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Explanation
This comic is titled "Conspire" and presents the idea of infiltrating conspiracy theory groups not to debunk them, but to make them even stupider, as a "weekend activity."
In the first panel, someone at a conspiracy rally holds up a sign reading "I keep trying to get autism but the vaccines don't work!" This takes the anti-vaccine conspiracy theory — which falsely claims vaccines cause autism — and flips it into an absurdist complaint, as if autism were a desirable goal that vaccines are failing to deliver.
In the second panel, another infiltrator shouts "Privatize chemtrails!" to a crowd. The chemtrails conspiracy theory holds that the white trails left by aircraft are actually chemical agents being sprayed by the government. The joke here is proposing to privatize this supposed government program, applying free-market ideology to a fictional conspiracy, which is both nonsensical and a satirical nod to the political overlap between conspiracy theorists and anti-government libertarians.
The humor works on multiple levels: it satirizes conspiracy theories by showing how easy it would be to inject even more ridiculous ideas into movements that already believe absurd things, and it plays on the concept that conspiracy communities have no real quality control on their beliefs. The comic's caption frames this as a fun "weekend activity," treating the trolling of conspiracy theorists as a lighthearted hobby.