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Conspiracy loons are wild on Facebook so I know what you mean, it's so hard not to poke them occasionally. I like that the feed is so broken you just start getting the most insane things - block as many shitty pages as you can, like all the ones that post about how a guy with one leg drove a truck 19 hours a day to pay for his grandsons double cancer so that means poor people shouldn't get hand outs. Then you start getting into the real weeds, oh and block the bot farm ones, you'll recognise them they post pickles comics and no human could bring themselves to do that.
When you start seeing Indian mechanical engineering memes like 'how to design flat roof pitch common mistake ๐ฏ slope degree 13.5ยฐ โ๏ธ' you're getting close, you'll start seeing things like 'today it takes us two years to build a family home but ancient people could do it in three weeks' the comments will be full of people who know every facet of whatever conspiracies the post is somehow referencing, which is normally a lot.
'normies don't realize how much easier life was when we had sonic resonance construction tools, if they did they'd rotate the sixth tower of Thomas Tesla to reopen the Elizabethan Toltec free energy portal' and you think they're just in their own world but everyone will be replying 'yeah, robin Williams was killed because if you watch Mrs doubtfire at the same time as eyes wide shut the dialog syncs up and they warn biden will cover up the free energy machine'
Except of course they can say it in 20,000 words if they feel like it.
This might just be the best thing I've ever read. This needs to be preserved so that future intelligent life may know what our lives were like.
And yes, I live poking at them. I know it sounds wrong, but it almost feels like honking at cattle along the highway.