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What's your personal little conspiracy theory? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll go first: r/kitty. One of the hundred grillion cat subs back on Reddit, the culture in this one was you posted a cat picture, and the only word allowed in the title or in any comments or replies was "Kitty."

Someone is using that subreddit for covert communications, I just know it. Either on the level of "if u/PM_me_your_nostrils posts an orange cat, we attack at dawn!" or there's some steganography going on with the pictures, but that subreddit was too stupid to be as active as it was.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Some US states that keep enacting highly unpopular anti-trans, anti-woke, sexist, racist legislation are doing it in an effort to get left-aligned people to move away and not consider going there, with the goal of skewing elections in their favor.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“We oppress minorities to scare them away” is hardly a novel tactic

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

It might be one of the oldest type of conspiracy, that humans created when societies started to be a thing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

That's why your electoral college is such a mess. IMO.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

It would be more compelling if some US states weren't also openly and unabashedly engaged in active voter suppression.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How is this a conspiracy, the whole red neck stereotype of “We don’t like your kind around here” shows how this has been part of common knowledge for a long time.

I’m not saying it’s obviously true, I’m saying I thought this was a popular belief.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Most politicians seem like grifters and change positions to whatever is popular with their base or donors though. So, it does seem like this is a part of some grand-plan. I don't think many Republican politicians actually care about women's sports or who uses which restroom, yet they manufacture outrage and campaign on it. This kind of stuff was on no "normal" person's mind before media started focusing on it.