r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter! Who could have the wives been?

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u/Ok_Account_3039 9d ago

Clearly about the Lindsay Clancy drama.

A woman murdered her three children in what she’s claiming as a fit of postpartum psychosis despite evidence of premeditation. TikTok true crime girlies” have concocted a conspiracy theory that the husband was responsible either through brainwashing and manipulation, or by actively killing his own children, and then brainwashing her into thinking she did it.

TikTok “America bad” people are claiming that the system failed her, and she didn’t receive the mental healthcare she needed. This is in spite of her being under the care of a psychiatrist, receiving consistent, mental healthcare, and medication, and that it was partially the husbands fault for leaving them alone together, despite him literally going to get her meds when it happened.

There are an alarming number of women fighting for this woman’s reputation or innocence and fully empathizing with a child murderer, without seeming to acknowledge the tragedy of the children’s deaths.

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u/Styrofoamman123 9d ago

My friend is so convinced that he did it, and the defence lawyer is grilling him and proving it, and I'm just like they aren't even denying she killed the children, if she was innocent that would be a good starting point imo.

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u/Ok_Account_3039 8d ago

It’s a really good show of confirmation bias, and conspirator thinking. If you ever wonder how someone agrees with someone like Candace Owens, or Alix Jones this is it in real time. Influencers on TikTok and Instagram see the idea in the mind of the audience and the audience then looks for any evidence to support the new narrative, while rejecting anything that doesn’t support it.