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I get fatigued when people at bars or parties try to preach at me about how alien life is obviously behind the UFOs and if I don't believe them I'm a "sheep". Same goes for the wave of girls who think they're witches because they bought Tarot cards off Amazon.

It's depressing how uneducated, gullible people think they're clever for having "super secret" info no one else has.

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Sounds like you're hanging out with the wrong crowd.

Sometimes I think that's the case, and sometimes I think the wrong crowd is rapidly becoming the only crowd.

It's legitimately everywhere. The spread of baseless conspiracy theories, belief in magic and the occult, flat earthers, etc. has measurably gotten worse, I want to recall a few HN articles about the topic.

It's super depressing how stupid the average person is. It gets worse when I try to justify to myself that I'm not right there with them.

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