Superior conspiracy theory:
Everything stupid regional PETA organizations do is amplified a thousandfold by the trillion dollar global meat industry. As a result, you will never hear anything good PETA does without looking for it deliberately.
Same with a whole bunch of other NGOs and other industries but to lesser extents.
The main thing I remember about PETA is that they made a very funny parody of Pokémon Black and White that was clearly written by someone who enjoyed the games but was frustrated that the games don’t commit to honestly engaging with the idea that Pokémon battling is animal abuse even though it’s, like, a central plot point, and then cretins with no media literacy ran with “PETA hates Pokémon” as the main coverage of it.
Dont post crowder, guys a fuckin asshole
if Crowder’s entire legacy ends up being “That guy in the ‘Debate me’ meme” I’ll be pretty happy
Not me. People like him should be remembered for the harm they caused, not as safe clowns sanitized by memes.
Forgetting the past is how we repeat it.
I mean this is the first time I’m learning the name, I only recognise this person as the guy in the debate me meme 🤷
If this were true it would be one of the most effective propaganda campaigns ever executed.
I think it’s far more likely that PETA is just a collection of incompetent weirdos and the meat industry wins by doing nothing.
I mean, it only really takes one or two in the leadership to encourage the worst impulses to set the organization on that trajectory. Yeah everyone else would have to be open to it, but its decently easy to weaponize a person’s righteousness. Its not necessarily what happened, but its plausible.
The founder of PETA seems like a legit crazy true believer from what I remember. Hard to fake that level of mania.
Poe’s Law applies. Even if the meat industry got the ball rolling, it would have become self-sustaining on the strength of people to whom the idea appeals on a psychological level.
My one conspiracy theory is that the secret service accidentally shot jfk after the chaos of the magic bullet. It’s a fuck up so big it demands lifetime secrecy.
But JFK wasn’t assassinated. His head just did that.
It was all engineered by Aaron Spelling in order to make The House of Yes as a vehicle for Tori.
