I think the whole "birds aren't real" thing started as a joke but people actually believe it now and it's kind of concerning

My cousin tried to convince me for 20 minutes last weekend that pigeons are government drones and when I pulled up the original satirical article from 1976 he just said "that's what they want you to think" so how do we even argue with that logic?

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phoenixb669d ago

Jump right into the most overlooked part of this whole thing. People forget that the "birds aren't real" folks actually borrow a ton of logic from real conspiracy theories about surveillance, and that's the scary part (like how they mix in valid fears about drones and privacy). Your cousin probably doesn't even know he's repeating arguments from stuff about 5G or chemtrails, just with feathers swapped in. The 1976 article was a college satire project from some guys at a newspaper, but once it hit social media in the last decade, it turned into this weird self-sustaining joke that people now treat as truth because it feels rebellious to believe it. Honestly, the only way to argue is to point out that if pigeons were cameras, they'd have to have a way to recharge and transmit data 24/7, and we'd have caught one plugged into a wall socket by now.

betty_park629d ago

Right? The plug socket thing always cracks me up. Like if they were government drones, they'd have to land on someone's roof to charge every few hours. That's the easiest way to shut it down, just ask where the battery pack is.