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[โ€“] kandoh@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That used to be more innocent before those people could find one another and begin to organize on the internet

[โ€“] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah and a lot of the conspiracy theories were about things like bigfoot and UFOs. Stuff we saw on X-Files so none of it was all that serious. "I want to believe" and "the truth is out there" turned into "everything is a lie!" and "I want to burn down the government!"