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North Carolina authorities arrest armed man after threats against FEMA workers
(www.washingtonpost.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2024
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What the actual fuck do these nutjobs think the FEMA workers are doing? Looting? Registering non-citizens to vote? Eating the dogs? What?
As someone who used to be one of those nutjobs many years ago; there was an extreme mistrust of FEMA, and the main conspiracy at the time was that the New World Order would someday use FEMA to begin rounding up people to be put into concentration camps, and had millions of plastic coffins waiting to be deployed for the people who resist.
We fully believed that with every fiber of our being, and if we had seen a FEMA response to a disaster, especially if communications were down, we'd probably just assume the end times were upon us and that they chose this time while we were vulnerable to strike.
Religion is a hell of a drug that can paralyze critical thinking skills beyond comprehension.
I always figured it was people that took the plot of Deus Ex too seriously.
It's almost a shame that Deus Ex has the crazy illuminati conspiracies included, because (at the risk of sounding crazy again myself) there's a surprising amount of truth to some of the things talked about in the game, and on topics that essentially no other game has ever attempted to cover. Ross' game dungeon did a fantastic video on that topic specifically (linked to the relevant part).