Nobody seems interested in discussing my deep plunge into Candace Owens’ conspiracy theorizing but I’ll continue. My jaw doesn’t hurt anymore but I still can’t smile without pain. I walk around looking grim, and I need the most bizarre forms of entertainment to avoid feeling like a total sourpuss.
Owens finds it suspicious that one of Brigitte’s daughters didn’t know the date of her dad’s funeral. When I heard it, I realized that I couldn’t name the date of my father’s funeral either. I know when he died but even though my sister and I organized the funeral, I can’t say what the date was. I was crushed by his death, and everything was a blur. That a person would be fuzzy on the details of painful events is the opposite of suspicious. It’s the most normal thing of all.
Overall, Owens’ suspicions are awakened by the fact that people’s stories of their own lives aren’t consistent and clean. This is how all conspiracists think. They are deeply anxious people with low cognitive skills. They can’t accept that there are no easy, clean narratives. Life is messy and complicated. It’s not evidence of anybody’s evil design. It’s simply the nature of human existence. But for a high-anxiety person, it’s easier to believe that there is an all-powerful human agency that controls everything. Because of there isn’t, life becomes too scary.
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Exactly, you remember the season, and some of the people there, but seldom the date.
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I remember how it felt. Some moments are seared into my brain forever. But the specific date? Nope. And this is for a funeral that was only 3 years ago.
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Candice Owens’s Brigitte Macron saga Is very funny. She’s twisting herself in knots and it pgets more and more hilarious.
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Absolutely extraordinary stupidity that, sadly, is in huge demand. I know somebody who finds Candace’s story convincing. A person with a PhD from a fancy school.
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Oh my god! You’re a man too!
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Well, there are conspiracies and then there are conspiracies. Most of them I use as a source of entertainment, but there are so many that were initially dismissed and ridiculed but were later shown to be true through declassified documents, investigations, etc. See for example MK-Ultra, COINTELPRO, Tuskegee syphilis study, NSA mass surveillance (PRISM program). The function of the term “conspiracy theory” is just to discredit one’s political opponents at this point.
“Oh, you think CIA flooded inner cities with crack to fund the Contras? You must be a conspiracy theorist just like those flat earthers!”
On a related note, my current favorite conspiracy theory is that Michelle Obama is a man with the real name Michael Obama.
The video of her alleged swinging penis in this video is amazing. I giggle like a middle schooler every time I come across it.
LOL
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I started listening to the series with a completely open mind. If there was serious evidence, I wanted to hear it.
I will now read the books of the French journalist on whose investigation Candace based the series. Maybe he has real diet that she’s not capable of retelling well.
But I absolutely agree with what you say about not rejecting any possibility before looking into it. I myself have been called a conspiracy theorist for saying things about COVID that have been completely mainstreamed since then.
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“Maybe he has real diet”
Auto-correct? Typo? or….. Freudian slip??????
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