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Part One: Why Kidnapping Conspiracy Theories Are Everywhere

Behind the Bastards

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The Prehistory of America's Paranoia

Rumors started spreading on social media, namely Facebook, that car thieves had cooked up a new tactic for like getting people right text from one relevant story reads. The idea is that if you see a penny or a nickel and like slid into the door handle of your car, it's like evidence that a car thief is trying to Like break in, right? And there's so bored, aren't they? They're bored in their dumbest fuck, Sarah. It's so fucking again. I'm a very paranoid person because people like have attacked me and threatened to murder me, right? That's not part of the paranoia. But when it comes to the modern kind of kidnapping panic that

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