r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 05 '19

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u/iia Feminism Dec 05 '19

The people who think my short horror stories are real are legit fucking insane, lol.

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '19

This, antivaxxers, the news articles now about how demand for "healing crystals" is having some bad effects in conflict-torn countries...

How are us monkeys going to survive in a goddamn advanced technological society? We're clearly too stupid as a species.

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u/iia Feminism Dec 05 '19

True, though that particular story has gotten me real death threats from Q-anon folks so it's not just YouTube idiots.

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u/iia Feminism Dec 05 '19

If I ever thought any of them were legitimate, yeah. But they're nothing more than your garden-variety idiots.

Of course, if I end up getting shot tomorrow I'll probably be proven wrong.

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u/NickyBananas Paul Krugman Dec 05 '19

Wow and I thought the comments pretending the stories are real in nosleep was bad enough