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[–] [email protected] 64 points 7 months ago (1 children)

wasn't there some sort of weird Q-Anon conspiracies surrounding {Insert literally anything here}

Yes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

What were they? (About the eclipse.)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (4 children)

a real opportunity for smugglers and cartels and migrants to come right in.”

Sigh

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Ahh yes, under cover of shade

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wide open for a handful of minutes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

"While everyone is watching the sun, we'll crouch down and sneak right past them."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

evidently their political worldview was heavily influenced by classic vaudevillian antics and screwball cartoons

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

And the idea that an eclipse is as dark as being in a cave without a flashlight.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Once in a lifetime opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As a GM I would give my players a bonus to stealth during a total eclipse if they wanted to sneak past some guards, so I think this is a very valid take. ;-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I mean, the guards would probably want to get a look at the eclipse! Haha

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

When else could the cartels cross the region under cover of darkness? It's not something that happens every night.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Yeah I know right? Joe Biden should have done more to stop the eclipse!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Oh I so fucking called that when I found out that the path of totality went straight through Eagle Pass.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I'm just assuming, probably correctly. I don't bother with that nonsense. But yes is a safe answer since everything's a freaking conspiracy with that bunch of nutjobs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Neither do I, I just saw a headline the other day.