People will be like, "I don't believe in antisemitic conspiracy theories!!!" and then proclaim the existence of some BS that can be traced back directly to some antisemitic conspiracy theory.

Folks seriously do not understand just how deep this shit is woven into the fabric of our culture.

the tumblr “for you” page: you seem like you would enjoy some fascists

the fact that the US government has sorta given up on ufo stuff and has just gone btw yeah aliens keep visiting our radioactive bomb sights and we dont know why literally only a few years after we tried to break into area 51 is kind of just astounding to me tbh

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The fifth game we played was Conspiracists by Stirling Joyner. Becs ran this game and they did such a good job handling our chaos. This is technically the second time I’ve played Steven Page, former lead singer of the Barenaked Ladies and was an inside reference to a lockdown session of Honey Heist the Roll Plus Heart crew played.

My step-grandpa is a hardcore conspiracy nut so every time I go to visit he has some of the sketchiest shit playing on TV and he shares with me the knowledge he’s gained.

Some gems include -

Grandpa: You know what aliens are, don’t you?

Me: What are they Grandpa

Grandpa: Fallen angels

Me: Oh

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Grandpa, watching a grainy YouTube video: See that huge golden nugget? They just found that. 

Grandma: Are you sure that’s not just a rock painted gold?

Grandpa: No it’s real 

Grandma: Okay

The 2017 Illuminati Taco Bell commercial is the funniest thing ever but mainly because people believed it. Hundreds of conspiracy nuts truly believed it was a real Illuminati message from Taco Bell

I am a firm believer that some people on this Earth were not meant to be humans. Like if we lived in a world where anthropomorphic animals were real and robots and toys and stuff could be as alive as any person? So many people would not be human. Myself included. And many of my friends, too.

I feel like we are maybe approaching a future where we can live in this world. We just have to fight for it. Fight the systems that want to keep that from you with paywalls and morals.

Fight for that dog or cat or fox or dragon or shark or bear or whatever hrt. For the plushy or rubbery or plastic or metal or wood or whatever body you should have.

Fight for the right to look how you feel and feel like you're you.

How do we fight for this? I don't know. Who do we fight? I don't know. When? Why? Where? I don't know. All I know is there's people that will try and keep that away from us and we can't let them.

my bf and i sometimes talk about a crack au where cyrus has court mandated therapy and spends his days playing truck simulator

New Age and Christian conspiracy theorists alike both insist that they aren't trying to scare you; they're trying to inform you so that you can protect and liberate yourself. Both insist that it's the other people doing the fearmongering. Not them, though. They can't be fearmongering because they're doing it out of love.

Thing is, this is literally how fearmongering works. Fearmongering isn't about scaring people for the sake of scaring them. It's the stick in a carrot-and-stick deal - "you listen to me and do x, y, and z, and then you'll be safe."

If you've done your fearmongering right, your followers don't feel afraid at all. They feel protected and powerful.

There really is no meaningful distinction between Right Wing antisemitism and Left Wing antisemitism. At least not when it comes to their effects.

Right Wing antisemitism claims Jews are subhuman, or even non-human. Both a powerful elite and a class of pathetic vermin. Weak and strong. Dangerous yet easy targets to vent off a little societal steam. The perfect scapegoats.

Left Wing antisemitism claims Jews are a privileged class not in need of protection, not deserving of consideration. The beneficiaries of white/class privilege and also constantly attempting to cosplay marginalization for special treatment or attention or sympathy.

Both see Jews as a powerful force perverting society, while also feeling contempt for individual Jewish people, Jewish culture, Judaism, etc. as useless, lazy, whiny, entitled, and moronic. Are Left Wing antisemitism and Right Wing antisemitism really all that different in their core beliefs?

Right Wing antisemitism is often more openly violent, sure. It's often more of a direct call to action to harm Jews. It's often more outwardly and proudly genocidal in scope and intent. But Left Wing antisemitism can feel more insidious I imagine, as it looks at Right Wing antisemitism and especially in these times, increasingly says "So? What do you have to say about all the dead children in Gaza?"

Right Wing antisemites want to victimize Jews and Left Wing antisemites insist Jews cannot be victims. Do you not see how this is a deadly combination? And do you not see, how maybe after decades of thinking they could trust them, Jews are more upset about Left Wing goyim being antisemitic?

And that's not even touching on the Leftist antisemites who are being openly violently antisemitic in a Right Wing way but still insist on calling themselves Leftists. I'm taling about who I think is the greater percentage. The Leftists who see verifiable undeniable rising antisemitism and simply don't care because the Jews had it coming or the Jews need to do x, y, z before they deserve your pity or your help or your anything... this is a huge problem.

The "American schools don't teach us this!" excuse is bad for a whole host of reasons, but one I often think about is that "the American public school system" isn't a very meaningful term in this context. Curricula and standards vary widely by location. I attended high school in a city that prides itself on "progressivism," and while that certainly didn't preclude my history courses from being chock-full of imperialist propaganda, I do get the sense that they were at least more... comprehensive, than those of people I know who grew up in more conservative (often rural) areas. It's also worth noting that schools are funded by property taxes, creating a fantastically uneven distribution of resources even between different schools in the same municipality.

Anyways, obviously there are myriad problems with the institution of education in America as a whole, but I can't believe that every single person using this excuse went to The Worst, Poorest, Most Conservative School In The Nation. It's OK to admit you weren't paying attention when you were 14.

"False information put out there by the military. That's all it is." okay verlaine you sound like this

Ok spoke with my consultant to make sure im not crazy so i can post this. dante is not a useless damsel in distress type they are actually crazy butch you just have to understand them better

I think Canadian centrists are starting to legitimately short circuit