They’re from Portland, Oregon you can’t make this shit up lol.

The Chinese text in the title translates as “brainwashed.” Top kek.

https://www.reddit.com/r/China/s/9SIkZmnr2U

  • VILenin [he/him]M
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    4 months ago

    Feel bad for the guy finding out his wife is a deranged conspiracy theorist

    • Goadstool [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      My friend was telling me about how the lady his best friend married was walking by the TV when some show was talking about the stars and she said "fake news!" My friend chuckled at first thinking it was some dumb joke but apparently after his best friend married her she became a flat-Earther who does not believe the stars are real, or at least they're not actually stars. I think about that a lot, and am terrified that anyone I associate with can suddenly become deranged in that way at any random point.

      • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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        4 months ago

        My friend's ex-wife went down the Youtube conspiracy rabbit hole and is now a Holocaust denier, thinks there are child slave colonies on Mars and stares into the sun because there's a conspiracy telling us not to do that and she's going to get to the bottom of it and unlock her super chakra. I think some people are just so thoroughly lacking in critical thinking skills that you can convince them of just about anything if you explain it in an authoritative manner.

      • Chump [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        First reaction was that she didn't believe famous people are real, which is a much more fun thing to believe

      • TheDialectic [none/use name]
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        4 months ago

        The starts aren't real but you aren't supposed to talk about it. They might hear you and get angry

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Comes with the risk of marrying a white American, vast majority of them are politically deranged and disconnected from reality

      • DayOfDoom [any, any]
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        4 months ago

        I'm wondering how many of these people were "spiritual" before 'cause that's a self-identifier that indicates a mark like these 99% of the time.

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        In my experience it's not exactly political derangement, but rather the arrogance of thinking they have the freest media and know better than anyone else.

        • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          This is the truth. Americans used to say shit like "I get my news from fox and CNN so therefore I am objective."

          brainworms combined with brainworms to create centrist

          • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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            4 months ago

            Plato was a time Traveller and his allegory of the cave was him trying to explain Americans ti ancient Greeks

            • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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              4 months ago

              At this point I'd genuinely believe that is the truth.

              Plato: "Lights come out of a box and make shapes and the people stare at it."

              Other Greeks: "like fire making shadows?"

              Plato, exhausted, going home: "yeah, sure, whatever helps you get it."

              • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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                4 months ago

                Plato: "So anyway, the people who stare at these boxes are stupid assholes but you can never convince them that they're wrong."

                Other Greeks: Frantic note taking