Methinks you doth protest too much, Anon. Among other things, Nostradamus was known as a prognosticator. I was using 'Nostradamus-like' with this in mind, not his charlatanism. Otherwise I could have chosen many better known charlatans. For example, 'David Icke with Hillary-Clinton like foresight in 1998...' but then the phrase would have lost all meaning. When I said David Icke is a charlatan in the same way that Alex Jones is a charlatan, I'm speaking in 'cliché' i.e. everyone knows these men are charlatans and crazy conspiracy theorists, it's literally the official narrative. (I'm sure Nostradamus also had plenty of critics.) However, I'm old enough to remember Icke from before his newfound fame in the 90s as the 'lizard people' guy, and Alex Jones from not too much later. And if there's one thing I've learned about crazy conspiracy theorists, even probably including Nostradamus, it's not unusual for them to be so uncannily prescient that to pass it off as mere charlatanism or even happenstance is probably naïve.
If you want to use a metaphor for someone who's able to predict the future, next time use the Sage of Omaha, not some outdated hustler from 500 years ago.
“NATO”, “medical data”, electronic money. Pretty eerie for 1998.
Wow, the Great Awakening.
Nostradamus was a charlatan. You're saying David Icke is a charlatan too?
Yes. As is Alex Jones but even a broken clock is correct twice a day.
So David Icke is a charlatan but you're posting his content?
Something doesn't add up here. Sus.
Methinks you doth protest too much, Anon. Among other things, Nostradamus was known as a prognosticator. I was using 'Nostradamus-like' with this in mind, not his charlatanism. Otherwise I could have chosen many better known charlatans. For example, 'David Icke with Hillary-Clinton like foresight in 1998...' but then the phrase would have lost all meaning. When I said David Icke is a charlatan in the same way that Alex Jones is a charlatan, I'm speaking in 'cliché' i.e. everyone knows these men are charlatans and crazy conspiracy theorists, it's literally the official narrative. (I'm sure Nostradamus also had plenty of critics.) However, I'm old enough to remember Icke from before his newfound fame in the 90s as the 'lizard people' guy, and Alex Jones from not too much later. And if there's one thing I've learned about crazy conspiracy theorists, even probably including Nostradamus, it's not unusual for them to be so uncannily prescient that to pass it off as mere charlatanism or even happenstance is probably naïve.
If you want to use a metaphor for someone who's able to predict the future, next time use the Sage of Omaha, not some outdated hustler from 500 years ago.