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[-] Railing5132@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I am utterly convinced that this scene alone is the singular source of the anti-fluoridation movement, even if many of the adherents haven't seen it. With as many dipshits that take fiction as reality, you know this is how it started, and momentum has carried it through!

It's the same as the belief that Kubrick faked the moon landing.

[-] leftzero@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Anti-fluoridation had been a thing since fluoridation was introduced in the forties, and by the fifties prominent conspiracy nutjobs were claiming it was a communist plot.

Kubrick was just parodying them with Ripper, as by 1964 most people already considered the communist conspiracy argument an example of irrational fear and paranoia.

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