re: How to deal with conspiracy theory parents

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How to deal with conspiracy theory parents

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I would think you were the reasonable one here, but the following are irrefutable:

#1- Your parents have seen some shite. They know BS when they see it. Just like when you and every other teenager in human history, your parents were dumb and out of touch, then as you matured you realized they were much wiser all along.

#2- The majority of conspiracy theories in recent history have in fact been correct. I'm not talking about the flat-earth bar club (see below), I'm talking about Epstein, Hunter's laptop, the clinton foundation, human-caused climate change (will never be settled), digital currencies, covid... You get the picture.

Flat Earth: 20+ years ago, before flat-earth was more than a joke, I found an article from the 1980's or 90's about a group of guys in Iowa or Idaho, who had a drinking/bowling club called the Flat Earthers or something. The article described it as a goofy thing and several of the guys would play it off as a real thing, a real club of believers. They'd tell local reporters about all the reasons why Earth was flat. They were even in a "Weekly World News" edition (that's one of those newspapers you used to find at the checkout of local grocery stores with stories about "aliens turned my baby into a newt"). Eventually some goofballs took it too far and it gained traction with the internets.