Wahre Welle

Germany’s state education ministry launched an online channel called Wahre Welle TV—True Wave TV—that broadcasts like a straight-up conspiracy outlet. Lizard people controlling global finance. Flat earth proofs. Moon Nazis. Cell phone radiation killing children. Angela Merkel puppeted by America and banks and whoever else. The whole thing is satire, obvious enough that you’d recognize how stupid these channels actually sound.

It’s a stupid plan.

No one who genuinely believes in aliens and chemtrails and that the German Reich still exists is going to watch that and think, Oh, I’ve been fooled. They’ll think they’ve found the real thing, or they’ll know the government made it to discredit the truth. You can’t convince someone by broadcasting that they’re an idiot.

I understand the impulse, though. When you spend time looking at what people actually believe online—comment threads, forums, the raw unfiltered garbage people swallow when they’re lost—you want to do something. The old world made sense: newspapers, TV, a few trusted sources, a boundary between knowing and speculating. The internet erased that. Now everything is possible, and when you’re drowning in noise, you reach for the scariest story.

But satire doesn’t change minds. Mockery doesn’t. The only thing that registers is confirmation. The moment authorities are laughing at you is the moment you know you’ve found the truth—that’s how it works for believers.

Maybe there’s no fixing this. You just watch people disappear into their own information worlds and accept you can’t reach them.