Conspiracy Theories: Your Favourites and Discuss Why They Happen

HughFreakingDillon
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Here’s a great video detailing the 3 main tenets of conspiracy theory belief:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFMR1M4yCfT/?igsh=dXM3bDdmbnY5ZXp4

AND THIS IS NOT A PARTISAN DISCUSSION. People of all walks believe these things. You think Fox Mulder was a republican? 😂 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Chemtrails.  My father worked as an aeronautical engineer for a major commercial airline for almost 25 years.  He talked about contrails (aka condensation trails, aka vapor trails) a few times, but talking about the chemtrail conspiracy theory. would have been a waste of his time.  He would never have lowered himself to do that.  It amazes me that this conspiracy theory has held so much traction for so long. Pure bunk.
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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,994
    edited January 30
    -Courtney having Kurt killed (That Soaked In Bleach doc makes a good-enough case for a conspiracy theory)
    -Obama having his chef killed (Who drowns while paddle boarding?) 
    -Jeffrey Epstein's suicide (Obviously) 
    -Moon landing as a hoax (Getting astronauts through that Van Allen radiation belt seems pretty risky)
    -Twin towers were brought down demolition-style (Building 7 wasn't hit with a plane, but collapsed in a similar manner as the ones that did)

    The one I give the most credence to is Epstein. He was totally killed by someone. The one I give the least credence to is the moon landing hoax (because I want to believe it really happened). 
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  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,610
    Ledbetterman10 said:

    -Obama having his chef killed (Who drowns while paddle boarding?) 

    lol wut
  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,610
    Is this thread to make fun of conspiracy theories and the dopes who believe them or for people to show their whole asses and say the dumb theories they believe? 
  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,994
    Tim Simmons said:
    Is this thread to make fun of conspiracy theories and the dopes who believe them or for people to show their whole asses and say the dumb theories they believe? 
    Neither. I took it as name some conspiracy theories you like, and put why the conspiracy theory may exist in the first place. For the Obama conspiracy theory, the theory is that paddle-boarding is a very strange way to drown, the chef was writing a tell-all book at the time of his death, and a chef for Clinton and Bush died of drowning in 2015. Does any of this indicate that Obama had his chef killed? No. That's why it's a conspiracy theory. 
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,477
    Tim Simmons said:
    Is this thread to make fun of conspiracy theories and the dopes who believe them or for people to show their whole asses and say the dumb theories they believe? 
    Ledbetterman has it correct
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  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,610
    gotcha
  • OnWis97
    OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,610
    • I want to believe: All evidence shows that Paul Wellstone was not murdered but I've always wondered...
    • I do believe: Government personnel took money from sugar/processed food to put out ridiculous food pyramid and that the government and the people who grease their pockets want us fat and sick.
    • Pretty much proven: Automakers did what they could to destroy the US transit system and push us into the level of auto-dependence we have.
    • I'm cynical enough to believe but think it would be leaked, so get the hell out: There's a cure for cancer that's hidden (provided to the elite) and not being released because there's too much money in cancer treatment. See also, the Stonecutters holding back the electric car.
    • I mean, isn't it obvious: The NBA draft lottery was created to get Patrick Ewing to New York. Less certain: The frozen envelope to make it happen.
    • Get the fuck out (Particular to my field): "15-Minute-Cities are meant to force you where they want you to live." LOL. You can have freedom without spending 90 minutes a day in a car.

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    OnWis97 said:
    • I want to believe: All evidence shows that Paul Wellstone was not murdered but I've always wondered...
    • I do believe: Government personnel took money from sugar/processed food to put out ridiculous food pyramid and that the government and the people who grease their pockets want us fat and sick.
    • Pretty much proven: Automakers did what they could to destroy the US transit system and push us into the level of auto-dependence we have.
    • I'm cynical enough to believe but think it would be leaked, so get the hell out: There's a cure for cancer that's hidden (provided to the elite) and not being released because there's too much money in cancer treatment. See also, the Stonecutters holding back the electric car.
    • I mean, isn't it obvious: The NBA draft lottery was created to get Patrick Ewing to New York. Less certain: The frozen envelope to make it happen.
    • Get the fuck out (Particular to my field): "15-Minute-Cities are meant to force you where they want you to live." LOL. You can have freedom without spending 90 minutes a day in a car.


    Good list.

    The weakening of our railroad systems would fit in there as well.  We're left in the dust by almost all, if not all developed nations in that regard.
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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,894
    The married Russian figure skaters on the plane yesterday were spies and the Army sent a suicide mission to take them out.
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  • Go Beavers
    Go Beavers Posts: 9,561
    Poncier said:
    The married Russian figure skaters on the plane yesterday were spies and the Army sent a suicide mission to take them out.
    That’s not bad, but I think to get legs it will have to involve something about Ukraine, the Bidens, and maybe Epstein. Someone more creative than me can take a shot at it. 
  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,262
    Poncier said:
    The married Russian figure skaters on the plane yesterday were spies and the Army sent a suicide mission to take them out.
    No, they were critics of Putin on the ritz and his invasion of Ukraine. COOTWH payback for getting him re-elected.
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  • battle1
    battle1 PHI Posts: 637
    edited January 30
    what is COOTWH?
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,642
    Michelle is really Michael Obama 
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,422
    josevolution said:
    Michelle is really Michael Obama 
    This might be the stupidest one. But what's worse is the people who believe it and the people who know it's  bs but continue to propogate it.
  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,610
    battle1 said:
    what is COOTWH?
    Current Occupant Of The White House because he can't type his name for some reason.

  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,610
    And you are correct in believing writing 'Trump' is less keystrokes.

  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,894
    Tim Simmons said:
    And you are correct in believing writing 'Trump' is less keystrokes.

    And mature.
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,455
    a targets perspective....



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  • lastexitlondon
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    The flat earth one is just beyond me


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