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Michael Tae Sweeney@mtsw.bsky.social |
there was no halcyon past where everyone was reading academic journals and listening to university lectures to figure out the world. the same people who believe in q-anon now believed in john birch society shit 50 years ago and believed in blood libel protocols shit 100 years ago.
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Ember Bite Aegle
@emberaegle.bsky.social
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People still believe in blood libel protocols shit today, I'm sad to say. Even when the surface elements get modernized, the classics keep right on trucking alongside them.
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Keith
@kdb150.bsky.social
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Qanon and blood libel are the same shit!
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Brad Westness
@brad.westness.cc
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Yeah, we had plenty of satanic panics and Art Bell and people thinking that natural disasters are God punishing infidels way before social media. People just got them from call-in shows and church groups and tabloids and shit instead
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Reply Guy
@elandobbs.bsky.social
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This is so. But those people today are exposed *only* to those things and only in a feedback loop. There is something new and pernicious about it, but I agree it’s not some unified field theory about this moment
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italianstylemeats
@blagueplague.bsky.social
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Seth Cotlar is on bsky and he has been regularly posting archival stuff from the batshit people of the 1950's and onwards.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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the american revolution too. in massachusetts, the patriots believed in a conspiracy that the british were going to convert their province to a crown colony and seize all their weapons (in order to leave them defenseless against the indians), which the british never had any intention of doing
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paul johnson
@rhetoricpj.bsky.social
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I am constantly trying to remind myself of this
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Adina M. Yoffie
@adinayoffie.bsky.social
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Trying not to let the current blood-libel take over tbh.
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Dustin
@dustinn.bsky.social
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The halcyon days were before the printing press when our conspiratorial nonsense was more local and organic
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whet moser
@whet.bsky.social
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i go back and forth between "are things worse" and "are we better positioned to know each other's brain rot"
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Karma's Dad
@karmasdad.bsky.social
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Their grandparents were listening to Father Coughlin, Huey Long and Frances Townshend in the 1930s on the radio.
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Aaron Sofaer 🏳️⚧️
@aaronsofaer.bsky.social
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Ah but you repeat yourself (because the first two are also the blood libel) Also yeah 💯
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'viktor shtrum'
@viktorshtrum.bsky.social
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and there was no EPA
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「Ｂｅｈｅｍｏｔｈ」
@begemot.bsky.social
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If you ever look at old newspaper clippings, it was literally just the same shit as social media posts. Dumb jokes and whatnot. I'm always skeptical of people saying that computers ~fundamentally changed human society~ or whatever. It just made it more accessible. It's communication technology.
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Keith Edwards
@kedwards.bsky.social
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"Manufacturing Consent" wasn't about fucking TikTok.
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@pouncingbullfrog.bsky.social
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If anything we're closer to that halcyon vision nowadays than we ever have been, because those things are easily avilable to anyone intrested in looking
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Dan Festa
@danfesta.bsky.social
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Human history is just one long procession of handfuls of exasperated smart people looking at the world around them and saying “Whaaa? I thought we were done with that?” and the masses shouting back “Noooooope!”
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trina the tran 🏳️⚧️
@sleepertrina.bsky.social
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one thing I will add is that social media makes these groups easier to access, and makes them harder to escape. if you were some conspiracy crank in the 90s/00s you couldn't easily immerse yourself with people who have the same worldview without doing some pretty deep digging.
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Conor Conneally
@ernekid.bsky.social
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Father Coughlan was the most popular radio show in the country for years!
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wednesday
@mx0x20wednesday.bsky.social
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my mom's parents were really into the national enquirer back when they drank 👀
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rmacdca
@rmacdca.bsky.social
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Manifest destiny.
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Bass Of Pj
@bassofpj.bsky.social
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Folks were straight up getting the National Inquirer delivered to their doors, if not buying it in the grocery store check out line.
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windupez
@windupez.bsky.social
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And they still believe those things now!
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