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Effete Snob

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2. Great
Thu Aug 10, 2023, 07:41 AM
Aug 2023

Can we just leave them be until then?

I am so fucking sick of the paranoid contingent who believe they are living in the Truman Show and that there's this international apparatus comprising thousands of others who diligently construct artificial reality for them.

It seems that with any inane bullshit, you can reliably capture around 10% of the population, which I would bet without looking corresponds to the combined incidence of various mental illnesses and personality disorders.

I remember when one nutter who was a friend of the family was convinced that the movies Close Encounters was a government-sponsored production designed to "prepare us" for the big reveal. Although later, she claimed that the movie E.T. was an insidious plot to get our children used to feeling good about ugly things, because "they" were definitely planning something. First, "they" put UPC codes on EVERYTHING YOU BUY, and then "they" started requiring all those handicapped spaces in parking lots. Why was the government expecting a lot of handicapped people for some reason?

She received newsletters with all kinds of "news" that was being suppressed by the controlled media.

A never-ending buffet of total bullshit.

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