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Bingo! We got our experience mainlining Internet conspiracy theories decades ago. Back when you had to keep them to yourself, because the sheer majority just wouldn't understand. Fuck, you couldn't even talk about how the Internet was heavily tapped by the US government until around 2012 or so, and that was abundantly clear from multiple whistleblowers!

Normies are going through that today, but since so many are doing at once it's pop culture. And instead of only weird "Internet friends" who could understand, it's the entirety of their real life social circle, on Facebook with exposure tailored to how agreeable they are. Then they turn on the "official" traditional TV channels, which have also been pwned, further cementing the nonsense.



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