Finally caught the "satellite dishes are mind control" crowd in a lie

I've been reading this board for a while and always see people claiming those old satellite dishes on people's houses are actually mind control devices. They say the government uses them to beam signals into people's brains. Last week I was helping my uncle clean out his garage and we found his old 1990s satellite dish from Primestar. I took a photo of the internals and posted it in one of those groups. The wiring is just a simple coaxial cable going to a receiver box. It's literally just signal in and power out. I asked the people who posted those claims to show me any actual proof of a transmitter component. Nobody replied. It feels good to finally have a solid win against that specific misinformation because it's so easy to fact check if you just look at the hardware itself. Has anyone else had luck debunking something similar just by showing them the actual parts?

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barbarab563mo ago

Well that'll shut em up. Show em the coax and watch em scatter.

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burns.ruby3mo ago

Hold up, I mean, maybe it's just me but coax is actually getting more popular not less. A lot of the new internet setups still rely on it, especially for cable broadband which a ton of people have. Idk, it's not like it's going extinct anytime soon if the whole industry is still built around it. And showing someone a coax cable isn't going to "scare" them off, it's just a standard piece of gear now.

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