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[โ€“] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1dqmbu1/when_the_heavens_gate_ufo_cult_did_a_mass_suicide/

All 39 were dressed in identical black shirts and sweat pants, brand new black-and-white Nike Decades athletic shoes, and armband patches reading "Heaven's Gate Away Team" (one of many instances of the group's use of the nomenclature of the fictional universe of Star Trek).

least psychotic Captain Janeway stans

There's at least 4 layers of decoding necessary to parse this post.

[โ€“] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago

Idk, it's mostly just knowing about Heaven's Gate and their idiosyncratic pop culture use, with abit of internet slang. It's just three layers of pop culture, and one layer of UFO death cult culture. I guess I'm so used to it I barely even register it as sub-text. Yikes.

But also, haven't read this one before! Yet another fascinating BMF point, though one I have heard expressed before.