Conspiracies

[cm0002@lemmy.world]

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[negativelookbehind@lemmy.world]

Lol the cooperations

[cruxifux@feddit.nl]

They would kill you and everything you love if it meant they’d get more money. Never forget that.

[darkard@lemmy.world]

And you're a fool of you think they ever stopped.

[greenskye@lemm.ee]

It's never that I think they aren't evil enough, I just don't trust conspiracies that require too much competency. I think most of them are too dumb and uncoordinated to pull off most of the conspiracies I hear about.

[naeap@sopuli.xyz]

Yeah, especially the COVID conspiracies are mostly brain dead stuff

The whole world pretty much stopped, which helps absolutely no one, but somehow those guys think, that a dark force is trying to kill the economy for...profit?

Also all the scientists and doctors are together in bed and just want people to stay indoors, because... I have absolutely know clue

It just didn't make sense from the start.

Although I do get scepticism against new vaccine methods, but when someone tries to "explain" to me, that mRNA somehow overwrites my DNA and I should drink bleach instead...I usually don't even know where to start to correct them

[rockslayer@lemmy.world]

The government wouldn't do that!

Oh yes they would

[rockslayer@lemmy.world]

The most believable conspiracies are the ones where it's full of incompetence. Like ZunZuneo

[evil_shrubbery@lemm.ee]

Every fucking time.

It's easy to recognise some super convenient propaganda, or follow the money, but sometimes it's not that simple.

[simplejack@lemmy.world]

If you’ve ever tried to coordinate more than 50 people to do a thing, you quickly realize why people refer to management and leadership jobs as “herding cats.”

If someone gave me the option of faking the moon landing or going to the moon, I’d gladly strap a submarine to a missile.

It be fucking impossible to coordinate hundreds of people on the world’s biggest secret, then make them and their families abide by media training for half a century.

[feathercrown@lemmy.world]

MK Ultra moment

[pugjesus@lemmy.world]

Yeah. Conspiracies feed a need to believe that there's some easy reason why things are fucked. In reality... things are fucked for a great many reasons, and 'evil people in power' is middle of the pack, at best.

[stinky@redlemmy.com]

People still don't believe their tax dollars are being spent to hurt them after being shown these documents.

[zxqwas@lemmy.world]

If 1 in 20 conspiracy theories are correct then you'll be 95% correct if you disbelieve all of them.

If you pick one to believe in you'll be about 90% correct on average.

If you pick 10 you'll be about 50% correct.

[unculturedswine@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Conspiracies and conspiracy theories are two very different things. The reason people scoff at conspiracy theories is because they are often times wrong and/or vague. How many conspiracies actually started as a 'conspiracy theory'.

[steak@lemmy.ca]

I agree but a lot of mom and pop shops shut down and of course walmart and all the big names were still operating the whole time. At least here in Canada

[caboose12000@lemmy.world]

is there a convinient list somewhere of all the times this has happened?

[caboose12000@lemmy.world]

this is unrelated, but do any Lemmy clients have a tool or option to show what a hyperlink is linking too? just had an emunexpected YouTube video blast full volume and feeling very foolish rn

[floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

How many verified conspiracies actually started as a 'conspiracy theory'.

All of them? If you're questioning the official narrative you're "just a conspiracy theorist" until proven right

[naeap@sopuli.xyz]

We didn't need COVID for that

Give it a few years and those shops would be dead anyway - sadly

Small towns here tend to build large shopping centers near town border, which just hungers out local businesses

No need for COVID to accomplish that