The 1st time I remember Rogan being out of his depth with a real charlatan was Peter Schiff and his laissez-faire economic bullshit. The health nuts and political crazies zeroed in not too long after.
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Egyptian pyramid conspiracies are not light fun. Itâs racist anti-science nonsense that leads directly to things like anti-vaxers and climate change denial.
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The last episode I watched was Bill Burr, if you havenât seen it I recommend a watch while baked as F. You wonât be disappointed, believe me.
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Do you even
bro?
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Itâs light fun. If it were to transform so many folks into vile pieces of shit, then fun is the only thing we should strive to have because society is completely fucked. Get some fresh air.
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They are all predicated on two ideas
- Black and brown people are too stupid to have invented anything
And
- science is bullshit and not any better at getting at how the world works than common sense.
These are not fun light ideas.
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What if you frame them as âJust Asking Questionsâ? Then is it ok? I think that makes it OK.
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A lot of the Chariot of the Gods alien pyramids stuff is based on racist ideas about what ancient peoples were capable of. Clovis is right that it can get problematic very quickly.
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Libs lose because when someone says wow wouldnât it be cool if aliens built the pyramids they shout SHUT UP YOU RACIST
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Iâm inclined to side with tabbaker here, but I must say, the only pyramid conspiracy yootoob I watched did have some racism in it. I posted a video here where some wacko claimed that the placement of a punctuation mark on a Shakespeare cover page was code for the coordinates of the pyramids. A few times in the video he was like, âSuch and such number present in the pyramids wasnât discovered until the year 17xxâ. Uh clearly it was, just not by white people in academia. One doesnât need etale cohomology to stumble on the Euler-Mascheroni constant, and brown people discovering that number doesnât require an explanation like âaliens did itâ.
This isnât a debate with sides. The foundation of the entire âtheoryâ is racist and anti science. There is a long history of these ideas in history and anthropology. They have literally zero evidence to support them. Itâs 100% imperialism and racism. Youâll notice there is never a single actual credentialed academic in support of the claims. Itâs always âavocationalâ historians.
Itâs also odd that aliens never played any role in white cultures or civilizations.
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Isnât the most common pro-alien argument that even modern engineers wouldnât be able to pull it off without relying on modern machinery? That doesnât seem like a racist argument. (But Iâm coming at this topic with ~zero knowledge of the theories.)
Sure they claim that. Itâs of course completely stupid since we can duplicate 100% of what was done, know exactly how they did it and can trace the evolution of the technology through the local culture. The construction of the pyramids are as much a mystery as the Washington monument.
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Clovis you donât hear about all the other conspiracies because thatâs not something youâre interested in at all!
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I donât know what this means.
You think these alien conspiracy theories are dumb (and they are!) so youâre not actively seeking them out so of course youâre not going to hear about all of them.
Thatâs true of the last 10 years or so but I taught a course on pseudoscience and archaeology for years so have read all the foundational texts and I have seen all the shows that popularized this nonsense.
Wow thatâs really cool. Whatâs your favorite?
Favourite is a weird word. Lol
My favorite Nazi is Rommel.
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