• DraconicSun@piefed.socialEnglish
    2 hours

    Illuminati believers were onto something, but now that it’s all been revealed they’re completely silent. Because, of course, the Illuminati were all on their side instead of being “godless satanic communists”.

    • blackbelt352@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      The illuminati conspiracy theorists were looking for a complicated narrative with magical bullshit to justify their hatred of Jewish people. The rest of us can plainly see that its just ridiculously easy for the billionaire class to pay off politicians for favorable legislation without the need for shadow puppets, MKUltra brainwashing and Jewish blood libel to explain everything.

      • pastermil@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2 hours

        I’m fairly certain that all the ridiculous conspiracy theories are created to hide the real conspiracies in all the noises.

        As for illuminati, isn’t it basically just an ancient think-tank?

        • blackbelt352@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1 hour

          I mean, we do know at this point that /pol/ and Q on 4chan wre an actual psyop by Bannon and Epstein to spread half nonsense conspiracy theories. So much of the bs spread through Q had just enough “if you squint hard enough they’re just telling you what they are doing” to make all the conspiracy theory shit work as well as it did. Like how there are so many references in the ao far released files to “pizza parties” as their codewords for ||raping children|| coincides in theming with Q directing psychos toward the basement of a random 1 story pizza parlor as the epicenter of a Clinton sex trafficking ring.

          I also do believe in some extent to the “every conspiracy theory is a psyop to distract from the real conspiracy.” Sort of like dead internet theory, there’s still live human beings online, just that there are also a ton of bots out there and its difficult to tell the difference between the bots and the genuine people.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
    34 minutes

    For each participant, Dialog logs a membership status, every retreat the person has attended, a biography, a home city, and a private access token. WIRED is not publishing the tokens, which function as login credentials, or the personalized account links that contain them.

    This is an odd thing to say given that neither Wired nor their source (“the Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew”) appear to be publishing any of the actual data whatsoever, beyond the handful of mostly nonspecific references to it in the article text. (Eg, lots of sentences like “The website directory names sitting Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the Paypal Mafia, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States, along with the founders and directors of many of the country’s largest surveillance, data-broker, and advertising-data companies.” - omitting names of any of these people.)

    Also, the linked archive says:

    Update 6/16/2026, 5:47 pm EDT: WIRED updated this article to correct a conflation of two people named Jeff Epstein. A small revision was also made to address a security concern raised by a Dialog representative.

    Someone helpfully had already made an earlier archive before that, so we can see what information Wired journalists Dell Cameron and Yulia Almazova removed at the request of a Dialog representative: where it now says “The retreat is scheduled for August 12-16 at a venue near Dublin” it originally said “The retreat is scheduled for August 12-16 at the Powerscourt Hotel outside Dublin”.

  • masterofn001@lemmy.caEnglish
    2 hours

    Thiel is also on the BILDERBERG steering committee.

    When he started dialog way back, he wanted it to be the tech version of the bilderberg group.

    These asshats are ru(i)nning this planet.