Do NOT feed this data to an ai unless you want to create a nazi robot supervillian
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unless you want to create a nazi robot supervillian
That's just Musk.
Probably in Grok already
Was it still glorious between 2016 and 2018 though? That sub was fun back when it was all aliens and stuff. The cutoff should probably be a little earlier.
I remember unsubscribing in the lead up to the 2016 US elections. It changed from aliens and other fringe ideas to 99% US politics.
The real conspiracy was the Russian interference with American elections via social media.
But that was too vanilla for them to get into.
It was always right wing political shit. It just became even shittier. There is nothing glorious to preserve here, except perhaps as a good example of the fascist pipeline in action.
This exactly. Around 2015 is when I really noticed it becoming astroturfed.
Conspiracy theories were supposed to be fun and not really taken seriously. Once "groups" like Q-Anon showed up, all the nutters quickly linked everything to politics and the conspiracy theories that may have had a believable hint of truth just got destroyed by complete bat-shit crazy rambling.
Who could have foreseen that a subculture based on spreading anti-scientism and unfounded paranoia, all in good fun of course, would be co-opted by right wing political propaganda for political purposes?
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Thanks for sharing