Are his followers losing their medicaid soon? This must be the carrot they’re showing to still support him.
“Medbeds” is a conspiracy that has spread extensively through far-right, QAnon circles. The idea is that the American government has access to futuristic medical pods that can cure any disease and even regrow limbs, but liberals have been hiding this information from the American public. One sect of QAnon believes the government is using a medbed to keep JFK alive.
You keep lying to the followers and the organization maintains its power as long as the lies flow and the followers keep believing in everything, no matter how untrue they may be.
I’m really starting to think many of them don’t believe the lies so much as just not having the intestinal fortitude to face the embarrassment of admitting they were wrong or easily duped. After so many of their prophecies’ expected due dates pass them by without coming to fruition, deep down they have to know the truth eventually - it’s the idea that they’ll be mocked mercilessly if they admit the truth that they’re afraid of.
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
See, the problem with all of these insane conspiracy theories is: who would want to do that? Why would anyone do that for any reason? Especially considering that, if they went public with the technology, they could make, like, a kajillion dollars.
These people watch too many James Bond movies where the villain wants to destroy the world. I’m always like, “dude, you live on the world!“
That’s easy. The people who would hide this are the very control freaks who have already achieved extreme wealth. They are exactly the type that would want to keep something that powerful strictly for their own use, because becoming the richest, most powerful person on the planet would be inevitable once they are the sole immortal being.
Yeah, but that turns into more of an Altered Carbon situation, where it’s not really a secret, it’s just so expensive only the mega rich can afford it.
Everyone in Altered Carbon gets a stack, in the book they talk about how nobody wants to live that long except the rich people, who are broken inside and no longer human
Never read the book. The show is a bit different. From what I’ve come to understand, it was not an improvement.
Still, though, I think you get my point. The powerful and rich would want to capitalize and profit from this technology. They could keep it to themselves to the elites simply by making it un affordable to anyone else. Keeping it as a secret is counterintuitive to that goal.
Are his followers losing their medicaid soon? This must be the carrot they’re showing to still support him.
So not only do the “liberals” have magical medbeds but they’ve had them since 1963 and somehow managed to keep them secret for 62 years?
It’s why former Republican presidents only die during Democrat administrations. Like Reagan '04 and HW Bush '18.
The real question is why the fuck would they be using it to keep RFKjr alive of all people.
uhh, wrong Kennedy
Similar amount of working brain tissue though.
Oh my bad it was haha. Leaving it though cause it’s still funny.
Cult like behavior
You keep lying to the followers and the organization maintains its power as long as the lies flow and the followers keep believing in everything, no matter how untrue they may be.
They will all die believing in the lies.
I’m really starting to think many of them don’t believe the lies so much as just not having the intestinal fortitude to face the embarrassment of admitting they were wrong or easily duped. After so many of their prophecies’ expected due dates pass them by without coming to fruition, deep down they have to know the truth eventually - it’s the idea that they’ll be mocked mercilessly if they admit the truth that they’re afraid of.
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
That’s the reason why it’s so dangerous.
If they die believing the lies … to them, up to the moment of their death, they would have never been wrong.
I think we’ve all experienced this to one degree or another.
It’s why I’m so baffled by people who can’t recognize it in others.
Yeah, maybe you wouldn’t let it go so far. But the process is familiar.
Why is it easier to justify another person’s irrationality as something completely foreign to your human experience rather than something familiar?
For me, it’s so much easier to say “they’re just like me if I were a little stupider, more insecure, and much more proud.”
See, the problem with all of these insane conspiracy theories is: who would want to do that? Why would anyone do that for any reason? Especially considering that, if they went public with the technology, they could make, like, a kajillion dollars.
These people watch too many James Bond movies where the villain wants to destroy the world. I’m always like, “dude, you live on the world!“
That’s easy. The people who would hide this are the very control freaks who have already achieved extreme wealth. They are exactly the type that would want to keep something that powerful strictly for their own use, because becoming the richest, most powerful person on the planet would be inevitable once they are the sole immortal being.
Yeah, but that turns into more of an Altered Carbon situation, where it’s not really a secret, it’s just so expensive only the mega rich can afford it.
Everyone in Altered Carbon gets a stack, in the book they talk about how nobody wants to live that long except the rich people, who are broken inside and no longer human
Never read the book. The show is a bit different. From what I’ve come to understand, it was not an improvement.
Still, though, I think you get my point. The powerful and rich would want to capitalize and profit from this technology. They could keep it to themselves to the elites simply by making it un affordable to anyone else. Keeping it as a secret is counterintuitive to that goal.
Sounds like they watched Stargate and thought it was a documentary.
I guess they missed the part of how it takes away one’s soul with use.