Conspiracies

[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

[awesomo85@sh.itjust.works]

No. It's not a REAL conspiracy until the 4th Estate says so! They are the ones we should trust without question!

[rockslayer@lemmy.world]

I personally use Voyager, it shows all embedded links individually

[thesohoriots@lemmy.world]

Proverbs for Paranoids

1. You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
2. The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master.
3. If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
4. You hide, they seek.
5. Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.

—Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

[lazynooblet@lazysoci.al]

I don't get the middle statement. If you pick just one, the chance is 5%

[ilovethebomb@lemm.ee]

Unless you're working on something incredibly important, and you can threaten people with jail time if you tell anyone. The US government kept the SR-71 blackbird secret for about a decade, for example.

[listless@lemmy.cringecollective.io]

Corporations would happily use slave labor if that was legal.

Source: The United States prior to 1865

[stuffyoufear@lemmy.world]

Sync shows contents of links(can see the youtube video above) and will give you a warning if it links to rickroll

[periodicallypedantic@lemmy.ca]

Looks like Big Math got to you

[periodicallypedantic@lemmy.ca]

True, but also I feel like that's small potatoes by comparison.

And also I feel like it's related to the publicity of the thing that is supposedly a conspiracy. with the sr71 nobody even knew to look into it; with the moon landing, people were following the very public demonstrations every step of the way.

[cruxifux@feddit.nl]

Yeah. Pretty much anywhere slavery is legal will use slaves. Our system rewards people for destroying society.