Reminder that "mystery flavors" exist because manufacturers realized they can just toss the next flavor into the hopper and mix them for a batch instead of going through the hassle of emptying it or designing different hoppers

You're making strawberry ice cream. Hopper's almost empty, toss in mint flavor.

Now you can sell the small batch of resulting strawberry-mint ice cream as if you'd intended to make it.

Your taffy vat is down to 10%, full of raspberry flavor. Fill it back up with mango flavor.

And now you can sell the resulting mixture, no time or material wasted.

What's interesting is that the same thing inevitably happens to any product that is manufactured similarly. Vape juice, sodas, toy plastics, etc

Any product where someone can say "fuck it, just leave it. We'll sell whatever comes out"

And one of those products amenable to this, is bullshit.

Your conspiracy theory has been almost entirely sapped dry? Only a few parts still left standing?

Toss a new flavor into the hopper.

Just mix and match random leftover ingredients. A little antisemitism left over in the hopper, don't bother emptying it. Toss in that new theory about national guard orders.

The hopper of bullshit can mix every flavor together, and someone will buy the resulting mixture no matter how incongruous the match.

For a limited time only, try our mystery conspiracy with hints of lizardoids *and* antisemitism

The way bullshit is manufactured, you never have to empty out the hopper and clean it.

Last batch said this person was secretly being controlled by globalists. New batch says they're the last best hope for freedom.

Just toss the new shit in and give it a mix.

You don't need to waste time emptying the hopper, making sure you got every last trace of the last batch out. Even if it jars completely with the new batch.

Someone will buy the result.

"This person is a traitor, but only *acting* like a traitor so they can work in secret."

The combinatorial explosion of bullshit arises just from that ability to toss more stuff into the hopper without having to clean it.

Endless combinations, endless bizarre flavor pairings. Every possible mixture of conspiracies.

It looks like doublethink. "this person is on the legal team" paired with "this person is not on the legal team."

But, it's just shit tossed in the hopper on top of the last batch.

As the last of the old bullshit gets extruded, and it tastes more like the new batch, you toss in another batch.

The bullshit machine never has to stop for cleaning, or waste an ingredient.

There's no need to shut it off, ensure that "this person is our friend" is cleaned out before tossing in "this person has always been our enemy, and he eats children's adrenal glands"

From the outside, it looks like cartoonish ineptitude and chaos. A tweet proclaiming the exact opposite of the simultaneous press conference.

But, it's an economical use of the machine.

Because those flavors are *always* been mixed and matched, there's never a defined beginning and end to a batch.

Today's antisemitic conspiracy just flows incrementally, organically, into tomorrow's theory that jfkjr is faking his death.

The result is the machine can work 24/7, with no downtime, no need to even think about what to toss into the hopper next. Grab whatever you have on hand and mix it in.

From the outside, it can look hilarious. Half the people fervently saying the exact opposite of the other half.

But from the point of view of the bullshit manufacturer, that just means the product is selling.