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Secret Alien-Human Hybrid Breeding Program Exists? Matt Gaetz Claims US Army Briefed Him of the Project (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

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[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

With this and the ufo demon thing, the conspiracy nuts must begetting too riled up and are being fed new distractions.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I think it all stems back to a rather famous call the Art Bell Coast to Coast radio show got, waaaay back in the 90s:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ee3bld4lTG0

You can probably find more info on this event than what is in this video, but this is the oldest upload of it to youtube I can find.

So yeah... right wing Christians tended to massively listen to radio talk shows more than other groups, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, etc...

So, probably a lot of them heard this, and well its been 30 years, 30 years for ... collective lore development.

Its like how just most kooky spiritual gurus can trace back their ideas to Helena Blavatsky snd Theosophy, late 1800s / early 1900s.

Which includes the Thule Society, and thus Nazis.

For a long time there has been crossover between right wing politics and zany belief structures... I think it boils down to just an authoritarian approach to knowledge.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Its like how just most kooky spiritual gurus can trace back their ideas to Helena Blavatsky snd Theosophy, late 1800s / early 1900s.

Blavatsky was a barking, swivel-eyed loon.

Which includes the Thule Society, and thus Nazis.

But another spin-off was Dartington, which nurtured a lot of good art and progressive politics along with the woo.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

True, the history of the occult is... to put it extremely mildly, quite complicated.