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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'The lunacy is getting more intense': how Birds Aren't Real took on the conspiracy theorists
In early 2017, Peter McIndoe, now 23, was studying psychology at the University of Arkansas, and visiting friends in Memphis, Tennessee. He tells me this over Zoom from the US west coast, and has the most arresting face wide-eyed, curious and intense, like the lead singer of an indie band, or a young monk. This was right after the Donald Trump election, and things were really tense. I remember people walking around saying they felt as if they were in a movie. Things felt so unstable.
It was the weekend of simultaneous Womens Marches across the US (indeed, the world), and McIndoe looked out of the window and noticed counterprotesters, who were older, bigger white men. They were clear aggravators. They were encroaching on something that was not their event, they had no business being there. Added to that, it felt like chaos, because the world felt like chaos.
McIndoe made a placard, and went out to join the march. Its not like I sat down and thought Im going to make a satire. I just thought: I should write a sign that has nothing to do with what is going on. An absurdist statement to bring to the equation.
That statement was birds arent real. As he stood with the counterprotesters, and they asked what his sign meant, he improvised. He said he was part of a movement that had been around for 50 years, and was originally started to save American birds, but had failed. The deep state had destroyed them all, and replaced them with surveillance drones. Every bird you see is actually a tiny feathered robot watching you.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/14/the-lunacy-is-getting-more-intense-how-birds-arent-real-took-on-the-conspiracy-theorists
PXR-5
(522 posts)You see "them" charging their batteries on power lines, any other "living" being would get electrocuted if they touched them.
It's not all bad though, these bird replicas can also extend 5G to rural areas.
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)jeffreyi
(1,943 posts)Going out to feed my little drones right now.
they have to have fuel to keep flying, after all.
getagrip_already
(14,821 posts)Shite it all over your cars.
TlalocW
(15,388 posts)Who once thanked the Royal Society for the Prevention of Birds in an acceptance speech.
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