• grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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      I used to love this kind of conspiracy stuff as a kid. It was like X Files. Then I learned people took it for real 😒 and it did actual harm to real academic work

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        What’s worse is the links to white supremacy in all this shit.

        The origin of many of these ancient alien slash ancient apocalypse “theories” are 1900s Germany.

        People who were looking for a “scientific” reason why Germans were the superior race.

        The core thrust of every “ancient” whatever theory is that ancient people were idiots and had to be shown how to pile rocks into a pyramid shape or shit.

        The imaginary people who “showed” ancient brown people how to do shit are always depicted as white.

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        There is so much anti science nonsense out there right now, that stuff like this isn’t funny anymore. It’s sad and, more importantly, dangerous.

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      My fav media is archeological documentaries and my most hated media is archeological documentaries(the ones like these that have 0 content and 99% yap)

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      I thought, growing in Russia, that such things are not possible in the West. (They were and to some extent still are quite popular here, though, with Fomenko and thousand other freaks.)

      Do I look stupid?

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      I think I might have watched 1 or 2 episodes of this? I thought it was weird how he was talking about how known history is totally wrong and the vast majority of people don’t know the truth. If it’s the same thing anyways. DNF though lol