of the other things too. The connections are very loose and incoherent. Doesn't matter for creating a narrative. If you look carefully these concepts together are just a twisted, childish nightmare version of all that right wing conservatives hate. These are devices to incite hatred and distrust towards any of the solutions for today's problems that they want to undermine. Its like someone from a far-right think-tank took drugs and came up with all these in a bad trip, then put them on social media. Facebook? Make it as weird as possible with some spiritual air to it, you'll get the older, gullible crowd. Make it a bit more 'discovery sciency' like with some hipster music? Thats tiktok for the teenage angst. Add some Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson to it and you'll get the enraged tech bros that also come to hacker news.