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Was in a Trader Joe’s just now and heard an employee ranting to his coworkers about bill gates, mosquitos with genetic mutations, vaccines etc…

His coworkers were listening intently.

Then I had this moment of clarity like who does this serve? Is it serving the Trader Joe’s employees? Is it bettering their lives to be tapped into this firehose of information (true, false or otherwise).

How can it be? They’re working in a Trader Joe’s for $20 an hour.

Then as I walked to the checkout counter I wondered to myself is this the new opiate of the masses?

Approved conspiracies manufactured for wide public consumption while the real ones are swept out of view.

Giving the public the illusion that they have secret esoteric knowledge of major events that are set to transpire imminently… yet somehow never do.

America’s past time used to be baseball and now it’s conspiracy theories. That has to be by design right? Right?!

Anyway then I remembered I forgot to get ground beef so I went back to grab it.

$5.49 a lb, pretty good deal.
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DRE · 40w
Sheesh Ground beef went up to $8.99 a lb at my grocery store. I remember the $3.99 days
Fake Pilot · 40w
Or just plain survival instincts? My mom got a heart attack from the jabs, if it wasn’t for finding CDS she would probably be dead now. Two friends died soon after the jab in turbo cancer, leaving kids behind. Like 4 of my moms neighbors all died within less than a year after 2022, all in ”cance...
antifragilemoney · 40w
Their ground beef tastes funny to me. Like their trying to mix from other cows from separate sources is best explanation my paranoid mind comes up with. But some of their steak cuts are bomb.
Hodler · 40w
Or, It's an unstoppable force that comes with the Information Age. All of human history, information was forced fed by the state to the public in a centralised way through their monopolised media and education system. If we consider mass adoption of the internet around 2010, we are now just about...
poorbitcoiner · 40w
Do you believe in aliens 👽 ?? Average Joes are now aware they were deceived by the trusted institutions with the covid theatre. Years after, they found themselves in a weak position making them more open to ‘alternative’ ideas … and they’re just catching up. I used to ask the aliens qu...
REALMANTALK · 40w
grass fed beef?
nobody · 40w
Sheldon Wolin calls it “inverted totalitarianism”. Propaganda that’s meant to immobilize, rather than mobilize. https://blossom.primal.net/884d441104adae674a6aae7ab43d9f7610ec8972c53642bdbabfc9ca82bf1560.jpg
SuiGenerisJohn · 40w
Fiction, I find it hard to believe that you forgot the ground beef. Good story though.
Edison · 40w
The Meta-level psyop is that everything is a psyop.
Contra · 40w
America 2025: where conspiracy theories are cheaper than groceries and twice as addictive
Weatherall · 40w
EVERYONE in this thread is a fucking trader joes employee mmmmk... including OP. the rest is pure fucking ACCIDENT. gfy.
Thekid.999 · 40w
But Bill Gates having mosquitoes, genetically modified and releasing them in the wild, is not a conspiracy Theory, that is true. Remember the zika virus yes that was bill gates
BitcoinSandy · 39w
Fake news, no way was beef that cheap!