A FIGHTER!Jesse Ventura said:
A GOVERNOR!
A NAVY SEAL!
Gulf of Tonkin, boy, that sure is a silly conspiracy theory.
Stupid conspiracys
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A GOVERNOR!
A NAVY SEAL!
Gulf of Tonkin, boy, that sure is a silly conspiracy theory.
Pretty much most of them. There have been "conspiracies" but not in the sense most people who believe in conspiracies think. There was a conspiracy to assassinate Archduke Ferdinand. If you read the historical accounts the first attempts went laughably bad.
The idea that there is someone driving the bus, even it if is off a cliff is more comforting to most people then the thought that the world is a random cruel place. Giving random shooters government backing means there is a logic to it, and not just mental illness.
The idea that there is someone driving the bus, even it if is off a cliff is more comforting to most people then the thought that the world is a random cruel place. Giving random shooters government backing means there is a logic to it, and not just mental illness.
All of them but if I had to list them from worst to meh
-9/11 being an inside job
-Moonlanding was fake
-Earth is flat (Some people still think this is true..)
-Illuminati
-Government taps all our phones/webcams/computers
-James Holmes is not the actual shooter (even though they found him in the parking lot with all the gear)
and the rest are just too stupid to even list.
-9/11 being an inside job
-Moonlanding was fake
-Earth is flat (Some people still think this is true..)
-Illuminati
-Government taps all our phones/webcams/computers
-James Holmes is not the actual shooter (even though they found him in the parking lot with all the gear)
and the rest are just too stupid to even list.
Ah yeah this one. While a conspiracy, I feel there is a smidge of truth to it. In one hand I think if aliens ever did land or try to contact us our government would try to hide it. On the other it's like why the hell would aliens want to study us, we're dumb as hell, and why would the government want to cover it up?Total LOLige said:
Well it may not have been the US government as an act of policy, but it's very possible that individual members of government conspired with the mob to assassinate Kennedy. The CIA and the Mob were very friendly with each other, and Kennedy made enemies with both the CIA and the mob.Kyrian007 said:
There is a mob boss in fact who claims responsibility for Kennedy's death, although he could just be bullshitting to get famous.
You know, I joked with someone about that particular conspiracy.GiglameshSoulEater said:
The events of 9/11 happened just like they did. But all the conspiracies about 9/11 being an inside job and such were actually put forth by the Bush administration, so as to make it seem that they are more devious than they really are[footnote]Also, I thought of this before South Park... SHUT UP, I did!!1![/footnote]...
The whole 9/11 was an inside job thing. People that don't understand much trying to find connections where there are none. "Jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough to melt steel!" No, it doesn't, but it sure as hell is hot enough to destroy it's tensile strength. I'm a firefighter, and I have seen just a normal structure fire make steel bend (in barns, factories, ect). I do like to screw with them and say "What about the stuff they use for chemtrails? Who knows at what temperature that stuff burns!"
Also anything with the masons. They have a meeting hall right across from my ambulance base, and I know most of the people that go in there. These are not powerful and intelligent people. They mostly go because it is a private bar.
Another one that just plane pisses me off: vaccinations. I have seen kids be on death's door because their parents believe it will cause autism. I ask them if they had their vaccinations, and the parents start trying to preach to me about the dangers of them, as if being a paramedic, I know nothing of medicine or human pathology and pathophysiology. I once used a line from House, MD, when he started talking about child size coffins because the child was sick with whooping cough (very serious in infants).
Or the new one, Obama is behind shootings throughout the US. Or that he is a secret muslium, or gay, or not American by birth, or any of the other stupid things they have tried to throw at him (if you don't like his policies, fine, I certainly don't agree with everything he does, but if you must use hyperbole than you have no argument).
Also anything with the masons. They have a meeting hall right across from my ambulance base, and I know most of the people that go in there. These are not powerful and intelligent people. They mostly go because it is a private bar.
Another one that just plane pisses me off: vaccinations. I have seen kids be on death's door because their parents believe it will cause autism. I ask them if they had their vaccinations, and the parents start trying to preach to me about the dangers of them, as if being a paramedic, I know nothing of medicine or human pathology and pathophysiology. I once used a line from House, MD, when he started talking about child size coffins because the child was sick with whooping cough (very serious in infants).
Or the new one, Obama is behind shootings throughout the US. Or that he is a secret muslium, or gay, or not American by birth, or any of the other stupid things they have tried to throw at him (if you don't like his policies, fine, I certainly don't agree with everything he does, but if you must use hyperbole than you have no argument).
Yeah I know. There is even this photo going around comparing his mugshot to some old college photo and they claim they're different people. Even though both shots have different angles, lighting, and uh he has BRIGHT ORANGE HAIR in one. Give me a you rage you lose thread and i'll lose everytime I see that.dfphetteplace said:
Ding! Winner!Hazy992 said:
The JFK one is really interesting, though, because apparently the KGB were actually encouraging people to spread rumors that the Russians did it, to make them seem more powerful. JFK, on the other hand, was a really shitty movie.
My dad and his Mechanic buddies have a wierd one.
They claim that the reason that engines in vehicles have gotten more complicated and harder/near impossible to repair without special tools is because The Big 3 (GM, Ford, Chrystler) got together and decided "Lets make our engines insanely complicated so people have to go to our overpriced, unionized repair shops and cant fix them themselves like they did in the old days."
Other than that, most have been mentioned already.
They claim that the reason that engines in vehicles have gotten more complicated and harder/near impossible to repair without special tools is because The Big 3 (GM, Ford, Chrystler) got together and decided "Lets make our engines insanely complicated so people have to go to our overpriced, unionized repair shops and cant fix them themselves like they did in the old days."
Other than that, most have been mentioned already.
Yeah, whenever people say stuff like that (or that he is a Secret Kenyan Commie Muslim Terrorist), all I have to say to them is "Shut up. There is plenty of ligitimate critisim of him that DOESNT need to devolve into insane conspiracy theories. Now please, shut up. You are making the sane Republicans like me look bad."GunsmithKitten said:
Anybody here ever go on /x/? It can be entertaining just because of how batshit insane everyone there is, some stuff I've heard on there includes "The Fourth Reich's secret all-Aryan city in the Hollow Earth" along with several people claiming they can do magic and enter astral projection at will (that is to separate the soul from the body, I think). I think one of the dumbest ones is the White Supremacist "Jews secretly control everything and are undermining society". Because it's nothing more than a delusion used to justify baseless prejudice.
This. My roommate refuses to see things any other way. He goes all Bill o'Reily on me and tell me I "can't explain that."Yellowbeard said:
My grandmother believes that we are being run by a secret, gay, Jewish, Neo-Nazi, Mexican government. Has sent me literature, and has written the White house about said gay Jewish Neo-Nazi Mexicans. Also she believes that there are Ninjas plotting to kill her, but that's a different matter.
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A friend of my mother's believes that scientists are spraying subways with super-bacteria. It's...... not cute.
The flat earth society believes that the earth is like a giant plate with 500 foot ice walls surrounding the outer rim. The military is stationed at these ice walls prepared to shoot down any plane that will try to fly over the ice wall and outside of the earth because... there's apparently some unknown financial benefit to everyone thinking the earth is round. Also Antarctica does not exist and is instead a myth created to explain the ice wall, and the sun and moon do in fact revolve around the earth, which is not in orbit of anything and instead creates gravity by moving upwards at 9.8 meters per second.