We need to convince kpop stans there’s a secret new BTS member who hangs out waiting to take photos with fans in the sublevels below reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
its interesting to me how self-deprecation neatly ties into making others feel bad. like. if you constantly assume that you’re stupid no matter how informed or skilled in a topic you might be, people who are a bit less learned or skilled than you might see how you, someone who is obviously skilled, talk down about yourself, and assume that if you think YOURE an idiot you must think theyre an even bigger idiot and lose confidence or find you intimidating as a result. its fucked up. and its part of why it can be so important to break out of cycles of self-hatred–not just for yourself, but for people around you
I will never let anyone who fell for it live down the fact that they believed Wayfair was trafficking kidnapped children inside of online furniture deliveries because they saw a TikTok about it. There is nothing at all distinguishing the way you think from that of anti-vaxxers or QAnon folks, you’ve simply been exposed to different conspiracies than them. If I fell for something like that I would stop everything else in my life to interrogate why I fell for it and what I could do to prevent it from happening again. Because your status quo is that you are going to vote for Trump Jr. for President in 2040
I do want to point out the Wayfair thing IS highly tied to Qanon conspiracy theories, specifically the "Trump is saving us from satanic pedophiles" one. So people spreading this were quite literally helping Qanon directly.
The reason they thought this was even more insane. It's because some of the furniture was expensive and had names that matched someone in real life.
Also, this lead to children being harassed to the point where they were afraid to leave the house, all because these children had names that matched a piece of furniture. They weren't being trafficked but had to deal with images of them spread all around the internet without their consent by deranged people who want to "save" them (and we all know how dangerous that can get when a man literally fired gunshots over Pizzagate trying to "save" children).
And! All of this is a resurgence of rhetoric around child trafficking that had its roots in the Satanic Panic. Tales about "secretive rings of child trafficking satanic cultists preying on preschools and shipping children around the country using underground networks hidden in plain sight" is a common theme.
fucking reddit loser I work with won’t shut the fuck up about “cosmic insignificance” or fuckin whatever. Acting like people’s problems don’t exists because some geeks sent a satellite to take a photo of the earth from a billion miles away. “Wowie look it’s really small, I bet the holes in your shoes don’t matter in the long run. Did you know there’s over 100 planets in the universe? And they’re all a million miles big and really far away? I guess planet earth isn’t so special after all.” Home boy I cant afford medicine
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