• drspod@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    By repeating their rhetoric, even as a joke, it’s just giving oxygen to people who don’t deserve any form of publicity whatsoever. It would be better not to reference these batshit-insane conspiracy theories and then perhaps they would die more quickly.

    This story is about French/space/communications/technology. Not American/politics/racist/conspiracy. Not one genre overlap, so there’s no reason to even bring it up here. Maybe leave these jokes to the American politics threads.

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      3 months ago

      This story is about French/space/communications/technology. Not American/politics/racist/conspiracy. Not one genre overlap

      It’s about the one overlap that you missed out: frickin space lasers

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      3 months ago

      Surely any rational individual already acknowledges that subject as lunacy. The segment of people that after seeing the joke would fall victim to the conspiracy is bound to be smaller than the segment that find it mildly amusing.

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      3 months ago

      The overlap is the “space lasers” part, and it’s a joke.

      It was already made, and it’s over now, meaning you’re the one perpetuating this shift in focus, look at the responses you generated.