Thursday, March 28, 2024

Disastria

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/27/1241001030/-baltimore-bridge-collapse-conspiracy-theories

“…it has become standard for any unexpected event to be run through a filter of conspiracy theories based on the personal brand of the person spreading the theory.”

Oh you betcha that’s what happens.  The conspiracies started flowing immediately in the aftermath of the Key Bridge collapse.  And like the good little mindless puppets they are the gematria clowns did their best to anticipate the bs that would appear on Fox News eventually.  Although some didn’t know into sleepy-bye time was over and had to wait to mimic talking points that had already generated steam.

The sports decoders started talking about Golden State because that’s a bridge.  The Obama is the Antichrist started Antichrist confirming.  The synchronicity crowd that doesn’t understand the simultaneous nature of true synchronicity marveled about what they knew about bridges in the past, even years ago.  Throw in some 9/11 denialism because of course it couldn’t be anything but an inside job.  What you never get is a wait and see for the official report to be made to find tune your decode.  Engagement farming based on emotion requires speed, not actual knowledge.  Better throw out the first number that comes out at least twice and see if that makes a splash.

By the way, it’s 128.

Yep.  No waiting for even the crudest most rudimentary official narrative, because they lie all the time.  Occam’s Razor denialism is a must for the Fox News viewer.  The only answer is anything EXCEPT the correct answer, and it doesn’t matter an iota to the conspiracy grifter if their brand has to settle on their personal body of work and grift magnetism produces mutually incompatible theories.   When the unexpected event is run through the filter, the right wing media machine has learned that people will ignore the incompatibility, just latching on to their favorite message.  Which although it’s not worded as such amounts to, “Fuck you, libtards.”

Actually, there have been a couple major bridge collapses earlier this year.

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/27/1241001030/-baltimore-bridge-collapse-conspiracy-theories

But China and Argentina don’t have the reality problems associated with a news report that always is, “Fuck you, American libtards”.  And actually, if you wanted to make fake predictions like predicting an earthquake everyday and always be right, there’s a bunch of bridge collapses every year.  Granted they aren’t all helped along like the three in the above link.  There are….  Wait for it….An average or expected number of…

128 per year.  

(https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3187&context=etd#:~:text=Probability%20and%20statistics%20were%20used,range%20between%2087%20and%20222.)

And it’s awfully difficult to take the gematria crowd seriously when they do rush into a magic number for speed over quality of content.  Because 128 is really only magical this week.  If gematria worked, if they were any good, they would have known what was about to happen.  But the reality is that every number from, say, 11 through the low 300’s is magical for everything every day.  Fox loves knowing there’s a ready source of dim witted victims who will get lured into having their e-mail and phone #s posted and have a target for political fundraising emails off the, “Fuck the libtards” message.  At least SOME of their content is not totally out in loony land.  If you want to donate to that, knock yourselves out.  They’re just going to keep it, and not pass legislation to, oh, fix bridges and infrastructure before it collapses.

The American addiction to convenience applies to infrastructure decay.  A bridge is expected to magically remain a bridge until the end of time.  Unmaintained, unfunded.  Like a point in the Bill of Rights that doesn’t need to be updated for how things have changed.  And by golly, cargo ships have sure changed.  Bigger is better.  More stuff in one spot.  Including toxic stuff spilled in the water when there is a problem.  It’s just lithium batteries now instead of seagulls soaked in oil on the beach.  Probably 128 seagulls will be killed by lithium poisoning.  Like putting off addressing climate change we’ve talked about making bridge upgrades in regards to massive cargo ship size, but nobody wants to pay for it.

Anytime there’s an unexpected oopsie you can count on the gematria clowns to add to the misinformation supply.

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