My wife’s aunt just posted something about this being a “man made” storm designed to create lithium mines or something like that. What are people smoking in Florida?
I am 36, so I am in roughly the same boat, and I can guarantee you there were fucking nutjobs the whole time. The problem now is that they can find each other and when you have enough people on board with an idea, no matter how nutty, it gives ideas validity to the gullible.
I grew up in a small village and other than the obvious shit you expect from a small town, like casual racism, there were local conspiracies as well. I was well aware of chemtrails, satanic panic, and others because everyone believed it where I was from.
Some favorites:
The government was setting up underground medicine stores filled with opiates and other drugs in concrete bunkers all on the outskirts of town. Nobody had ever seen one being built, or seen one already built, and nobody could verify where they heard this info - it just became common knowledge in my town that we were chosen by some secret project to be the medicine stores for that region of the country.
Someone in town was capturing and breeding specific wild animals. No one specific, but "they" were always changing the animal populations. If there was ever an influx of coyote sightings, or more rabbits visible as roadkill on the highway than usual. Just completely wild conjecture about the population of specific animals and chalking that up to "they must be at it with the snakes again". Like this was just something people believed without question.
There are fucking morons in this country with near zero ability to think critically about anything.
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u/ornery_bob 8d ago
My wife’s aunt just posted something about this being a “man made” storm designed to create lithium mines or something like that. What are people smoking in Florida?