Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

Lots about it here

https://www.desmog.com/2023/07/20/revealed-media-blitz-against-heat-pumps-funded-by-gas-lobby-group/

Are the heat pumps actually secret recording/brainwashing devices that’ll be activated the minute Starmer takes office?

They make this country more attractive to refugees from hot countries.

Perhaps one for the conspiracy thread but a person I know has basically become a barometer for irrationality. I don’t know if it’s gotten worse since COVID but it’s definitely more apparent.

No idea what media they frequent, but among the things I’ve heard them moan about:

-So many Covid and vaccine rumours.
-Defending Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, blaming NATO and Nazis who they claim are in charge of Ukraine (denying that Zelenskyy is Jewish).
-Climate change being a hoax, the world actually cooling, measurements being purposely fudged globally, fossil fuels being more eco-friendly than wind/solar/nuclear, Greta Thumberg being a hypocrite.
-Refugees arriving by boatloads and living on the dole.
-Heat pumps being useless and expensive.
-Natural gas and hydrogen being carbon neutral.
-Children in the US being forced to attend sex ed lessons run by pedos who expose their genitalia.
-Schools forced to provide litter boxes for kids identifying as cats.
-Fluoride in the water giving people cancer.
-15 minute cities being a plan to forcefully keep people within a single ‘district’.
-Inflation caused primarily by people splurging away their US Govt covid relief payments on TVs etc.

It’s like altered reality bingo. Worst part is, of course, they initially come across as pretty normal, well-travelled, financially successful homeowners.

They also absolutely love bitcoin, which doesn’t fill one with confidence.

That’s your average Daily Mail reader isn’t it?

Slightly more extreme than your average (I hope)
I'd soon think of a way to not have that person in my life any longer.

Schools forced to provide litter boxes for kids identifying as cats.

I have a colleague who told me this one.

Apparently Everyone in her town was outraged because the school had provided a litter tray for a pupil who identified as a cat.

When I questioned her she admitted perhaps not everyone was outraged, , then the school wasn’t in her town,then that the school hadn’t provided a litter tray, then that no pupil had identified as a cat…

She always has a story about Teslas killing people/ shutting down / catching fire.

I now just ask her if she has been watching GB News again.

Ironically she has a heat pump at home.

She always has a story about Teslas killing people/ shutting down / catching fire

That's weird, conspiracy nuts are usually Elon fans who vehemently deny that any Tesla has ever killed/died/burned.

They become Elon fanboys when they or a family member buys a Tesla.

she has a heat pump at home

To be fair, most people do. About three quarters of households globally have a refrigerator.

Fluoride in the water

This is a classic, been around for ages. About 15 years ago I worked with someone who would only use boiled bottled water for tea so the 'goverment' couldn't brain wash them.

The odd thing was he was pretty normal otherwise, nice fella in general.

I have a Tesla, she has the kind of Pick-Up “They” are going to take away

Ironically, added fluoride is hardly the worst thing in UK drinking water. According to ‘War on the Male’ (an interesting documentary that I’ll admit I have not properly checked out the science behind), all the industrial garbage pumped into UK water for the past couple of centuries has resulted in male testosterone levels that are dramatically different than 3 generations ago. Health issues include decreased fertility, hormonal disruption, and the average UK man’s testicles being ≈30% smaller than his relatives’ from the first half of the 20th century.

Jokes aside, shit’s fucked.

Edit- seems I got the name wrong. I’ll have to watch it again, but it may be The Disappearing Male, which talks about plastics and other prevalent manmade chemicals messing with mens’ hormones.

I'd soon think of a way to not have that person in my life any longer.

I wish it were easier to cut them loose, but it feels like I’d be turning my back on someone who needs help, not more isolation. Even their partner has now started echoing their beliefs, and I suspect it’s among the reasons their adult kids don’t talk to them. That said, I personally suspect that conspiracy theories function like a virus of the mind, and I’m wary of waiting around for one I might prove vulnerable against. I think it will end in us parting ways soon because of their beliefs.

Facebook radicalisation. Wales online has a story that the biggest anti 20mph limit groups in Wales are run by Tory activists in England some of whom have campaigned for 20 mph limits locally.

That’s just a slow news day on the express website.

Just popped in to see what was cracking everyone up.

Definitely sounds like my father in law, so yes

Is there a conspiracy theory angle I’m missing?

Any sort of progress whatsoever is, um, cultural Marxism, or some other scary buzzphrase cooked up by the intellectual giant of the right, Jordan Petersen

There's a bloke on twitter who says Trump is still president because he didn't concede defeat in 2020. Biden is dead. All the stuff of him looking presidential is filmed in California with James Woods and a green screen. Nobody lives in the White House.

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It's fully batshit. My new conspiracy theory is that we're seeing the actual end of times.

That’s happened in a lot of places already

Anyone catch this?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/24/photo-of-swansea-police-arresting-drunk-likened-to-renaissance-art

Should be good fodder for many a caption