• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Oh shit I remember this. This was one of the things my parents said and I had no idea where they got it from.

    No amount of logical explanation or showing James Randi testing past claims from “human magnets” helped.

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      7 months ago

      Same. Covid vaccine conspiracist aunt came over and asked if we had tried putting a paper clip on our vaccine injection site. I laughed and she said she was serious.

      Fucking Facebook, man. Got all these boomers acting foolish.

      • Vanon@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Way beyond foolishness. It’s more like weaponized stupidity, cultist behavior, that’s threatening all of us with some kind of idiocracy.