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it's less important for the far right who currently holds control to do things than it is to be seen as doing things. i have an ur-conspiracy theory that every outlandish conspiracy theory is a distraction from a believable conspiracy. this does a few things:
chemtrails are, ultimately, a distraction from that what's poisoning our air and water isn't additives in jet exhaust, but instead the byproducts of burning fossil fuels like jet fuel. by addressing chemtrails without addressing fossil fuels, the ruling class performed a bit of trickery. for the people who believe in chemtrails and are worried about the poisoning of our air and water, this is now a solved problem. for the people who aren't keyed in hardly at all, this seems like a compromise between the right and the left, and like some progress is being made to protect our natural habitats.
if we want to survive our most powerful weapon is to continue speaking truth into the world
I would like to think that speaking the truth is the solution but it only works with those who actually have the capacity to think and reason. In contrast, big money has the luxury of buying and promoting the media view points that they want us to believe. Most people take the easy route that doesn't involve the work of thinking. Discerning truth is work - believing bullshit is the easy route. It has been my experience that both those on the left, and right, fall for the "chemtrail" crap.
As climate change kills folks off, some will survive by learning.
When people begin to starve or become homeless they will be forced to confront survival rather than conspiracy nonsense.
Your theory is completely provable. Remember how loud the pizza-gate nut jobs were? And now that some of the Epstein documents are starting to come out, it's all crickets.
for sure. i didn't come about this theory with zero thought haha. see also how many people will tell you the world is controlled by a secret cabal of yiddish speaking aliens manipulating lizard people billionaires and then the panama papers come out and NOTHING
I’ve peeped 8chan a couple times over the last year and the conspirators are still conspiracying re Epstein but the mainstream right has abandoned them because it’s not politically convenient to bring raging right wing antisemitism into the narrative right now. I learned a new slur every time I visited.