Do you believe in conspiracy theories?

[smahala1991]

I believe in two. One is I believe LBJ had something to do with the JFK and RFK assassinations. The other is I believe the Royal family had something to do with Princess Diana's death.

[stepyo99]

I think most conspiracies are either true or at least have a nugget of truth to them. Often what happens is that the oddball stuff is what gets media promotion and the real issues get actively or passively censored.

For instance 5G causing covid is nutty and is what everybody thinks of, but 5G not getting any real long-term testing for health effects is real and passively censored because nobody mentions it.

Then there's Israel's involvement with 9/11 which media actively passes off as an anti-semitic conspiracy theory, but the reality is there was a FOIA request that released the photographs of the Mossad agents taking pictures of the twin towers that day. Eye witness reports said they were jumping around with joy. Of course, the released documents had been photocopied repeatedly so many times that you can't make out anything more than faint outlines.

Then there's contrails and weather manipulation that's passed off as nutty, but it's trivially easy to find businesses that perform cloud seeding as a service.

Everybody used to think the government spying on our communications was a nutjob conspiracy theory but Snowden has made it impossible to deny that not only is it real, but it's just as invasive and all-encompassing as even the wackiest conspiracy theorist said it was.

Operation sea spray was when the US government released bacteria into the air above San Francisco to test the effects of biological warfare on its own unsuspecting citizens. These and similar studies were conducted across the country.

You can go on and on with these. MK Ultra, the Tuskegee Syphilis experiments, the Lavon Affair, Operation Mockingbird, Family Jewels, the Church Committee investigations into the US intelligence community's rogue operations against American citizens and public officials, etc.

And these are just the conspiracies that are readily available to find on wikipedia. The real juicy stuff is much more harshly censored.

[Effably]

I think anyone would be silly to answer that with yes or no. Of course most conspiracy theories are silly and made up. However some have also proven to be entirely true.

To me the simple fact that it has been ridiculed to the point of having its own belittling term is proof we shouldn't completely ignore them all.

[Whatthefluff]

I usually don’t, because I find they tend to go off of logical fallacies like correlation=causation or confirmation bias. You can manipulate any narrative into something that suggests an alternate motive or origin, but the simplest and, likely, most monotone of explanations is most likely.

[Whatthefluff]

All the same, I don’t believe in trusting the media at face value. I believe the media may produce some semblance of fact, but they pander by only covering stories that promote their agenda or values while ignoring others. Think: the genocide of Uighur Muslims in China.

[Whatthefluff]

It’s really hard to say these days what to believe. Like Papa Roach: “who do you trust? Most logical way to reply is “no one but myself. But if you look at things through evidence and whatever true “logic” you can garner from a situation, the more likely you are to get closer to the truth. I also think that anything that has good and bad things to say about both sides, rather than victimize one side and angelisize the other, is better for it.

[jennifer_bloom]

Most people I talk to believe that Princess Diana was killed by the royals but I don't believe it, it just seems too cruel for a Queen who seemed so kind in public.

[Pudsmucker]

A lot of people think LBJ had something to do with JFK's assassination. LBJ also had something to do with screwing up our social security system that we have today.

We sure have a lot of crooked people running our government.

[FunkyMonkee]

That's kind of an oxymorobn because most conspiracy theories are actually facts!

[msc545]

I think 911 was caused by the US government as a "false flag" operations to have an excuse to start a war in the middle east, and I also believe that John Kennedy was killed by the US right wing.

[exitseven]

No, but I believe that there have been conspiracies.

[ChiTown33]

No. But I do enjoy the elaborate fantastical places people's minds go to. 😂

[gorydetails]

I’m running out of conspiracy theories. They’ve all come true.

[LB0412]

Yes I believe in many have have got me to start looking into more things and creating my own.

[doctorwhofan23]

I guess Epstein didn't kill himself.

[disgustingweebtrash]

Conspiracy theories are just spoilers