There are 2-5 solar eclipses every year and people still went nuts and committed murder this time.
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Total solar eclipses happen every one to three years...
Also, people go nuts and kill people every damn day
The sun exists every single day, too... Hmmm 🤔
The answer is clear. The sun causes violence.
Sun is closest to a Lovecraftian Great Old One that we have out there
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Yep. The sad fact is that if there was no eclipse, she would have rationalized it differently and blamed something else.
Perhaps a storm, the full moon, the spoiled milk in her fridge, etc.
I'm going with meteor shower.
Also people just kill other people every damn hour without going nuts.
And on top of that, they're predictable hundreds of years in advance. We've known exactly when and where this eclipse was going to happen since before her grandparents were born. But somehow it's a bad omen.
We know the position of the planets know to the second. Still not a single astrologer predicted COVID except in the usual vague "There might be a challenge ahead" kind of predictions.
Esotericism is absolute cancer. A lot of those people don't even understand that eclipses are very localized events. They're moronically stupid. Even more so if they're people of color, because this whole subculture is full of Neonazis.
Bro there are tons of reasons to hate New Age without pretending it's a front for the Alt Right
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Wait, do you mean that non-whites go crazy because they're neonazis themselves? I'm a bit confused, as I know very little about this subculture but it sounds counterintuitive.
They're saying non-whites are especially crazy to be part of this sub-group because the sub-group is full of neo-nazis.
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There won't be another total eclipse in the contiguous US until 2044. Still no reason to kill someone.
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Holy fuck that was a lot.
Probably the most work an influencer ever performed in one day.
with more than 100,000 followers on X who liked her increasingly worrying messages.
It's all happening on X!
It's happening on every platform, don't look for one to blame
Yeah, I was mainly just mocking Linda Yaccarino's attempt to force "It's all happening on X" as a catchphrase while the site spirals down the drain. That being said, while the amount of crazy and hatred seems to be going up on every platform, X seems to be outperforming most other sites at becoming a toxic cesspit.
A great reminder that not every astrologist is after your money. Some are also just complete maniacs.
She was driving a Porsche, definitely was after people's money too.
She also offered a $6.99 per month home purifying cleanse that stripped people’s residences of “stagnant energy,” citing better sleep and an increased “vibration” as some of the benefits. Activating the service was simple: purchase the cleanse, get a piece of paper and title it “home purifying cleanse” and write your address on it. Then tuck it away in a safe place, she wrote.
Definitely a grifter.
Reminds me of that flat-earther Behind The Curve documentary. Such conspiracy theorist and woowoo believers basically fall into the grifted, and the grifters. Those outcast and outsiders who lack critical-thinking skills and who find community in like-minded eccentrics, and the ones just exploiting the gullible for money.
Similar with maga cult, too.
Why does anyone need an "astrology influencer"
Desperate escapism?
This is certiably a phrase / concept the world would be better off without.
Takes two of my least favorite things, mysticism and internet points, and rolls them into a real shit sandwich
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Those poor babies. Who the fuck throws an 8 month old and 9 year old out of a moving vehicle on the freeway?! What a monster. I hope that 9 year old girl is able to heal from this… by some miracle. Such a senseless tragedy.
They won't. People don't recover from things like this. Just hope they can find a loving relative to live with and come to terms with it later.
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Some serious mental illness
In her defense she was left unsupervised
Anyone who unironically begins a statement with "WAKE UP" all in caps like that can safely be assumed to, shall we say, have a tenuous grasp on reality.
WAKE UP the sea surface temperature anomaly is far exceeding last year's and last year's was record breaking.
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Social media doesn't necessiarially cause mental health issues, but it definitely dumps a tanker truck of gasoline on any spark of mental illness.
Under the Ayoka moniker, Johnson issued a torrent of antisemitic screeds, conspiracy theories and alarmist warnings on Thursday and Friday. These included a repost of a debunked apocryphal speech attributed to Ben Franklin about how Jewish people “depreciated” societies wherever they settled, a video about Jews promoting pedophilia in the entertainment industry, and unproven theories about the origin of COVID-19.
This is qanon shit. Don't know why OP didn't include it in their excerpts of the article.
I didn’t include it because it wasn’t in the first three paragraphs. My excerpt is literally the beginning of the article.
We have heard it before.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_novelette_and_novel)#Plot_summary
Nightfall is a few levels above an eclipse on Earth. I finally got the idea that Asimov was going for when playing Elite Dangerous and visiting the core, seeing millions of stars vs. what we see in our solar system. It is a bit maddening.
…yeah, I don’t have words for this one past “wtf?!”
I looked at a Twitter post she made, and that girl is fucking gonzo.
To quote Ray Finkle's father: "The engines running, there's just no one behind the wheel."
Well she's dead. So yes, literally.
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I mean, that wasn't a conspiracy theory, her religion lead her to do that. Raving about the apocalypse and trying to get raptured and shit
The nutjobs are the real idealists, and yet they always hate the left wing and support the me-me-me guys. What gives?
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Jesus christ!
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