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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
I was out with my wife at a party last week and was talking to this really nice lady with a good professional background. Conversation was really chill, but then as the number of drinks increased our conversation about health concerns with the vaccine slid into her talking about Bill Gates and global population control, then the moon landing being fake, then the dark side of the moon being populated by another species that is being kept hidden from us. It was mind blowing to actually hear someone really believing some of what she was saying. One of the most memorable conversations I've had recently, and really makes me wonder how many other people there are around me on a daily basis who have beliefs like that.
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I just got my haircut at a seedy-looking barbershop by my new place. I love seedy barbershops, usually. Sat down, saw lots of Canadian flags. Uh oh, I thought, alarm bells going off in my head. Should I make a break for it? Still, could be a proud new Canadian: guy had a thick accent. But then I looked closer. The convoy stickers. The antivax stickers. Then I saw the 5G stickers, the chemtrail stickers, a fk Trudeau sticker and a George Soros sticker. My brain was reeling from all of this conspiracy paraphernalia, and it was too late: the bib was being fastened. I still thought about making a run for it.
To make matters worse, it was a slow, methodical haircut. Every bit of questioning on my part was met by.... "You have to do the research." I heard about 5G and dead birds in Greece, and an awful lot about "them". Every time I asked who "they" were, I got the response: "Exactly! Who are they?"
It's getting weird out there.