Thread by @FoldableHuman

In Search Of A Flat Earth

For the record this hike is amazing, and I don't recommend it.

A commenter on YouTube asked "what's up with the bear bells? Doesn't that just announce your snackability?"

The riskiest encounter with a bear is if you surprise each other. Bears don't *hunt* humans so if a bear knows you're coming they will either leave or try to scare you off

(I'm fixing the midrolls, there's a billion of them and a lot are in deeply inappropriate spots)

Oh, everyone can join me in screaming "KIDS WATCHED THEIR TEACHER DIE ON LIVE TV YOU GHOULISH PIECE OF S***!" at the person who invented the Challenger Hoax. Let it out, it's fine.

I feel like I should explain MK Ultra, because a few people have said "but that was real."

I included it w/ the Kennedy assassination b/c there was a real program called MK Ultra, just like there's a real Area 51 and George Soros is a real person, but that's not how it's used.

The real MK Ultra was largely a waste of time and money, and the primary product was a bunch of participants with PTSD.

But the mythological version is a magic box that produced whatever secret future, or possibly explicitly supernatural, tech you want to believe the govt. has.

Depending on who you talk to MK Ultra involved or resulted in:
• mind control
• sleeper agents (Manchurian Candidate)
• the ability to induce violence/panic in crowds (plot of The Kingsman)
• mind reading
• psychokinesis
• perfect truth serum
• contact with spirits

• extrasensory perception
• remote viewing
• astral projection
• basically any psychic power you've seen in a book/movie/video game
• literal magic powers
• the plot of Rosemary's Baby

So MK Ultra was grossly unethical and some shady stuff, but the CIA doesn't have hedge wizards to make sure there's drought in Yemen.

On the plus side, odds are I've mostly just seeded your YT recommends with ads for Banff vacations.

Who wants an outtake?

Important corrections from Hamster Lord

Look who showed up.

I'm so tired.

The last day has just kind of washed over me because once you accept that these are authentically held beliefs then yesterday feels like an inevitability.

https://twitter.com/thenation/status/1347232193341513736?s=20

Decades of patriot fetishism, years of Q brain poison, and a heaping load of rationalization have convinced a whole lot of people that anything and everything is permissible because they're the vanguards of a righteous revolution.

A revolution into an authoritarian regime, because democracy is broken, as evidenced by democracy returning the "wrong" results.

Also, like, my brain has been fixated on how there's this whole "paid protestor" narrative around BLM while Q Shaman is literally a professional agitator who has spent years travelling around the US bolstering this movement as a job.