• pH3ra@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    My own personal conspiracy theory is that Flat Earthers, Anti-vaxxers and all the other “Facebook boomer” conspiracies are just a strategy to discredit other “more real” conspiracies: if you believe that 9/11 was an inside job you’re bundled with people that believe that Earth is a frisbee and smart people don’t want that so they keep themselves from exploring anything else.
    Also aliens fucked apes and that’s how we got here.

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    10 months ago

    Just because conspiracies likely do happen on a regular basis doesn’t mean that any popular conspiracy theory has found one.

    Remember, the big conspiracies like Watergate or the NSA leaks where not uncovered by conspiracy theorists. They where not uncovered by cherry-picking factoids from public government statements and “doing ones own research” aka using Google. They were uncovered by whistleblowers speaking out and journalists double-checking and following up on information they were given.

    As a side note — the poor boy with this scumbag father who constantly lies to him.