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Theory Debunked: 'California Fires Caused By Gov't Space Lasers'
2018-11-18
[Weekly Standard] A conspiracy theory involving lasers, the government, and California wildfires began circulating on social media this week in the wake of the catastrophic Camp Fire in California.

One YouTuber suggested that the fires were started by a "Directed Energy Weapon" (e.g. a laser) in order to distract us from the mass killing in Las Vegas last year (he also posited that the 2017 Gerard Butler movie Geostorm was "mostly outer space reinforcement propaganda").

"The government is starting these fires," one Facebook user said. "Marinate on this ..."
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  I'm good with the flat earth.
Goes right along with the 'Hollow Earth'.

Whatever floats your boat.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2018-11-18 17:24  

#3  Depends on who shows up to comment today.
Posted by: gorb   2018-11-18 16:39  

#2  The Deep Stateâ„¢ has already turned back the efforts of Representative Dennis Kucinich's H.R.2977 - Space Preservation Act of 2001 to keep "mind controlling lasers" and other evil, no doubt fascist and imperialist as well!, weapons from space. Obviously this is a Dark Conspiracyâ„¢ to cover up a botched weapons test. (Do I need the /sarc tag?)
Posted by: magpie   2018-11-18 15:05  

#1  HAH! Obviously false as "outer space" doesn't exist! We're on a Flat Earth. Prove me wrong, you deniers!
(Do I need a [sarc off] here?)
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2018-11-18 09:55  

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