• kboy101222@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      Honestly, save yourself the brain rot.

      If you must know, right wing nut jobs have started saying this is the second coming or some such other insane shit

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      7 months ago

      A solar eclipse has been interpreted as a harbinger of doom since the dawn of time. The conspiracy theory is merely a modern evolution of this trend.

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        7 months ago

        They happen about once every 18 months, and people seem to keep their cool about it. Last time we had one in the US the biggest news was that Trump stared directly at it without eye protection.

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          7 months ago

          The pandemic, qanon, the big lie, probably a bunch of other things turned many somewhat normal people into science denialist conspiracy theorists, even people who weren’t traditional conservatives. If you are a science denialist you need something else to explain the world around you, conveniently there are many myths surrounding eclipses.

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          Man… I’m feeling better every day about leaving Reddit, and most other social media, for that matter. What the fuck is wrong with people.

        • 🐋 Color 🔱 ♀@lemm.ee
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          Don’t tell him that palm trees often bend at an angle towards each other and form an X shape. There are people who have a fear of the number 13 and it’s known as triskaidekaphobia. This person seems to have something similar but with the letter X.