Pick One Conspiracy: Advice for Theorists

• 31:37Bringing up conspiracy theories makes you credible only if you pick one and commit to it, not a buffet approach like moon landing denial plus flat earth.
• 32:02Tim's getting to the point where he thinks he should retire from social media because Facebook is done as a platform.
• 32:18Facebook is over—it's just elderly people screaming at each other now, and nobody sees posts even when you boost them.
• 32:46He's trying to boost posts to sell tickets to a bus tour in November, but he admits people tell him they don't even see his content anymore.
• 33:05Tim and Ray got identified as Russian bots on Facebook after Cambridge Analytica went down, so the platform flagged their entire output.
• 33:29Tim's deplatforming himself from Facebook because social media is ruining people's lives and it's not where anything that matters actually happens.
• 33:47His friend's wife is a consultant who gets billionaires to donate money to refugees, doing more real-world good than anyone tweeting about politics.
• 34:22Instead of posting online, go travel to a foreign country the State Department warns against and get involved in an actual civil war conflict.
• 34:43If listeners send photos of themselves fighting in a Yemeni civil war, Red will paint a portrait and send it back.

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