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Nothing annoys me more than “centrist” conspiracy theorists (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like the type to unironically think Freemasons are the top dogs that control every faucet of society and every other sinister organization bows down to them. The ones who think they’re very smart and woke by saying some shit like “the media is trying to divide us…” They’ll see some socialist quote warning about bourgeois domination of the world and agree with it, but then have zero interest in actually internalizing the material reality. It’s like their entire brain is just based on random quotes and simpsons clips with red circles.

It is so intellectually lazy that I get whiplash every time I see them in the wild because I forget people like this exist. At least with right wing nut job conspiracies will have convictions whether they’re racist or antisemitic or just projection about pedophilia. Centrist conspiracy theorists’ just post some vague “I told you so” in the comments of YouTube and Facebook.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Like the type to unironically think Freemasons are the top dogs that control every faucet of society

The reality here is more insidious. The Freemasons are essentially a secret society for the Petite Bourgeois, they can't pull off any actual CIA Deep-State shit, but they're a great way for guys who own two car dealerships and several rental properties to networks and hatch their own little locally grown Psy-Ops. Still probably a decent amount of drug smuggling and sexual abuse going on but on a much more artisanal scale.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

This is true, but Freemasonry also exists as a higher cult than that - lots of US presidents have been members (partly because elites join every exclusive club going for networking), and it was/is rife in the British Empire at all levels, just that the higher levels like with every cult exploit the lesser, while allowing the lesser to exploit outsiders.

In religious terms, Freemasonry is just protestantism mixed with old Judaism - partly why its disliked by 'popular' christianity, being suspected of a return to what the 'early church' had an issue with.