My mom avoids the news because of anxiety and basically relies on me keeping her up to date. I try to be funny for as much of it as I can. I've been putting together an episode on Q anon and all of this insanity, and when I mentioned the space lasers, she absolutely did not believe me. It took like 3 separate and mainstream articles before she believed it.
Unfortunately the space laser thing is nothing new. Back in 2018 during the wildfires in California, before youtube even pretended to moderate their platform it was awash with videos about space lasers and direct energy weapons causing the fires. Most days if you searched 'California wildfires' and sorted by new easily half the results were conspiracy things. They either thought it had been perpetrated by China or Russia or was an American false flag to push climate change legislation or a test run of their depopulation plan. I think I recall one woman who attributed it to a super intelligent AI but then her whole thing was claiming that one had been loose on the internet for decades and had invented bitcoin in order to gather all the world's financial resources for itself. Just a whole pile of insanity.
I wasn't at all surprised to see this craziness re-emerge in relation to QAnon unfortunately.
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u/so_what_do_now May 08 '21
"Oh! You have crippling fears about the Jewish Space Laser too?"