Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The “funny” thing is that anybody thinking that a mere 5 years ago would have been deemed a conspiracy nutter.

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  • bampop@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s not by accident. Every right wing conspiracy is a ridiculous pastiche of the shit they are really getting up to, or intend to in the near future. No doubt Pizzagate was invented to make people incredulous about claims of secret cabals of kid rapists in elite circles. Every accusation a confession.

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Every accusation [is] a confession

      That is indeed something which has been very visibly and very often proven, again and again and again, in the last couple of years.

      I reckon it was always so, but we just forgot it during the period after WWII and the ressurging of the far-right.

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    • s23b@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I bet they are making the frogs gay, too.

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      • bampop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well… yes? AFAIK that was Alex Jones talking about endocrine disruption caused by atrazine in herbicides. Frogs turning gay seems a silly thing to focus on, but in principal the health effects of herbicides are a valid concern. By turning it into a joke, intentionally or not, he was doing his bit to invalidate serious concerns on the issue.

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    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To me the difference is always, why do you believe this is true. A lot of the bullshit stuff is 1. It’s possible 2. They don’t like the person it’s about, and that’s it.

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