I don’t think this really maps directly to “numerology based conspiracy”. It’s not that relevant that the symbology happens to be numbers. To me, this would be a numerology-based conspiracy if 1488 wasn’t already an established white supremacist dog-whistle/signal, and the conspiracy theorist invented the connection to explain why those particular numbers were used. But this kind of signalling is effective for the same reason it’s dangerous to draw a conclusion based on it alone: there are lots of plausible reasons for 14 and 88 to come up that aren’t related to signalling nazi ideology which makes it easy to dismiss as numerology.
I think your reasons for being skeptical are right. And this is the exact type of statement where I would expect this coincidence to pop up. Both are a reasonable number of days for bureaucracy to take, the large discrepancy between them is required for the complaint in the tweet to happen in the first place, and I would expect the number of days to be very specific rather than a round number.
“Person running the twitter account did it without any approval from the campaign” is the most likely explanation to me if it isn’t a coincidence. Although Biden admin taking exactly 88 days to get Kennedy to say 88 when complaining is a quality counter-conspiracy.
And this is the exact type of statement where I would expect this coincidence to pop up. Both are a reasonable number of days for bureaucracy to take, the large discrepancy between them is required for the complaint in the tweet to happen in the first place, and I would expect the number of days to be very specific rather than a round number.
I agree with this. Although I will note people are claiming it actually took 56 (IIRC) days for them to get back to him.
666 for example is a well-established number in the bible as well. Those self-professed Satanists that do exist care about it. It’s not conspiracy theorists who made up that 666 has meaning for some people. You do find 666 appearing on T-shirts as well.
I don’t think this really maps directly to “numerology based conspiracy”. It’s not that relevant that the symbology happens to be numbers. To me, this would be a numerology-based conspiracy if 1488 wasn’t already an established white supremacist dog-whistle/signal, and the conspiracy theorist invented the connection to explain why those particular numbers were used. But this kind of signalling is effective for the same reason it’s dangerous to draw a conclusion based on it alone: there are lots of plausible reasons for 14 and 88 to come up that aren’t related to signalling nazi ideology which makes it easy to dismiss as numerology.
I think your reasons for being skeptical are right. And this is the exact type of statement where I would expect this coincidence to pop up. Both are a reasonable number of days for bureaucracy to take, the large discrepancy between them is required for the complaint in the tweet to happen in the first place, and I would expect the number of days to be very specific rather than a round number.
“Person running the twitter account did it without any approval from the campaign” is the most likely explanation to me if it isn’t a coincidence. Although Biden admin taking exactly 88 days to get Kennedy to say 88 when complaining is a quality counter-conspiracy.
I agree with this. Although I will note people are claiming it actually took 56 (IIRC) days for them to get back to him.
666 for example is a well-established number in the bible as well. Those self-professed Satanists that do exist care about it. It’s not conspiracy theorists who made up that 666 has meaning for some people. You do find 666 appearing on T-shirts as well.