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The COVID lockdowns also galvanized a certain type of person to cut off their nose to spite someone else's face, which this seems a prime example of. So it's fair to point out that some people just broke and can't seem to fix themselves.
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I followed a few fitness people on instagram prior to 2020. Just normal meat heads who would post like "try this lunge if you're having tight hip flexors" or whatever. But once the gyms closed in March 2020 a few of them who never ever posted anything other than like, gym routine stuff did a speedrun to going fully insane by June of 2020. It was very funny but also scary and depressing!
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The last four to eight years have truly broken a lot of people. Since the start of 2020 I have watched and heard stories about an aunt of mine going from a standard-issue Midwestern Conservative shithead to a lunatic conspiracy theorist that barely anyone else in the extended family - even the ones with the same politics she had - can stand to speak to in person. She's not the only person I know who fell down this route. There was a guy whose family I was good friends with when I lived in SE Minnesota who went full QAnon, and he ended up losing his job, his wife, and his two kids shortly after Biden was elected. He just lost his drat mind, and he didn't even need drugs or alcohol to do it.
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Roth actually spoke on this on the last ep of The Distraction. Former pitcher Steve Carlton went full proto-Qanon after retiring, up to and including living fully off the grid and willingly giving interviews and sharing dozens of mutually conflicting conspiracy theories. This has always been a specific but rare archetype of humanity: the kook. Back in the day, getting this deep down the rabbit hole involved getting onto weird mailing lists, reading pamphlets and newsletters, and then writing to ads in the back of those mailings to get onto the really crazy poo poo. It took work, dedication, and literacy. Nowadays, its spoon fed. If you have even a slight tolerance or proclivity to what these idiots are selling, it is trivially easy to get and what you do get is highly optimized to drive you toward more. So yeah, we are broke brained from covid, biologically, pharmacologically, socially, economically. But also, we are rats in a cage with the cocaine lever in paw's reach. The rabbit hole has never been larger and now has a lubricated gradient leading in.
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Salvor_Hardin posted:Roth actually spoke on this on the last ep of The Distraction. Former pitcher Steve Carlton went full proto-Qanon after retiring, up to and including living fully off the grid and willingly giving interviews and sharing dozens of mutually conflicting conspiracy theories. And yes I know it's Alex Jones, but when you're too much of a conspiracy theorist for Alex Jones you might want to evaluate your thinking. Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 08:24 on Apr 24, 2024 |
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That sounds less like conspiracy theories and more like old fashioned racism. Racists have been defending Hitler for 90 years.
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Bird in a Blender posted:That sounds less like conspiracy theories and more like old fashioned racism. Racists have been defending Hitler for 90 years. I took a Freshman English class that had a unit on Holocaust Denial - was pretty drat heavy for 18-year-old me. The people who were peddling that poo poo on the Internet in the early 00's would never have imagined in their wildest dreams (a number of prominent ones have died) how much reach their various asinine theories about World War II could gain over the next 15+ years.
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Out of people who are willing to be a neo nazi in public much fewer of them are willing to say that the holocaust was real and good so there usually is a conspiracy element. Even without denialism you need to believe in a Jewish conspiracy to be a nazi.
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Bip Roberts posted:Out of people who are willing to be a neo nazi in public much fewer of them are willing to say that the holocaust was real and good so there usually is a conspiracy element. Even without denialism you need to believe in a Jewish conspiracy to be a nazi. "See this mass grave? [picture of mass grave of dead Jews below] Those people obviously all starved to death. Why did they starve to death? Because naturally Germany was going to give their limited wartime food resources to German citizens first, and because the Allied Powers had the gall to attack them there wasn't enough food to go around, and the people in the perfectly safe work camps had to go without. So, you need to open up your third eye and apply some critical thinking and realize that if there really was a Holocaust of six million Jews it was largely the fault of the United States military and Americans only have themselves to blame. I still think the craziest one I came across was, "Oh, all those mounds where the mass graves supposedly are? All airbrushed. War propaganda." You might wonder why Freshmen in college might be asked to study and refute stuff like that. Well, the point of the class was basically to show how people can take in incredibly detailed documentation of an event and still deny the reality that's right in front of their face.
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Bird in a Blender posted:That sounds less like conspiracy theories and more like old fashioned racism. Racists have been defending Hitler for 90 years. Goes hand in hand.
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Secret Base is starting a Patreon. https://x.com/jon_bois/status/1783149784058020127 Weird that this is a thing when they're still technically affiliated with SBNation but also glad they aren't preventing them from making some side money using the brand
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or will they let Jon Bois and a few others walk away with the brand, they do have precedent for letting niche operations take the IP (and podcast RSS feeds) with them after all.
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harperdc posted:or will they let Jon Bois and a few others walk away with the brand, they do have precedent for letting niche operations take the IP (and podcast RSS feeds) with them after all. yeah they let the bulls blog guy walk away with his name and stuff.
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The Secret Base brand is probably actually worth something, though
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morestuff posted:The Secret Base brand is probably actually worth something, though every ghastly media VC company seeing another brand they can turn into a clickfarm and license for gambling: 
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morestuff posted:The Secret Base brand is probably actually worth something, though No it's not. Jon Bois and the people who work with him are. Secret Base would be nothing without him.
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Dexo posted:No it's not.  I mean I don't disagree but I don't see Vox just being like "all yours" for this one, if only for the passive money they can make from the old content
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Vox let the Shutdown Fullcast walk away with the name and RSS feed. That’s what I was alluding to. And you’d think maybe they would learn from that experience, but search your heart if you think the corporate overlords above SB Nation even know what a Jon Bois is.
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harperdc posted:Vox let the Shutdown Fullcast walk away with the name and RSS feed. That’s what I was alluding to. Vox also didn't understand the value of the fullcast whereas I think they incredibly understand the value of bois and his creation
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Apr 25, 2024 01:45
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Spaced God posted:Vox also didn't understand the value of the fullcast whereas I think they incredibly understand the value of bois and his creation
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harperdc posted:Vox let the Shutdown Fullcast walk away with the name and RSS feed. That’s what I was alluding to. Is it possible SBN effectively sold the name to the creators?
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Yeah Vox basically has zero reason for anyone to give them benefit of the doubt. The amount of stuff they’ve just let freely walk away is incredible.
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the onion is free of the herb https://x.com/oneunderscore__/status/1783632037640835426?s=46
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Bring back Onion Sportsdome
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Vertical Lime posted:the onion is free of the herb sick?
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Mahoning posted:Bring back Onion Sportsdome Maybe! He did mention bringing back ONN.
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PotatoJudge posted:Maybe! He did mention bringing back ONN. we're pivoting back to video baby!
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longtime Columbus beat reporter Aaron Portzline, suffering from stage 5 kidney failure, is getting a kidney donated from a Blue Jackets employee 
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Gizmodo/Onion Media sold the Onion? Are they going to change the name?
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