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Re:When the CIA Spied on American Citizens–Using Pigeons by wildpeaks on Thursday January 12, 2023 @10:11PM (#34363535)
Reddit has rotten my brain because this is the first thing I thought about when reading this title.

Although, as much as I enjoy the silliness of it, I hope there aren't people that are taking it seriously, the similar "flat earth" joke already backfired.

Re:When the CIA Spied on American Citizens–Using Pigeons by anonu on Thursday January 12, 2023 @10:54PM (#34363758)
Don't be so hard on yourself. There was a NYT article about it. Plus it's part of the cultural zeitgeist: government conspiracies and protesting.
Re:When the CIA Spied on American Citizens–Using Pigeons by schiffern on Friday January 13, 2023 @01:31AM (#34364597)
The only thing that's implausible is the claim that all birds are spy devices.

It seems inconceivable that some modern spy devices aren't camouflaged as flying birds. A perfect smokescreen would be to widely disseminate the patently ridiculous ("joke") claim that all birds are spy devices, thus muddying the waters.

It's a simple logical shift: "there exists" vs. "for all."

Re:When the CIA Spied on American Citizens–Using Pigeons by 4ggr0 on Friday January 13, 2023 @02:54AM (#34365049)
> A perfect smokescreen would be to widely disseminate the patently ridiculous ("joke") claim that all birds are spy devices, thus muddying the waters.

Conspiracies about conspiracies, I like it. Wonder how deep we can go.

Claim that no birds are real to hide the fact that some birds aren't real, said unreal birds actually also spray COVID into the air to infect people to convince the population to take a vaccine which contains tracking chips. (110% /s)

Re:When the CIA Spied on American Citizens–Using Pigeons by schiffern on Friday January 13, 2023 @06:27AM (#34366389)
Good one, but I don't think ridicule helps us learn anything.