The most destructive one I've seen has been the anti-vax crowd. Almost feels like a state actor trying to gaslight the world.
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Deep State
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_conspiracy_theory_in_the_United_States -
The moon landing was fake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_conspiracy_theories -
Proof of aliens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_conspiracy_theories
There is so much material out there from people in the CIA itself telling how the cannon of all this stuff is them making people believe that shit, e.g. area 51 to distract from actual weapon testing. -
Anti-vaxx and other covid related stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_misinformation -
Chemtrails
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory
Covid must have multiple but I don't remember hearing about any concrete ones.
I remember "Covid was a Chinese bioweapon" being popular, alongside "Covid is fake and just an excuse for the government to inject us with 5G microchips"
The "bioweapon" thing really triggers me. Even if that were true, these racists be attacking anyone that looks Chinese and blame literal civillians for something that a government allegedly did. Absolutely insane.
If someone mentions "Covid" and "Bioweapon" in the same sentence, I'll gonna keep my distance because I afraid to get attack by a bunch of Karens/Kens for how I look.
I was scratching my head about this "vaccination with 5G chips" when I heard it. Apart from not being feasible, I was wondering where they got this absurd idea from.
Until I stumbled over a product: You can buy syringes with embedded RFID chips. That you can use to track "best before" dates and lot numbers with. Or one can check if they forgot one inside the patient after a surgery. It has, of course, nothing to do with the contents of the syringes, and of course it is not 5G but NFC/RFID. But yea, for the stupid and confused this is close enough.
That’s because it got mixed up with the very real and muddy “lab leak vs natural jump” debate.
Popular conspiracy theories according to me:
- Fluoridation of municipal water supplies is some evil government program to disperse drugs / chemicals
- Roswell was an alien UFO crash, the aliens / craft are being kept at Area 51.
- JFK was not assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald alone. He was killed by the CIA / 2nd shooter on the grassy knoll.
- Moon landing was faked
- Condensation trails (contrails) from high altitude aircraft are actually chemicals being dispersed by the government (chemtrails)
- The Earth (and only the Earth, not the Sun, moon, other planets) is a flat disc.
- Automakers have cars that run on water but they refuse to sell them to protect the oil industry.
- Global warming / climate change is a hoax to sell solar / wind / hydro power.
- Big pharma / doctors have all the cures but they're not selling them to keep you sick & them rich
- 9/11 was an inside job (planned by George W. Bush)
- COVID-19 vaccines deposited secret microchips in the population
JFK was not assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald alone. He was killed by the CIA / 2nd shooter on the grassy knoll
Actually no one killed him. His head just did that.
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I like the theory that suggests that JonBenét Ramsey wasn't killed, and was instead kidnapped and secretly raised by her captors to be a singer, and grew up to become Katy Perry.
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My least favorite one is ancient aliens, because it is both inspired by Carl Sagan and inspired a ton of sci fi especially Stargate, but it’s also just white supremacy with extra steps.
I’m so conflicted.
How is ancient aliens inspired by Carl Sagan?
He wrote a book in the 60s that kind of suggested it was a possibility, but then walked it back within a few years and criticized people who latched on to it.
Intelligent Life in the Universe is the book.
He also wrote about this in Broca's Brain
9/11 was an inside job. There’s a belief that elements within the U.S. government orchestrated the attacks.
I think the US government knew about it, maybe not exactly orchestrated it, but they intentionally allowed it to happen to justify expanding powers.
I mean like... I only believe this 60% true, there's 40% of me that think government is just this incompetent.
I think even that gives them too much credit. It’s just incompetence.
The US “did 9/11” by interfering with global affairs for decades until one of those schemes finally backfired.
I don’t think there’s any conspiracy necessary beyond that to explain everything.
I've seen a clip from a Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) that describes the motive weapons companies could have for it very well, the government wasn't necessarily involved but I believe some of the elite definitely were.
there certainly were a lot of suspiciously timed, and very risky, trades made immediately before the crashes
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Depends.
Birds aren't real is fake, but pretty popular, because it's funny.
Flat earthing is also fake but somehow has a huge following.
Depends are real, the US president wears them
no shit? (pun intended)
He wears a catheter connected to a tube that leads to a urine collection bag tied around his leg.
But he also shits himself regularly. Many people are saying it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Deep state & FBI cover ups of child sex-trafficking rings run by cabals of shadowy elites linked to the unfalsifiable existence of the Epstein files.
Chemtrails
I would guess:
- Moon landing was faked
- Anti-vax stuff.
- The entire scientific community and goverments are making global warming up and hiding evidence to the contrary. Somehow, for some reason.
Popular in media but probably not many actually believe:
- Space aliens are here and goverments somehow are able to hide that. Good luck with that I say.
- The eart is flat and all of academia is teaching the wrong thing. For no reason.
Try selling diamonds jewelary on the second hand market. You'll get the gold value.
Flat Earth, the New World Order, the Illuminati, Jewish space lasers, Democrats/ Jews controlling the weather. MLK being killed by the government could be considered one, but, well. You know. All the classics.
Chemtrails, trump not being a felon, 5G caused Covid, horse de-wormer covid cure, drinking bleach cures autism, god
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Religion.
I believe many religions are an analogy to the sun, but many people buy into them.
lluminati / New World Order. A secret elite supposedly controls world governments and economies.
I think the only reason this is a conspiracy is because it claims there are shadowy, secret people coordinating their activities and running the world behind the scenes and only the conspiracy theorists will ever be clever enough to figure exactly out who they are.
In reality the political elites and billionaires are already doing exactly that very obviously and in plain sight with zero subtlety, making a public performance out of national relations while regularly meeting and being perfectly cordial and strategizing and horse-trading together behind doors, living a life of wealth and privilege, establishing themselves as minor celebrities and making sure people are always talking about them, and apparently hanging out on tropical islands with child-molesters. We know this is generally factual for very many of them, unless you think all the Wikileaks wires and Epstein files stuff is somehow faked. Unless you just haven't read them. It's pretty fucking clear what's going on in my opinion. No need for a conspiracy to be able to see what's going on in the circles of power. It's not much of a secret anymore.
In reality, an open elite controls world governments and economies.
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Ronan Farrow is the biological offspring of Frank Sinatra, not Woody Allen.
Every construct theory in it's most extreme form always seems to end up antisemitic, so I'd say the antisemitic tropes.
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