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An amusing casualty. Newsweek states:

>David Icke, Man Behind Coronavirus 5G Conspiracy

Can this be true? Does David Icke have a following that isn't just laughing along with it? I remember his reptilian shapeshifter theory being a running joke from back when I was in high school in 2005!

Surely, someone else must have started the whole 5G conspiracy theory, right? Icke just latched on to it?




They're knowingly laughing along with the fact that he SAYS "reptiles" but MEANS "Jews".


> Does David Icke have a following that isn't just laughing along with it?

I thought the same thing about flat earth a while ago.


I like flat earth because it's relatively harmless, while also being wacky as all hell. Of course it attracts a bunch of people who are into other, actually harmful conspiracy theories too.

I miss when it was all flat earth and aliens and bigfoot, rather than white supremacy and denying the validity of a global pandemic that's actually killing people.


My friend group were joking about it before we knew it was an actual conspiracy theory. This stuff is extremely predictable - Anti-5g, Anti-vaxx, Anti-whatever people will claim that everything bad is caused by the thing they're worried about - it was inevitable for the two to get linked imo.




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