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Are you assuming people take this stuff seriously in the large, rather than just amusement?
by jjtheblunt 2y ago
Are you assuming people take this stuff seriously in the large, rather than just amusement?
- hayst4ck 2y agoAbsolutely, and if you don't think they do, you live in a great amount of privilege.
- jjtheblunt 2y agoWell that's a wildly wrong guess. Regardless, if you've not seen the existence of or any episode of Ancient Aliens (or Finding Bigfoot) you'll see what i'm saying: some of these spectacles are more for fun than for politics, because they can be outright funny.
- hayst4ck 1y agoIt's not funny when your relatives or elderly family members unironically consider it/believe it.
- jjtheblunt 1y agoTrue!
- tomrod 2y agoOooooh yes. Several group chats I'm on with family or kids I knew growing up are blowing up with "See, I told you!" I blame 80s AM non-religious talk radio for this one.
- squigz 2y agoEven putting aside the crazies that do passionately believe in this stuff, a lot of fairly regular people, who may not necessarily truly believe it, still think about it as a sort of "But what if it's true?" mindset, which still plays into the issue GP describes.
- esseph 2y agoI have some news for you... It's worse than you think.