Conspiracy

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[–]Oyveygoyim 10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

Just as long as you never question the information given...you know aka thinking for yourself.

https://files.catbox.moe/f71wmy.jpg

[–]BISH 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Why Vaccinated people dying from COVID-19 doesn't mean the vaccines are ineffective (CNN Oct 19, 2021)

The vaccine looks a bit like that pink unicorn.

[–]zyxzevn 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

The vaccine looks a bit like that pink unicorn.

With too many vaccines you even become a pink unicorn.

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

The vaccine looks a bit like that pink unicorn.

With too many vaccines you even become a pink unicorn.

* Invisible pink unicorn.
(The paradox is that you can't see it but you know (beLIEve) it's pink.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Pink_Unicorn

[–]zyxzevn 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

The problem is that some dots are made up to create a fictional wisdom. Or caused by bias, belief or tradition. Or political nonsense, like critical theory (where everything is true).

So sometimes the unicorn is promoted as wisdom. And the real wisdom (like 2 biological sexes or natural immunity) is called a conspiracy theory.

The difference is usually clear when you look at the dots. But for that you have to go through the details,, and most people rather get lectured by someone who skips the details and confirms their belief.

[–]Evola 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

It just gets a bit annoying when you join the dots it always seems to be a sly character rubbing his hands.

[–]Anman 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Your image is moving at the speed of science.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

As jovial as this is, if data is withheld and information is censored, knowledge bases are paid to investigate a single perspective and lose funding if they don't, then you have what you might call a cover-up. You see, this graphic portrays all data as being factual, all information being unbiased and all knowledge being agreed upon by all sides. Seeing through propaganda and government bullshit is closer to wisdom than a magical unicorn.

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The last panel should be a connect-the-dots image of "a boot stamping on a human face forever".

[–]cons_nc 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"All I see are a bunch of swastikas linked together, Doc"

[–]Questionable 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Connect the dots" are meant to draw a picture. Now which one looks like a picture?

Which is the fun thing about analogies. As they are at best meaningless, and at worst, meant to deceive. As I have clearly done here.