• SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    8 days ago

    Personally, I think the MAGA conspiracy theorists were deliberately engineered by the elite to create anti-LGBTQ+ theories. By projecting a myriad of false conspiracy theories, it helps discredit the actual conspiracy.

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      8 days ago

      Jeffrey Epstein suggested that Moot add /pol/ to 4chan. /pol/ is literally where Qanon started. All of the “Wayfair is selling children” and “there is a video of Hillary Clinton killing a child for their ‘adenochrome’” conspiracies started there.

      /pol/ is also where the “MAPS/minor attracted person” bullshit started, as an attempt to discredit LGBT people.

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        8 days ago

        Are you sure? Seems like /pol/ was planned before they met. I’d be happy to be proven wrong though.

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            Sure, and that’s clear from the emails. That said, I heard from someone familiar with the situation, that it was well known to (some) site members that they were going to add it for some time before that.

            The timing is a going indication of causation, but it’s no proof, especially when there’s a plausible alternative.