• DaCookeyMonsta@lemmy.world
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      That wasn’t always public knowledge. It was a thing you only learned about later on when you were more indoctrinated. Then undercover reporters found out and South Park made it very public.

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        It was mostly publicized via Usenet by Arnaldo Lerma, Dennis Erlich, Karin Spaink, David Touretzky, and other activists and ex-Scientologists starting in the early 1990s. The South Park episode didn’t come out until over ten years later in 2005.

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      They don’t lead with that and only reveal it when you are in deep enough to not recognize the sunk cost fallacy.

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      Gotta give them points for snake oil creativity though. Their nonsense is much more entertaining than hearing “invisible sky wizard did it” as the answer to every question for millennia.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      Yeah. But in a world where JFK is coming back or something, a volcano cult isn’t like stand-out crazy anymore.