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Null User Object@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Right to repair’s unlikely new adversary: Scientologists

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Right to repair’s unlikely new adversary: Scientologists

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Null User Object@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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"A totally unreasonable proposal."
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    But isn’t their whole operation snake oil? Aliens crashing into a volcano and possessing humans is pretty dumb.

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      They don’t lead with that and only reveal it when you are in deep enough to not recognize the sunk cost fallacy.

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      Gotta give them points for snake oil creativity though. Their nonsense is much more entertaining than hearing “invisible sky wizard did it” as the answer to every question for millennia.

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      Wait, their thing is alien volcano ghosts?

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        Yes, a long time ago an evil alien enslaved people and crashed into a volcano on Earth where they became ghosts and possessed the primitive humans living there. South Park has a good explanation of this lunacy

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          I’ve always wondered if the “THIS IS REAL SCIENTOLOGIST BELIEF” ticker was something planned early on, or if there was a moment of taking the whole thing in and someone went “This is fuckin’ South Park. Everyone is going to think we’re being extreme. We need to clarify.”

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      Yeah. But in a world where JFK is coming back or something, a volcano cult isn’t like stand-out crazy anymore.

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      Correct, but they want to keep plausible deniability.

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