conspiracy-theorists
Original: conspiracy-theorists on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with brown hair and a goatee, wearing a red shirt, speaks emphatically. Behind him stands a woman with grayish-purple hair and round glasses, wearing a yellow shirt, looking at him with a skeptical or weary expression.
Man: "YEAH RIGHT. WE LEARNED TO MAKE GIANT SPACE ROCKETS, LANDED ON THE MOON, DREW UP MOONBASE PLANS, THEN JUST DECIDED TO STAY HOME. HA!"
Caption (below panel): Conspiracy theorists make me sad.
Votey:
A close-up sketch of a balding man with raised eyebrows and an open, exasperated mouth.
Man: "We spent $2,000,000,000 on a super-collider, then just cancelled it!? HA!"
A man with brown hair and a goatee, wearing a red shirt, speaks emphatically. Behind him stands a woman with grayish-purple hair and round glasses, wearing a yellow shirt, looking at him with a skeptical or weary expression.
Man: "YEAH RIGHT. WE LEARNED TO MAKE GIANT SPACE ROCKETS, LANDED ON THE MOON, DREW UP MOONBASE PLANS, THEN JUST DECIDED TO STAY HOME. HA!"
Caption (below panel): Conspiracy theorists make me sad.
Votey:
A close-up sketch of a balding man with raised eyebrows and an open, exasperated mouth.
Man: "We spent $2,000,000,000 on a super-collider, then just cancelled it!? HA!"
Alt text
A two-panel comic mocking conspiracy theorists. In the main panel, a man with a goatee in a red shirt rants at a skeptical woman in glasses and a yellow shirt: "Yeah right. We learned to make giant space rockets, landed on the moon, drew up moonbase plans, then just decided to stay home. Ha!" His tone implies he thinks this is too absurd to be true (i.e., the moon landing must be faked). The caption reads: "Conspiracy theorists make me sad." The votey is a rough sketch of a balding, exasperated man making the same flawed argument about a different real event: "We spent $2,000,000,000 on a super-collider, then just cancelled it!? Ha!" — the joke being that governments really do start huge expensive projects and abandon them, so disbelief is not evidence of a hoax.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.