What are we then supposed to do?
The most stomach-turning story of the decade was filled in, earlier today, when it was revealed that the popular Santa Barbara surf school owner, Matthew Taylor Coleman, was “obsessed with QAnon and serpent DNA conspiracy theories” before gruesomely murdering his two young children in Mexico.
According to NBC News, the 40-year-old confessed to authorities that he used a spearfishing gun, earlier reported as a wooden stake, to stab his two-year-old son and ten-month-old daughter to death because “they were going to grow into monsters” due his wife’s “serpent DNA.”
According to Business Insider, “Contemporary belief in reptilians is mostly linked to British conspiracy theorist David Icke, who first published his book ‘The Biggest Secret’ in 1998. Icke alleged that ‘the same interconnecting bloodlines have controlled the planet for thousands of years,’ as the book’s Amazon description says. The book suggests that blood-drinking reptilians of extraterrestrial origin had been controlling the world for centuries, and even originated the Illuminati — a fictitious group of world leaders that conspiracy theorists say control the world.”
Coleman allegedly referenced his “enlightenment” after his arrest and claimed that “he knew it was wrong” though “hoped to save the world with the action.”
Disturbing alternative narratives have wildly proliferated in the past few years becoming accepted by larger and larger swaths of the population. I suppose we all, here, know someone who has jumped the shark, so to speak, but what to do with all of this, practically?
How to interact, converse, correct? Cutting off, ostracizing, “cancelling” doesn’t seem like it works.
At all.
Of course Coleman was profoundly mentally wrecked but did thinking conspiratorially lead to his horrific, unforgivable action or did his profound mental wreckage merely find its disturbing alternative narrative and latch on?
What are we then supposed to do but, more importantly, how can we, all of us, protect everyone around us and especially our children? We, surfers, knew this man. He was one of us. He was ours, as disgustingly difficult as it is to hold.
There has to be a way to make this never ever happen again in our ranks.
Being disgusted isn’t enough.
There just has to be something we can do.
you sayin reptiles’s ain’t reel?
You’re not seriously trying to justify the idea of ingesting chlorine are you?! Many pharmaceuticals derive from or emulate the medicinal effects of plants and herbs. But chlorine or other disinfectants, c’mon, that’s a stretch.
LGR, what on earth are you talking about? Trump DID collude with Russia! He adored Putin and talked to him often. Shortly after he was elected he even invited 2 Russian Officials to the Oval Office for a private meeting to talk about firing Comey (who was investigating him and Russia), and even referred to him as a “nutjob” – effectively giving them, our enemies, comfort and aid – also known as treason.
The FBI found evidence that Russia was behind all the Facebook lies about the Clintons and Democrats, too. That was the original fake news, then trump hijacked the term and twisted it
Hillary and the DNC never colluded with them. Where on earth did you hear that nonsense you spout? FOX Entertainment?! Talk about misinformation- wow!!
Denmark would be the Third Reich if my grandfather didn’t come to the rescue. American dream alive and well.
Right now, the far-right has the nutcases. It ain’t even close.
And I’m on no side, I’ll vote D or R – been a registered I since 1995 before it was the cool thing to do. Problem is right now is the R side is more interested in fighting culture wars than actual governing. So until they pull their heads out of their asses and quit embracing these loonies, I am going to keep slinging arrows.
I lick pu$$y not boots. I actually feel sorry for all you haters.
Our great country gives you the freedom to be… A looser(winner) surfer working just to score the next killer session. Or working 10 hours a day for… an illegal immigrat can work construction along side a citizen and earn enough money to drive a new truck and rent or buy a house in So Cal if they apply themselves. But some architect from Brazil in comment earlier complaining that his fravelas were sad because his carpenters didn’t have doors on there houses. Fuck you can go to work in America and get ahead. Sorry if you’re country sucks. A carpenter in So Cal makes bank! And our whole population would be richer if we didn’t sell out to China for cheap shit! Stop your sniveling capitalism wins!
Guy apparently drove his Spinter van into Mexico. I’ve always thought Sprinter bros were a bit off.
What if you lived in a society that believed one group when they said that having more money than needed, a surplus if you will, was necessary? Even at the expense of health, (mental and other), education and even more generally infrastructure? And when they were voted in, they made the deficit of money consistently larger, despite being the party/government of ‘sound economic management’. But somehow, while all the shit was falling/failing around them, their mates, in fast becoming obsolete industries, got richer while enabling the very issues that require attention. And at the same time there was a public health issue that can be resolved quite quickly, but won’t be because it has become an ideological issue, more so than a common sense issue.
Wouldn’t that be wild?
What can be done about it?
United States loves their psychos. Need proof??
Name the victims. Name their documentaries
How many letters do they get in jail?
How many murder mysteries are now nighttime bed stories for the streaming suckers?
You’re barking at a cloud. Begin a conversation about how as a culture we laud and remember crime and the guilty, we NEVER remember the victims.
It’s easy to blame one person or an admin. But blaming content creators at Netflix or hbo?? they’re just being creative leave them alone.
They’re not teaching how to get away murder….never..
And then you spew some ridiculous “coat hanger” sh!+ like some low iq ghetto garbage. Typical response. You’ve never even experienced the “real World”. Your in your safe little bubble, and have never seen what’s real out there. But pretend you have, ’cause internet.
Maybe elect a president that denounces these whackos rather than embracing them? Seems like a good start.
Exactly and things like qanon attract crazies like flies to shit. It’s why these are not ‘harmless’ conspiracies. Add on that the former president embraced these wackos which gave them some semblance of credibility.
How did Mypillow Mike’s cyber shamozzle go? No doubt the ‘truth’ was brought to the light…
20% part a
80% part b I reckon
https://youtu.be/e5_3XOEga4s
And what if we, as a group, then decided that some issues like mental health needed more attention and diverted some of the money we already have to that cause. And maybe, I know this is going to sound wild, if we see money is tight we ask the guy who got super rich by having his workers pee in bottles to delay his space project and start contributing more to the societies that allowed him to become super rich.
How about dropping your
neutraltroll-encouraging tone when you publish surf-adjacent whacko conspiracy stories?Did it used to be how you wanted it, but isn’t anymore?
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In the real world we vote against coat-hangers, not for dead babies
Too true. There is a pointy edge to life that can’t be sanitised away. We all need to be a little more gracious. It could be an unplanned baby in my belly but for the genetic lottery.
I am not the us that he is one of. Neither are you.
In other words, everything should be legal.
Right on.