Kaplony
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Birds aren't real
https://wreg.com/2019/07/18/every-tweet-...billboard/
Quote:A new movement is accusing politicians of spreading lies through tweets — literally.
This month, a billboard that reads “Birds Aren’t Real” went up on the Highland Strip near the University of Memphis. According to one Memphis man, it’s part of a movement to educate people on a mass government surveillance program that replaced birds with drones.
That may sound like a joke to some, but don’t tell that to Peter McIndoe.
This Big Brother (or would it be Big Bird?) theory is that beginning in 1959, the United States government started killing off all birds in the country while simultaneously replacing them with identical, undercover surveillance drones — what we now call “birds.” Believers say that footage is used to monitor all Americans every day.
McIndoe, who is from Arkansas and said he moved to Memphis to become a “full-time activist,” said he didn’t start the movement, but around 2015, he joined because he always had a “distrust” of the feathered beings. He wanted to spread that message further than the stickers or posters, so he put up the billboard in Memphis.
Quote:McIndoe said other “bird truthers” have come to Memphis just to see the billboard. He also said other people think it’s all a joke.
“We don’t find this humorous,” he said. “This is a serious issue. And this is something where we’re trying to spread awareness of unconsensual surveillance happening on a mass level. Birds are lying to them every day. Every tweet by a bird is a lie.”
Quote:“I consider myself to be a normal American,” McIndoe said. “I wake up in the morning, brush my teeth, wash my car, and I have an avid disbelief in avian beings.”
He said the government-controlled bird drones use power lines as “charging units” to power up, and birds that are eaten — like chicken and turkey — are actually synthetic meat alternatives.
“I knew I had to give my all to the movement, so I abandoned everything,” he said. “I left my friends. I abandoned my family. I have not spoken to them since, and I made the truth my family.”
Quote:He said this is just a phenomenon in the U.S., and it’s a reason for the distrust of the U.S. government.
“Sometimes I’ll travel internationally just to breathe that drone-free air,” he said. “Sometimes I’ll go to the Himalayas, look around at all the real birds there. It gives me this warmth, this feeling of hope, for what this country could be if we can fight back, change legislation and get these drones out of here and the real birds back in.”
McIndoe’s activism may be raising awareness. The amount of Google searches for the terms “birds aren’t real” and “are birds real” drastically increased around the end of 2018 and beginning of 2019.
These people have the same voting rights you do.
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07-20-2019 11:37 PM |
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ArmyBlazer
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RE: Birds aren't real
You know, if the government were actually able to replace all the birds, I wouldn't even be bothered by it. That's just impressive. At least they are making our tax dollars work.
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07-21-2019 06:38 AM |
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TigerBlue4Ever
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RE: Birds aren't real
We do manage to get some wackos in Memphis. #memphomaniacs
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07-21-2019 07:17 AM |
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Owl 69/70/75
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RE: Birds aren't real
So when I shot and grilled those quail, I was eating circuit boards? Didn't taste like it.
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07-21-2019 11:33 AM |
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banker
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RE: Birds aren't real
(07-21-2019 11:33 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: So when I shot and grilled those quail, I was eating circuit boards? Didn't taste like it.
Yeah, first rule of conspiracy theories is don't have one that is easily disproven by anyone with a slingshot or BB gun.
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07-21-2019 12:47 PM |
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JRsec
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RE: Birds aren't real
(07-21-2019 06:38 AM)ArmyBlazer Wrote: You know, if the government were actually able to replace all the birds, I wouldn't even be bothered by it. That's just impressive. At least they are making our tax dollars work.
If they wanted to spy on us wouldn't they have replaced roaches and ants? They are omnipresent and it would be easier to mimic their actions robotically and they don't fly South in the winter! But then of course the birds might eat them. As for eating the synthetic chicken wouldn't that be more effective than say an endoscopy or colonoscopy and isn't the eventual destination of the sewer a waste literally of taxpayer's dollars?
Perhaps the real end game here is psychotherapy for those paranoid of nature.
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07-21-2019 01:04 PM |
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200yrs2late
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RE: Birds aren't real
Synthetic chicken. I guess that's why chicken biggest are shaped that way.
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07-21-2019 01:12 PM |
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Fo Shizzle
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RE: Birds aren't real
I have a woodpecker in a tree behind the house that looks very sketchy.
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07-21-2019 07:10 PM |
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JRsec
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RE: Birds aren't real
(07-21-2019 07:10 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote: I have a woodpecker in a tree behind the house that looks very sketchy.
It's merely a distraction. The real enemy is the tree!
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07-21-2019 07:19 PM |
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olliebaba
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RE: Birds aren't real
(07-21-2019 07:17 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote: We do manage to get some wackos in Memphis. #memphomaniacs
We know...and some work in pharmacys.
(This post was last modified: 07-21-2019 07:24 PM by olliebaba.)
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07-21-2019 07:23 PM |
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Fo Shizzle
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RE: Birds aren't real
(07-21-2019 07:19 PM)JRsec Wrote: (07-21-2019 07:10 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote: I have a woodpecker in a tree behind the house that looks very sketchy.
It's merely a distraction. The real enemy is the tree!
Damn..Maybe thats why it has bored thousands of holes it. I need to go check for microcameras in those holes.
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07-21-2019 07:37 PM |
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