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That 99.9% of the time social media "virality" is just admin from YouTube and TikTok manually choosing which of their favorite influencers are forced upon users. I'm not even talking execs here, just low-ranking code monkeys and paper pushers on a power trip.

That most Meta workers abuse their power and read users' DMs. Pretty sure this has been confirmed, though not by Zuck and the gang—just random ex-employees. I knew a guy who worked for Facebook who my gut-instinct says was cyber-stalking me. He let a piece of really personal info about me slip during a convo. It wasn't a dark secret, just something that I'd barely told anyone. I assumed that maybe my friend had told him, but she said she'd hardly spoken to him.

the CIA backs and boosts absolute nonsense conspiracy theories like flat earth, tin foil hats, and Obama being a lizard to discredit the notion of conspiracy theory entirely

I strongly believe that a lot of the internet is dead and that it's just chugging along with a digital Potemkin village of activity and relevance, with no further input from living people needed or even wanted.

Much like how "oops, the did a fucky wucky today so livelihoods must end" tea leaf reading is just taken for granted as meaning something, way too many people just trust "googling it" or whatever a Wikipedia entry says and go with whatever is then put in front of them.

The nasal swab COVID-19 tests that are still somewhat affordable give false negatives waaaaaay more than they say

• US intelligence knew (if not made possible) what was going to happen on 9/11

• Isreal intelligence knew (if not made possible) what was going to happen on 10/7

I'm of the belief that the contemporary existence of foot fetishes was the result of some shady scheme by some group (fuck knows who).

Yeah, yeah I know that there's examples erotica involving feet dating back as far back as ancient Greece, but hear me out:

In 1998, a study was carried out analysing porn magazines released between 1964 and 1994. They found that women's feet became a much larger focus when the HIV/AIDS epidemic was in the public consciousness and drew a comparison to a spike of foot fetishism in the European continent during the syphilis epidemic of the 19th century, concluding that foot fetishism is connected to fears of catching STIs.

I disagree, by focusing specifically on porn and not the larger cultural milieu, they had missed the mainstreaming of foot fetishism in the movies and TV that predates the epidemic.

MASH, held the record for the most watched episode of TV in its final episode (so big in fact, that there was a surge in toilets flushing shortly after the episode ended that did lasting damage to New York's sewer system). Now MASH is a comedy series that frequently falls back on joking about how foot obsessed its main cast is, to the point that one episode even has a subplot of Hawkeye being assigned to inspect everyone's feet and reveling in his fetish.

This is but one example, media of the time was full of the stuff. And it wasn't just you Americans who were being indoctrinated into worshipping at the altar of feet. You can find foot fetishism emerging in culture all around The West™ at the time.

Two questions, then, remain:

Who is responsible for this media blitz?

And,

Why did they do it?

My theory is that it was a collaboration between the CIA and MI5 to try to determine just how deep their propaganda can effect people by implanting a fetish into the larger public zeitgeist.

Baseball is a Masonic ceremony

https://southerncrossreview.org/53/diamond2.htm

https://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2009/03/masonbb.html?m=1

https://www.universalfreemasonry.org/en/article/baseball-esoteric-pastime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumambulation#Freemasonry

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11937/11937-h/11937-h.htm#ch21

I never thought about it that way but that actually seems plausible to me.

No, I'm not in on it, but I think the idea of some secret society running things is somewhat possible. I know this type of conspiracy theory is ultimately a reaction to global capitalism. But it's not an impossibility that these elite, capitalists have some society they join and keep secret. I think about it being similar to how at one point the monarchies that spread throughout Europe were actually all related so, despite wars and differences, they are still family. A secret society of capitalists doesn't negate the truths of capitalism, so anti-capitalist critiques are still valid, but maybe they do hang out at some spot together, talk shop, party, get wasted, and fuck each other. In a way it's harmless because the secret society itself is not the issue, their brutal capitalist form of life is the real harm, and it's very possible that they have some group to support shared interests even if it's filled with people who otherwise hate each other. It's likely not the case and I don't truly believe it but I think it's possible.

Also, there are totally massive sea monsters from legends in the ocean we haven't found yet. That's not a conspiracy theory, just straight facts.

I'm convinced the myth of getting ”enough” protein is perpetuated by the meat industry as well as the food industry in general. You still hear the ”I must eat muh meat to get muh protein” line constantly and the shelves of your local grocery store are probably packed with different ”protein” snacks, even though it's not that hard to get enough protein from plant-based sources and you probably don't need to supplement protein unless you work out like Dwayne Johnson.

The reason movie theaters switched from reel projection to digital projection was to undermine the projectors' union since digital projection can just be automated.

Popular media whether it's music or film or whatever is decided by studios and labels as opposed to organic popularity. (Obviously not all cases are true, but I feel there's a lot of cases where it is true.)

You know how cheap electronics (like a lot of Halloween decorations) specify not to use rechargeable batteries? I think that's just a ploy by Big Battery to sell more batteries.

No music becomes popular organically on tiktok. I believe that every song that becomes popular thought tiktok is either tailor-made to be easy to put in to tiktoks (like having some very widespread, easy to use message or a dramatic transition), or record label pay tiktok to push videos that include their songs. My reasons for believing this is that nearly every song that becomes popular on tiktok is garbage and no one can genuinely like that shit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aviation#

I think the "Pioneer era" of aviation history (1903-1914) was probably preceded by more flight than is widely acknowledged, perhaps because the patrons of these unrecognized early aviators had the incentive and capability to obscure any developments in aviation they had made, both for reasons related to personal economic gain (think 1800s capitalist class, protecting r&d investment in a tech not ready for market), and/or to state security (think the relations of that same class to emergent state, their proto-intelligence/security apparatuses) - basically the Reconstruction Era deep state MIC had steampunk Black Helicopters, and they were using them to do UFO-coded psyops

Consider the "Mystery airship" phenomena https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship

I especially love this particular encounter in illustrating the way this all prefigures the relationship between the UFO phenomena and the CIA (and adding on, to drive home the relevance here more broadly: "cults" -> trafficking/blackmail/recruitment -> black ops, strategy of tension, anti-communism)

One witness from Arkansas – allegedly a former state senator Harris – was supposedly told by an airship pilot (during the tensions leading up to the Spanish–American War) that the craft was bound for Cuba, to use its "Hotchkiss gun" to "kill Spaniards".[27]

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Consider Rufus Porter's failure to bring his "aeroport" airship to market in 1853 https://newenglandaviationhistory.com/rufus-porters-aeroport-airship-1853/

Consider posthumous "outsider artist" Charles Dellschau's "Sonora Aero Club" active 1850-1858, purportedly as part of a wider secret society called "NYMZA" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dellschau#Posthumous_recognition

the Confederate helicopter is right there
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/plans-little-known-confederate-helicopter

for further reading, this semi-satirical(?) piece about the "secret history" of "anti-gravity" tech has a lot of relevant details

https://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=202006037850.the_secret_of_apergy_gravitys_second_phase

and here's a fun 3 part series on the "Mystery airships" in vintage magazine Fate, with lots of details related to the above stories but which ultimately ties it all to aliens

https://archive.org/details/Fate_Magazine_278_v26n05_May_1973_/page/n83/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/Fate_Magazine_279_v26n06_June_1973_/page/n95/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/Fate_Magazine_280_v26n07_July_1973/page/n59/mode/2up

i'm convinced kurt cobain was transfem. for more on this, read the excellent piece kurt cobain will have his revenge on the straights