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It’s stupid to frame this on the political spectrum. Psychedelics most certainly open your mind and your heart. But if you happen to be deluded into believing in a mass child trafficking conspiracy orchestrated by Democrats, your heart is going to be open to these hypothetical trafficked children while demonizing the other party.

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This. You're not going to get anything that you don't already have. It's going to reformulate what's already there, perhaps for good, perhaps for ill. You're shaking the etch-a-sketch and gazing in awe at the clean field of possible art and creativity. It'll be still you drawing the new lines, though.

There are and were mass child trafficking rings though. Epstein, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton were all involved, a girl in court said they were both on pedo island, Bill with 2 girls, she was with Prince Andrew. I'm sure there were Republicans involved too, but does that matter? It's no conspiracy.

I think someone is deluded but it's probably not the straw men you're chasing after.

I'm curious if you could elaborate.

A tiny number of very fringe people believe the Democrats-abduct-kids thing

Based on the ubiquitousness of certain memes, I think there are more than you believe. Unless all the posts on qanoncasualties and hermancainaward are fictional.

Memes are a few kb of data and can be copied ad infinitum by a few actors.

Opinions are complex brain structures and take time to develop and grow in the population.

An abundance of the former has almost no correlation with the later.

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