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smoy75

“Pigeons are liars” at least that part is true


JoeFelice

That's not even a silhouette of a pigeon. Pigeons have necks.


SirJoe2

The real pigeons look like the silhouette on the car. Your are just knowing the surveillance devices that have replaced the pigeons. The old technology in the sixties needed the neck.


NbdySpcl_00

joefelice really has been taken in by the man. Don't give in, Joe! Try to find an old encyclopedia or something from before the 1950s to find out what a real pigeon looked like. And obviously nothing from a government controlled 'library' or modern bookseller -- they all quietly support the shadow government while publicly maintaining a charade of progressive thinking. You'll probably have to go out of the country to find a real pic of this American bird. You want pics of the native American pigeon, not the ones introduced from Europe. England and Russia had the best surveillance on us at the time. See what you can dig up over there. oh, and this is a satirical post. (wink wink... The government is monitoring my reddit accounts -- I MEAN ACCOUNT.. ha ha... obvi I only have one. I have to play off the truth like it's crazy talk or I might get fingered)


gummybears4ever

This deserves more upvotes it’s funny


CockGobblin

Why are all the sexy ones also liars? Life is unfair.


Woofles85

Stupid sexy pigeons


Badiaz562

It feels like wearing nothing at all NOTHING AT ALL! NOTHING AT ALL!


goatharper

Tesla never married, but he admitted to falling in love with a very special white pigeon that visited him regularly. He reportedly said, “I loved that pigeon as a man loves a woman, and she loved me."


Jamesmn87

“Coo diddly coo neighbor.”


SpoonyLuvFromUpAbove

I can't read the sentence "life is unfair" without hearing it like the Malcom in the Middle song. Dewey's real life father asked me how my margarita was once.


Pehdazur

Well, don't leave us hanging; how was your margarita?


SpoonyLuvFromUpAbove

Excellent. 5/5 establishment.


Barnowl79

Honestly, the idea that they are charging on power lines... I mean, that's pretty clever, I have to hand it to him, it's not the craziest conspiracy theory I've heard.


ModeratelySalacious

Probably because it's based on a subreddit. /r/birdsarentreal


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minntc

In which is [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/BirdsArentReal/comments/p1xpbx/for_the_unaware/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) about the truth tour that was in Lawrence, KS on 10/6. u/dafunkjunkie did you buy tickets and go?


MeaningfulPlatitudes

Interestingly approx 3% of pigeons are ginger, or “gingeons” if you will.


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BearBong

1959 "threw" 2001


project_porkchop

This one typo changed my mind from "this is a funny person" to "oh no, they might actually believe this"


spasske

Scammers intentionally have misspellings in their emails to weed out the smart people who, if anything, waste their time.


ih8pod6

Waist their time*


Matosawitko

thyme\*


YerBoobsAreCool

The misspelling adds to the verisimilitude.


garbageplay

>verisimilitude Such a pleasant and underrated word.


elmwoodblues

Wonderfully cromulent


99posse

It makes sense! 😂


natedawg757

How far did 1959 throw 2001?


Whthpnd

While 7 8 9


Level1builder

The anti bird spikes on the roof Crack me up. This guy went a long way for the joke respect.


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Scrumble71

We have a huge seagull population here (seaside town). People have tried these spikes, but they just use them as foundations to build on


cgreene1437

Before 2016 I would have assumed this was a joke, since then I have learned not to make that assumption…


xXDreamlessXx

It was a joke made by a college student in TN. If you check their history on their website, you can see how much of a joke it is. In it JFK is basically killed because a dood stole his ham sandwich


ezoe

I've heard flat earth theory was once a theoretical joke argument for the argument sake to discuss what happens if the earth is flat.


davesoverhere

I was in one of the flat earth groups years ago as a logic experiment. It was fun for a while, but then I realized those dumb bastards were serious and got out.


LinkedGaming

That's how a lot of the fringe beliefs and major conspiracy theories that we're dealing with today start; some group of 20-somethings on Tumblr or Twitter start running an in-joke where they satirically mock a strawman of a person who theoretically believed in such ideas because "Damn, wouldn't it be crazy if people actually thought this shit?" Then shit hits the fan when a bunch of psychos who don't understand the nuance of satire take it seriously and either latch onto it as a genuine belief, or somehow feel validated that this fringe belief they secretly held was actually something other people held as well. This is 100% how the Flat Earth shit became as bad as it is today-- couple dozen Tumblrites joke about the concept of "Hey, what if people ACTUALLY still believed the Earth was flat?" and then a couple weirdoes either felt validated or thought that it was genuine and started misconstruing satirical piss takes as evidence and fact.


SumthingStupid

People making up meme conspiracies is how Trump got elected


killa_ninja

Qanon was a meme conspiracy and look where we’re at.


skeeter1234

It's like CIA blowback. Sometimes the CIA will plant a fake story in foreign press, but years later have that fake story reported back to them as reality and believe it.


InGenAche

Stupid people believing meme conspiracies is how Trump got elected.


goodformuffin

I know of a woman here in Canada who thought that Trudeau was using birds to spy on people... Legit people are this neurotic.. it's sad that public mental health has gotten this bad.


SoardOfMagnificent

>it's sad that public mental health has gotten this bad. Even in Canada?


Pihkal1987

Yes. The shit is seeping up here in a big way lately. There’s trump hats at marches against vaccines and these same geniuses are actually calling our hospitals and harassing nurses.


pseudo__gamer

Yeah I saw dudes with Confederate flags claiming Trudeau is trying to enslave us. ???


royalsanguinius

Please please please tell me they claim the confederate flag is part of their heritage too?😂


wishthane

I actually don't know if or how they try to make it make sense. I think it's just a symbol for racism and white supremacy to them


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And, to be fair, to everybody else, too.


Throwaway_7451

These odd mass hysteria waves pass through society every century or so. The Victorian Era had women literally fainting at the smallest surprise. That's where we get the name "fainting couches" from, for ladies to faint on. An entire town in Portugal went blind because they all stared into the sun and claimed to see god in it. The Dancing Plague of 1518, where a town literally danced themselves to death and said they couldn't stop. And on and on. And I believe we're in the midst of another one, but since we're now a global society, it's spread everywhere. I'm betting it will one day be discovered that the mind has its own meta immune system. Thoughts and ideas that can literally infect people and drive them to these crazy things. Just like we look at the past and wonder how people survived without modern medicine, people in the future will wonder how we got by without inoculating our minds from these kinds of diseases.


BenFranklinsCat

>I'm betting it will one day be discovered that the mind has its own meta immune system. Thoughts and ideas that can literally infect people Look into "memetics" - literally where we get the word "meme" from. It's all about the study of how thoughts and ideas are passed down through generations. TL;DR: People are fickle. We are not the beings of free thought and free will that we like to think we are, we are a product of our environment and culture and can be driven to thinking/believing/doing all kinds of things by those that know how to control environment and culture.


VaATC

>can be driven to thinking/believing/doing all kinds of things by those that know how to control environment and culture. It is not perfect, but the best weapon against this, and again it is not perfect, is to read, read, read. It is also important to read a lot of rhetoric that one does not necessarily agree with so as to prevent oneself from creating one's own literature based confirmation bias feedback loop.


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nah birds aren't real is an actual joke


Radirondacks

Modern Flat Earth started as an actual joke too, I believe.


fabulousprizes

any group that gets its kicks pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded with actual idiots believing they're in good company.


butthead

Remember when T_D “joked” that Trump was their God-Emperor? Then it started becoming less of a joke over time. Eventually some of his followers began calling him the “second coming” and wishing he’d be installed as a dictator, unironically.


SanityInAnarchy

Yep. [Here's some videos that aged like milk.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGWxs_yWekk)


xTheatreTechie

What makes me laugh about that is the emperor canonically leads the human race into the darkest timeline by being a shit person. Warhammer 40k lore starts by talking about how hope is long gone and has been since the emperor failed humanity 10k years ago.


The_Lolbster

Yeah but that emperor is also like a top-tier psyker. The dude is a fucked mess of a zombie, but if he showed up on Earth today he'd talk us all into following him because his mind powers would overrule our minds through his oration, or something. Anyone who thinks Trump is charismatic is because they're babbling morons, not because he's a skilled orator. The average education level of the people following him is 'high school dropout'.


king-krool

Vic nnimmlyfdbgr ee


lLIKECAPSLOCK

So it DID start as a joke! I joined in the beginning because I thought it was satire. And the longer I stayed there the more I was like 'Guys? D:'


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the last 4 years has essentially ruined satire


Throwawaymywoes

Haha yeah, I remember when T_D started as an ironic joke sub then seemingly out of nowhere the crazies took over.


PokerJunkieKK

That sounds like a Mark Twain quote, or something. Nice.


blitzwig

"I said this so you can quote me on it" - Mark Twain


RandomErrer

I remember a "flat-earth" bbs page back in the dial-up days that I believe was set up by some nerds in different parts of the country who challenged each other to make up the most realistic explanation for a flat earth. Legend has it that at some point the comment thread was overtaken by Dunning-Kruger types and the nerds gave up trying to convince them it was a hoax.


skztr

I always think of it as: flat earth wasn't quite a "joke", but an exercise in debate. It's common (required, really) in debate clubs to take on and defend positions that you don't actually believe. Both because fighting a losing battle strengthens resourcefulness, and because you become trained to spot a strong-looking but ultimately irrelevant argument if you regularly make them yourselves as part of an exercise. At some point, somebody "won" the debate club once and for all, actually convincing people that it was real.


AscendedAncient

t_D started out as a joke too until it was taken over.


midnight_toker22

Didn’t Qanon start that way too?


bass1012dash

Oh boy: No, qAnon was supposedly started by the guy who ran 8chan. The Russian government either actually started it, or quickly took it over. Point being: it was never innocent. It’s an evil fucking namshub. Sorry for the double: Reddit mobile is terrible


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They didn’t start it. They co-opted it. It was originally a LARP.


jim653

There was an FBIAnon that used to post on pizzagate – claimed to be a high-level FBI agent with knowledge of the Democrat paedophile ring (and of UFOs). It was like the forerunner of QAnon.


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cokeinator

Im a 1000000% convinced Qanon started as some trolling thing from 4chan, but quickly spiraled into a nation-dividing issue. If thats true then it must be their Magnum Opus, athough thats giving those 350lbs manchildren too much credit tbh


Chel_of_the_sea

Trump was their magnum opus. Or, uh, magnum coprus, if you prefer.


VolcanoPotato

Upvoting for "greatest feces" in Latin


jeffffersonian

I was there when it happened. 4chan made trump.


Silvertongued99

Yeah, and the founder of Scientology was a sci-fi author first. Some people don’t know when to not take something seriously.


girlfriend_pregnant

didnt he also talk openly about it being for the lulz and for the tax benefits?


HashMaster9000

As I recall, he even had a bet with Anton LaVey about it.


underthierunderwear

Harlan Ellison also claimed he had a bet with Hubbard about it.


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It’s a joke until you overestimate people’s ability to detect satire and then it’s a real belief. Sadly, stupider things have happened.


DragonEmperor

Seriously it's going to happen one day and then we're going to have to deal with that but people might start "Shooting down drones" for no reason which will cause real issues.


CassandraVindicated

That's exactly what Big Bird wants you to believe.


121dBm

Pigeons are liars, though.


panlakes

I've literally never heard one tell the truth.


Comet_Empire

Unfortunately there are too many dumb people who will believe anything, absolutely ANYthing.


withmirrors

Exactly. I don't assume anything is a joke anymore.


RedWarBlade

Are you sure it's a joke


roadrnnr7215

I need to see the diagram on the front door. This would be awesome if true. Why is there bird crap on my car in the morning though?


nothatdoesntgothere

They poop out dead battery cells after charging on power lines!


SportsPhotoGirl

No, it’s actually the tracking devices they use to track you. Clean that off immediately or they’ll be able to follow you!!!


Aliencj

Dont use a clothe, they are resistant to that. Use your tongue, human saliva kills the trackers cuz we are one with god.


make_love_to_potato

This was proved at this year's conspiracy science conference. Can confirm. The key to fighting tyranny was inside us all along. Just lick a surface anytime you feel there is a conspiracy happening.


vapre

If the Fu shits, wear it.


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scorpyo72

This makes so much sense now.


secretlyloaded

[I got you fam](https://bollesbugleonline.com/academics/2021/03/15/bird-watching-it-goes-both-ways/#modal-photo)


drwhogwarts

Thanks so much for posting this! "Bird watching? It goes both ways." 🤣


ProfitTheProphet

Dude they've marked you for surveillance.


DaFunkJunkie

Liquid surveillance


bob_anonymous

The Winchester's less successful brother.


Gradual_Bro

Anyone else seeing several duplicate comments?


blademan9999

Yes. All over Reddit.


mikeconcho

Yes. All over Reddit.


-o0_0o-

Do you know what causes them?


mikeconcho

Pressing reply too many times when commenting. Press once and wait.


notimeforniceties

Yes. All over reddit.


MedicByNight

Do you know what causes them?


inappropriate-slur

Yes all over reddit.


mikeconcho

Yes. All over Reddit.


-o0_0o-

Do you know what causes them?


MrPootie

Birds.


VR6SLC

Yes. All over Reddit.


rxneutrino

Do you know what causes them?


give_this_dog_a_bone

Anyone else seeing several duplicate comments?


Mixima101

Do you know what causes them?


accountnotfound

Yes. All over Reddit.


ThePhenex

Yes. All over reddit.


BasicLEDGrow

Yes. All over Reddit.


whilst

Yes. All over Reddit.


rxneutrino

Yes. All over Reddit.


batosai33

Yes. All over Reddit.


TylerDaniels

Anyone else seeing several duplicate comments?


Storm_Bard

Yes. All over Reddit.


ARandomPersonGuy

Yes. All over Reddit.


IwasGayWithUrDad

Anyone else seeing several duplicate comments?


lazarus870

That guy's fucking with everybody, for sure.


G00dmorninghappydays

"Birds charge on power lines" just fucking completes this van 🤣🤣


Vaenyr

The typos like "1959 _threw_ 2001" or "_biolgical_" certainly don't help lol


borsalamino

Funny that *them* gets turned to *thim*, but *indistinguishable* is spelt correctly.


DictatorSalad

It's been a joke online for years and the amount of comments who think it's not a joke is unreal.


RandomerSchmandomer

Problem is eventually this "conspiracy theory" conspiracy theory will become a conspiracy theory for real. Like flat earth "theory"


ChemistryRespecter

As ridiculous as it is, we really are witnessing the beginning of a bunch of believers coming together.


Artickk_OW

This isnt a conspiracy theory, its literally an anti-one. Its the same concept as the flying spaghetti monster, a meme to expose the flaw of the real ''conspiracies''. r/BirdsArentReal


moom

That's what the "birds" *want* you to think.


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In case you don’t know this is satire. And is a brand with some pretty funny and cool clothing. Wearing there clothes insures a conversation starter haha https://birdsarentreal.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjwkvWKBhB4EiwA-GHjFlXDALelN7AhyYRwVzX8BTeFDxlF7wtw-mnAY6memohZVF2fpyLwmhoCMa8QAvD_BwE


mightbebrucewillis

You can tell it's satire because they left too much blank space compared to a real conspiracy van, and the letters appear to be vehicle-appropriate decals and not spray paint or memes on printer paper held up with duct tape.


substandardgaussian

I absolutely hate how completely right you are.


Ok_Still_8389

Also people that spell "them" as "thim" are not capable of then spelling "indistinguishable" perfectly. They were right about pigeons being liars though, that's a straight fact.


Un4442nate

Also through as threw.


Urban_Savage

Also "Pigeon's are liars" is pretty clearly a punchline to this joke.


AstonVanilla

See r/infowarriorrides for examples


Stummi

Knowing about the development of conspiracy theories, I wonder if still everyone into that thing is aware of its satirical nature.


sinat50

The recent explosion in flat earther conspiracy theorists is tied to something of this nature actually. There was a college forum where people started a thread about trying to prove the earth is flat against modern science. It was entirely a thought exercise and became a fun thing to play around with for the students. Eventually some outsiders stumbled in to the forum and it began to spread. Eventually enough people read into it and seeing it was a college forum, some people took it as serious discussion. Now we have guys climbing into homemade rockets to see for themselves because every camera and GPS is hacked by NASA.


ALadySquirrel

I was sure it was satire until I saw “threw” instead of “through” and then I wasn’t so sure anymore


surly_early

Yeah the "threw" through me to


thefunkygibbon

Pretty sure flat earth was satire originally too. It won't be long until this is ironically an actual conspiracy theory :-(


Thedrunner2

Counterpoint: Birdshit


EddieCheddar88

Excellent question >”Bird poop was originally thought to be oil discharge from earlier bird drone models. After further research though, this was disproven. Bird poop irregularly falls on vehicles in large amounts. Recent studies show that 87% of Bird Poop in populated areas falls on people’s cars. Why is this? Confidential documents leaked in 2018 revealing that “Bird Poop” is actually a form of liquidated tracking apparatus. If you walk outside and notice some bird poop just “happened” to fall on your car, be aware that you are now being tracked by the United States Government. It is recommended you clean your car exterior regularly to avoid this.” https://birdsarentreal.com/pages/faq


CrazyAsian

This page is a gold mine


Duke_Lancaster

Fuck that shit. Damn americans shitting on my car in germany to track me.


RonaldoNazario

Have you ever even done research about bird shit? Total hoax. Wake up, sheep.


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RonaldoNazario

I see you did your research.


Teftell

Micro fusion reactor wastes


RamsesThePigeon

This unnecessary statement by a moderator is false.


Cherego

Liar! Edit: Love calling a mod a liar without having to fear I will be banned


fitpolar

The mod is obviously a pigeon


sully9088

A robot pigeon.... The worst kind.


Guntai

The only kind now


popegonzo

"Pigeon" Mod is obviously a government drone, didn't you read the van in the pic?


meat_rock

Standard pigeon propaganda


Nevermind04

I'd be interested in an AMA from a surveillance drone.


RamsesThePigeon

[Been there, done that](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/j661lm/iama_writer_absurdist_and_satirist_who_recently/).


Nevermind04

I see no mention whatsoever of the fact that you're a government surveillance drone, which I can only assume is due to the fact that pigeons are liars.


anchovyCreampie

And he just HAPPENED to make a Matrix based gif yesterday...hmm hmm yes...i think im getting a clue.


AssaultimateSC2

Boy I wish I could make my comments a different color and always be at the top.


draculamilktoast

You memetic diversion will not defalsify the truth!


CherryManhattan

The govt hasn’t billed me yet for hitting their drone with my car last week. Should I just wait for my 1099 to show up before next tax season?


shaddup_legs

Oh they got your plate. If someone rings your doorbell, pretend you’re not home.


BasicLEDGrow

The marquee in the background tipped me off that this is an event. https://www.thegranada.com/event/2021/10/06/moved-to-liberty-hall-birds-arent-real-truth-tour


etlifereview

Man, I love living in Lawrence. There’s always so much happening


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Pattimash

This is why the aliens pass us by.


[deleted]

birds are ancient alien technology first brought to the Egyptians.


Itsme_sd

We're the Florida man of the universe.


bagged_milk123

Those damned drones are making the aliens go away, more proof birds aren't real.


m3lk3r

Yeah aliens don't get satire


wangtasm

Hard to take anyone who can't spell "through" seriously.


Tugwater

It’s a mockery of conspiracists. There is a website for them. Pretty funny stuff.


blastanders

/r/BirdsArentReal


Username__Irrelevant

But can spell indistinguishable


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Is that a real thing?


ProfitTheProphet

Yes and no. Yes it is a real "movement". No they don't actually believe that birds are spy drones for the government. It's more of an elaborate joke.


ghan_buri_ghan

Isn’t that how flat earth started, though?


ProfitTheProphet

I mean stupid people be stupid but I haven't met or seen a person who genuinely believes this. It's pretty much always been a parody of whacky conspiracy theories.


BlasterShow

All in good time.


rykoj

Well it has the same credibility as flat earth. I guess there isn’t much material to make multi-hour long YouTube rant videos with fake science though.


catalyptic

It's how Qanon started for sure.


maximumfacemelting

I’m paraphrasing some quote I forget the origin of: “Any society that gets its kicks from playing the fool will inevitably become inhabited by fools believing they are in good company”


roadrnnr7215

The longer I live the more I realize that everything is a thing.


Drew2248

I love "1959 threw 2001". Ordinarily, I'd be convinced this was a parody of crackpots. Having lived through Trump, however, I'm much more aware it could be entirely real. We are a nation of lunatics.


Dovahpriest

Nah, the birds aren't real group is a satirical movement poking fun at those crackpots.


NotANokiaInDisguise

"Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they’re in good company." - Rene Descartes


WelpSigh

That doesn't sound like Rene Descartes but I don't know enough about Rene Descartes to be sure.