Birds Aren’t Real
Why we believe conspiracies, but deny systemic racism.
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4 min readDec 12, 2023
In 2017, Peter McIndoe started a satirical conspiracy theory positing that birds are actually drones operated by the U.S. government to spy on Americans.
He created an entire backstory for his joke, including that the federal government exterminated all birds between 1959 and 1971 and replaced them with lookalike…
