I've been unironically pushing the "birds aren't real" line on people in real life for years. Dead serious, no clear tongue in cheek sign, just trying to convince people its Feds spying on us and they don't exist.

Once you've built that up enough, its very easy to slip in things they actually believe into your "ideology" and then both they and everyone around discredits it a little more. And because its clear you aren't "sane" they look like fools if they try to argue with you, abusing the classic nose on, nose off Jon Stewart defense.

I really like to push that the birds are using subliminal messages and dogwhistles to breed "systemic X-ism" from the government to keep us divided. Something that shows just how retarded the very idea of it is that people are just magically bigoted, while also possibly getting them to think that its not X-ist people doing it but the government keeping us intentionally divided to abuse us. A double whammy.

My Mexican coworker really has a love/hate relationship with it. He laughs, but also will huff off at times.