Hawthorne assumed Buddha_clause’s post about Zeitgeist was in actuality an attempt to get people to watch it and join the conspiracy theorists, in the guise of a complaint about his friends who’d already joined the conspiracy theorists.
It was a conspiracy theory conspiracy theory.
Conspiracy theory conspiracy theory conspiracy theory.
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Was it a meta-conspiracy theory, or just a conspiracy theory conspiracy theory?
Seriously, though, even if hawthorne really did think Buddha_Claus was pimping the movie, he was a real jerk about how he addressed it.
Oh wait…I have a new conspiracy theory! (Nzinga, you’re gonna love this one)
Buddha_Claus is actually a real-life friend of hawthorne. Hawthorne kept encouraging Buddha to join the Dope, but Buddha was afraid that his contributions wouldn’t be noticed or acknowledged, especially now that there are many more people posting. So the two of them cooked up this fake “controversy” in order to get Buddha noticed. Using his knowledge of previous Zeitgeist-related trolling, wrote the OP. He was willing to look like a jerk to help his good buddy. Buddha hasn’t even seen the movie.