• drspod@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    they can’t be jammed the way radio can.

    I wonder how well these satellite laser links do with various types of cloud cover.

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      4 days ago

      By repeating their rhetoric, even as a joke, it’s just giving oxygen to people who don’t deserve any form of publicity whatsoever. It would be better not to reference these batshit-insane conspiracy theories and then perhaps they would die more quickly.

      This story is about French/space/communications/technology. Not American/politics/racist/conspiracy. Not one genre overlap, so there’s no reason to even bring it up here. Maybe leave these jokes to the American politics threads.

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        The overlap is the “space lasers” part, and it’s a joke.

        It was already made, and it’s over now, meaning you’re the one perpetuating this shift in focus, look at the responses you generated.

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      4 days ago

      For whoever downvoted this, if it’s out of concern about ol’ our resident airborne cephalopod engaging in antisemitism, I believe that he’s poking fun at Marjorie Taylor Greene.

      https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/books/363009/jewish-space-lasers-and-the-history-of-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories/

      Back in 2018, before Marjorie Taylor Greene was a household name and a member of Congress, she took to Facebook to share a convoluted conspiracy theory. She suggested that a solar energy laser generator was being used by Pacific Gas and Electric, in collaboration with figures like Jerry Brown and Dianne Feinstein’s husband, to clear land in rural California for a $77 billion high-speed railway. She highlighted a connection between a board member of PG&E and Rothschild, Inc. The insinuation was clear to many: The Rothschilds, a historically wealthy Jewish family, were behind this nefarious plot.