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One of the weirdest parts of conspiratorialism is the hunt for anagrams as secret expressions of guilt. Ken Cheng’s recent BBC Comedy of the Week show, he has a great bit on this, pointing out how weird it is that someone figured out that “delta” and “omicron” are an anagram for “media control.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ckq7pb
As Cheng says, “do they think the coronavirus was invented by Tom Marvolo Riddle?” And yet, sometimes, villains really do use word-games to tip their hands. How else to explain that Petsmart’s predatory “job training” scheme for new hires is called TRAP?
https://www.wired.com/story/contract-clause-loading-us-workers-with-debt/
TRAP – “training repayment agreement provision” – was billed as a free job training scheme for new Petsmart hires, a 4-week program