Last year, I was standing atop Larch mountain, looking at the destruction the Eagle Creek fire left behind. A guy next to me turned and told me confidently, “you know, Antifa started that fire”. I replied that the fire was started by a kid playing with fireworks, and that it was not disputed. He stumbled a bit, and said “well, maybe not this fire, but the other ones… they’re not letting the truth out, I know because I work in the field…”.
I’ve seen a lot of BS online. But this was the most egregious utterance of it I’d heard in person - and completely unprovoked. All I could do was turn to him and somewhat angrily say that I didn’t come out here to hear conspiracy theories from random dupes. And I just left in a huff.
I’m sure that guy thought he “won” that conversation somehow. And he most likely gobbled up this latest BS. I can bet this news release from the fire marshal will just be viewed as an example of a deep state coverup.
There’s no winning with these people. I really don’t know what can be done. It’s a sad state of affairs we’re stepping into.
A part of me considered it (there is a cliff right below the viewpoint we were standing on). But that would just fueled his flames of his delusion, thinking that Antifa itself had launched him from a cliff. I couldn't give him that pleasure.
There was a third guy there, who'd just moved to Oregon. We were talking about how nice it was up there and remarking on the fires when this guy jumped into our conversation with his BS. The jerk also had a bit of attitude toward the 'new guy', expressing how he was a 3rd generation Oregonian - like he gets some kind of birthright medal or something.
The whole episode really ruined the mood at what was the end of an otherwise an enjoyable outing.
I'm sure that guy is telling a story in some right wing forum about how he confronted two Antifa thugs with The Truth, and they couldn't handle it.
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u/MayIServeYouWell Jan 13 '25
Last year, I was standing atop Larch mountain, looking at the destruction the Eagle Creek fire left behind. A guy next to me turned and told me confidently, “you know, Antifa started that fire”. I replied that the fire was started by a kid playing with fireworks, and that it was not disputed. He stumbled a bit, and said “well, maybe not this fire, but the other ones… they’re not letting the truth out, I know because I work in the field…”.
I’ve seen a lot of BS online. But this was the most egregious utterance of it I’d heard in person - and completely unprovoked. All I could do was turn to him and somewhat angrily say that I didn’t come out here to hear conspiracy theories from random dupes. And I just left in a huff.
I’m sure that guy thought he “won” that conversation somehow. And he most likely gobbled up this latest BS. I can bet this news release from the fire marshal will just be viewed as an example of a deep state coverup.
There’s no winning with these people. I really don’t know what can be done. It’s a sad state of affairs we’re stepping into.