• ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    23 hours ago

    there is so much stuff i suspect is actually a psyop that i prefer not to think about it because i’m just gonna go mad.

    the timing here makes absolute sense though, it came just before fascism started spewing their own qanon nonsense which is probably it’s own op in itself.

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      1 day ago

      Trying to sort out what’s a hoax, what’s an op, and what’s a grift can be a fool’s errand, especially given that you can kinda drift from one to the other based on how much traction you’re getting.

      I was listening to the TrueAnon episode “A People’s History of SantaCon”, which took a long and confusing walk from the Birth of Jesus Christ, through the Progressive Era labor movement, past subsequent class conflicts and derivative left-wing protest campaigns, into and out of and into Burning Man, and then into a naked money laundering scheme predicated on buying tickets to what was originally an annualized theater school stunt.

      What is SantaCon? A generational grift? A populist avante garde reaction to crass consumerism? Cover for criminal activity? For espionage? A consequence of crass consumerism gone off the rails? A stupid meme? A “mind virus”? All of the above? Idk.

      World’s a crazy place, though. That much is clear. You’ve got Santas getting hand jobs in the local drug store and nobody can explain how it happened.