Conspiracy Theories With A Surprising Amount Of Evidence To Back Them Up
Reddit user Specific_Shop_3975 asked: 'What’s a conspiracy with the most evidence to back it up?'
We've all heard our fair share of conspiracy theories, and whether or not we truly believe them, we can agree that they're fun to think about.
But there are some that are more sinister than others, and some that are far too applicable to simply ignore.
Redditor Specific_Shop_3975 asked:
"What's a conspiracy with the most evidence to back it up?"
The Sinking of RMS Lusitania
"The British government deliberately put the RMS Lusitania in harm's way to get her sunk to bring the USA into WW1. The fact the records have been resealed for another 100 years adds credence to this conspiracy."
- Blackmore_Vale
"Dude, it's not even a conspiracy theory. The German consulate took out a two-page ad in the New York Times telling people to not board because they were going to sink it."
"Also at the time Britain didn't have an option but to sell the ship because it was carrying so many munitions that they desperately needed. This isn't a conspiracy theory; it's just plain fact."
"Both governments knew the risks and they needed it to galvanize support."
- hagantic42
Not So Sweet Candy Stores
"In the UK, there was a recent boom in American sweet shops that sold grossly overpriced import candy. They were suddenly everywhere after the pandemic, they didn’t sell much, but they were everywhere."
"Someone on TikTok theorized that they were all money laundering fronts, so people started filming in the shops laughing at the prices, and staff always seemed to get really angry about it."
"Then it was announced last year that there was an HMRC (UK’s tax wing of government) investigation started because the theory held water, and suddenly they all shut down."
"The one in Leeds Centre near Trinity currently has a notice of abandonment in the window and you can see the shelves are still stocked: the owners just ran off and left it."
"Sounds like another successful case for the TikTok detectives."
- fearthe0cean
What's Behind the Price of a Piece of Art
"Modern art is just money laundering."
"Nobody pays 2.2 million for a blank canvas."
- Poultry_Master123
"The brilliance of modern art money laundering can't be understated."
"Alfred wants to pay Brad $100k for a bribe."
"Brad wants this money to be 'clean' to avoid authorities looking into him."
"Brad 'sells' a worthless modern art piece for $100k."
"Alfred has now successfully transferred the bribe to Alfred. However, Brad is now in possession of a painting that the 'market' says is worth $100k. Down the line, Alfred might be able to sell this now 'valuable' piece of art to a third party for $50k, $100k, or potentially at a profit!"
"It can get even more complex when the artist is basically a part of the money laundering ring. This makes it so that Brad can fictionally increase the cost of buying the art from the artist in the first place in order to make the money laundering less obvious."
- Zigxy
Why So Many Options?
"There is something fishy going on at Mattress Firm. How can they stay in business with a store in practically every plaza when the average person buys a new mattress every decade or so?"
- PWcrash
Quite the Distraction
"Might not be a 'conspiracy theory' per se. But I believe that the government works hard to cover up their own incompetence."
"Part of that is manufacturing insane conspiracy theories as a way to make anyone who asks questions look crazy. Or at least to serve as a distraction."
- ButtFarquad66
A Conspiracy Is a Conspiracy
"The meta-conspiracy to convince dumb people that the word 'conspiracy' means 'a crazy person’s imagination.'"
"Conspiracies happen every day. There’s a global conspiracy of adults to convince kids Santa is real. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it’s a conspiracy."
"Somewhere along the line, the word got hijacked and it immediately discredits whoever says it. It’s practically a trap to use the word, so you have to dance around it if you want to describe people planning things in secret."
- Bob_the_peasant
Widely Discredited
"The government deliberately leaked false information to UFO investigators to discredit them because they were getting too close to the truth."
"(The truth being that Area 51 was a testing grounds for spy planes and stealth aircraft and was attracting too much attention for a secret weapons facility.)"
- 4thofeleven
"I think the government does this with conspiracy theories across the board. Promoting outlandish tinfoil hat-type theories helps discredit the ones that are actually real."
- QUINNFLORE
Another Money Laundering Front
"Benetton is a front for Italian mob money laundering."
"Probably wasn't at first back in the 80s but now... decent-sized stores in expensive real estate all over Europe, never anyone in the stores, never seen anyone wearing the clothes, don't know anyone that's bought anything from them, ever, and neither do those people."
- Bannedin_3_2_1
"I shop there all the time, in both Italy and Switzerland. It’s the highest quality for the most reasonable price that I can regularly find in Europe. I’m never the only one in there or checking out, either."
- AdultDisneyWoman
"Sounds like something a money launderer would say."
- kjm16216
Residential Monopoly
"Blackrock and Vanguard are buying up all the residential property they can in order to get the majority of Americans renting from them. Estimates say by 2030 they will own 60% of residential property."
- smartsapants
"I so wish we could all stop fighting about dumb sh*t for just a few weeks so both sides of the country could pass a law that bans any corporation or non-US citizen from owning residential property(with some provisions to account for things like bank loans obviously)."
"This would have such a massive effect on quality of life going into the future. Of course, it won’t happen."
- ternic69
People of Influence Parties
"The Bilderberg group. Every year in summer, they meet, and people keep track of who is there. Guest lists every year. Top politicians, royalty, corporate owners. Extreme security. No protocols."
"There is confirmation from a variety of these people that they were there."
"So, what do they talk about? Are they coordinated somehow after each meeting? How much influence do they have?"
"Well, given the extreme security, it's difficult to say. I am sure it's nothing, though. Why would those groups of people want to influence the world to suit their agendas, right?"
"Also note, anyone discussing this gets called a tin foil hat, or paranoid, or a conspiracy theorist who probably also believes in antivaxx reptilian....."
- Common-Wish-2227
Secret Climate Change
"The petroleum companies knew burning fossil fuels would lead to global climate change but hid the evidence of their own funded studies and did nothing to curb consumption, instead funded groups opposed to renewable, non-greenhouse gas generating energy to maximize shareholder value."
- 85_Draken
The Travels of Elvis Presley
"Elvis didn’t die in 1977. He was working with the government (DEA OR CIA? I can’t remember?). When he was compromised they had to fake his death."
"He actually moved to Argentina and lived the rest of his life down there."
"There were a lot of sightings. My favorite is when one of his house workers reported someone that looked just like him lying out by the pool at his own house the day after he died."
"It’s a fun theory that is pretty convincing the more you look into it."
- Affectionate-Win-788
Conspiracies All the Way Down
"People believe all the governments in the world have collaborated on keeping the shape of the Earth and our inability to visit the Moon a secret..."
- draculamilktoast
"But what about the turtle we are sitting on?"
- KAG25
"More importantly, what about the turtle THAT turtle is sitting on?"
- Hym3n
Intentionally Divisive
"That our governments are turning us all against each other to distract us from the blatant wealth manipulation, corrupt practices, nepotism, cronyism, among hundreds of other big issue things. Their plans working a treat and the people as a whole can't see what's happening and start working together against it."
"We are losing our privacy, our rights, and our sense of connection with one another. We drift away while they get more and more powerful. People hand away their rights like they're going to get them back and never question it when it's not."
"Our planet had to deal with another of the world power's attempts at control and that's the pandemic or should I say the reaction to it. I was always a believer it happened naturally but as time goes on it becomes more apparent it wasn't."
"We are bodies hanging from the roof being bled dry slowly but if this keeps up we aren't just f**ked like a world war or nuclear war, if we don't do anything we will lose whatever control we have and we will never get it back."
- Magic_Kushroom
From interesting and wowing to deeply troubling, there's truly no shortage of conspiracies and conspiracy theories out there for people to puzzle over and research.
The most troubling thing about them, honestly, has to be the stigma surrounding a person's interest in them. As soon as someone expresses interest in one of these theories, others are quick to discredit them.
On a daily basis, I find myself saying... "Well, now I've heard it all."
And for a few moments I believe it.
Then I watch the news or overhear a conversation at Starbucks and then I'm stunned again.
The conspiracy bug has bitten everybody.
For some, the more off the wall, the more sense it makes.
Redditor LatsaSpege wanted to hear what "out there" ideas people are listening to.
"What is the weirdest conspiracy theory you ever heard?"
At this point, what people believe can't shock me.
Crumble
Looking The Amazing Race GIF by CBSGiphy"All rocks are soft until you touch them."
vladz7
"Salt isn't the only edible rock but science won't let us lick the other ones."
I_RATE_BIRDS
"inflation, right?"
"This one time i was dealing with a customer. I tell him the price of his groceries and he gasps, go 'inflation, right?' Just small talk. He then goes on some looooong rant about how Joe Biden is pocketing all the extra dollars we spend due to inflation and how he's slowly building his wealth to purchase Apple so he can spy on us through our phones... The funniest part? We're in Montreal, Canada."
SomeBoredGuy77
Transplant
"Jim Morrison (of the Doors) faked his own death. (wait for it)..."
By having his soul transplanted into another body who adopted the moniker 'Jim Jones' (the leader of the Jonestown cult)."
sheikhyerbouti
"I believe wholeheartedly that Jim Morrison faked his own death. But I also believe that he died a few months later because he drunk himself to death."
Galaxy_Ranger_Bob
Land Below
"My favorite is that Lizard People live underneath the north pole and they helped build Denver International Airport. But there might also be separate camps of lizard people with different goals. In short... Lizard People."
21pacshakur
"That airport gave me weird vibes to begin with. The creepy horse statue with glowing red eyes, the trains that play weird music, the fact that it looks like a giant circus tent... the conspiracies just make it more fun!"
TrashPandaAntics
Death Bringer
Stephen King GIFGiphy"That Stephen King killed John Lennon. Some dude has devoted his life to this one and drives around the country in a van festooned with signs declaring King's guilt."
piercelyndale
Stephen King? The assassin? Um... ok.
Death Control
Guitar Man Trouble GIF by Elvis PresleyGiphy"That both Elvis and JFK faked their deaths, and have been running the US government from a secret bunker under the White House ever since."
Banthalo
No exceptions...
"The one they talked about on a recent episode of QAnon Anonymous is pretty weird. Apparently, these people think that every celebrity and politician is actually the opposite gender they were assigned at birth. No exceptions. Even Kaitlyn Jenner, who they think is a woman pretending to be a trans woman. I don't get it either."
SergeantChic
Civilizations
"That the moon landings are fake. But that when we went to the moon the astronauts secretly found a civilization of aliens living there. And that the moon is a hologram projected into the sky from the Earth. I have heard all three of these from the exact same person."
"She is incapable of feeling the discomfort of cognitive dissonance while holding these three contradictory ideas in her head at all. When confronted by the inconsistencies, she refuses to acknowledge that there are any inconsistencies."
Galaxy_Ranger_Bob
Tribes
"I grew up in a white nationalist cult that believed that white people were a lost tribe of Israel, and were God's true chosen people. Naturally, zionists conspired to suppress the truth, and must be toppled. Maybe not the weirdest, but it's pretty freaking weird."
love_is_an_action
"That is interesting because a buddy of mine and I ran into a guy once who believed the exact same thing except about black people, not white people. I'm Asian and my buddy is black. The dude stared at me like I just kicked his dog and was telling my buddy all about how they were God's chosen. It was very weird."
agreeingstorm9
Off the Edge
New Girl Facepalm GIF by HULUGiphy"Flat earth. Like… wouldn’t we know where the edges are by now? Maybe build some hotels to look at space… like oceanfront property. People are freaking stupid."
financialfreeabroad
Wow. Humans are ridiculous.
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The UFO crash art Area 51.
Marisa Tomei didn't actually win the Oscar.
QAnon.
These are only a handful of outrageous, some might even say ridiculous, conspiracy theories which continue to be spread across America, and which people continue to believe.
Though some of these cases have been debunked by scientific evidence, people still continue to believe them, and will simply refuse to hear otherwise.
Redditor reddituser1234543216 was curious to learn which far out conspiracy theories people still continue to believe, leading them to ask:
"What is the weirdest conspiracy theory that you believe in?"
The truth about fossil fuels
"The fossil fuels industry caused the historic and current fear mongering surrounding nuclear energy."
"Then they blamed it on 'liberal hippies' so future leftists would look back and think nuclear energy wasn't a good idea."
"Agents of the fossil fuels industry caused the Three-Mile Island incident and the poor government handling following the incident so Americans would forever be overly concerned about the nuclear energy industry."- DairyNurse
It all just seems too convenient.
"I am really partial to the alleged connection between mattress sales shops and money laundering."
"There are far too many than seems rational."- Cambridgecoffeepot
Theft of intellectual property!
"Oreo stopped selling their Thins mint flavor because the girls couts put the squeeze on them for making a better version of their most popular cookie."- DevilsDrumbum
Girl Scouts Cookie GIF by Girl Scouts of the USAGiphyDid he really think he'd make it in the Major League?
"Jordan played minor league baseball to serve a suspension from NBA for gambling."- WastedKnowledge
The epitome of "smooth criminal".
"DB Cooper got his money and went back to work on Monday morning as if nothing happened."
"And the guy was such a milquetoast nondescript blank of a man in real life that no one noticed."- Gemmabeta
How many are out there?
"I just find it odd I haven't heard a peep about human cloning since we cloned a sheep, internationally agreed it was a bad idea to clone humans, and then never talked about it again."- ronintalken
Animation Character GIF by Greg GunnGiphyAn interesting point to ponder...
"When was the last time you bought tin foil?"
"Not aluminum foil, actual tin foil."
"I bet it's been quite some time."
"It's somewhat difficult to find without special looking for it, and costs substantially more than tin foil."
"WHY is it harder and more costly to get? "
"Because if you can't buy tin foil, you can't make tin foil hats."
"And if you can't make tin foil hats, the government can get into your head and know what you looked at in incognito mode..."- stryph42
Even more exciting than the MCU!
"The theory of the Schurverse basically it proposes that: 'The Office', 'Parks and Rec', 'Brooklyn 99', and 'The Good Place' all exist in the same universe because they were all worked on by Michael Schur."
"It also states that all the reoccurring actors between the shows are people living out their lives to become good enough to get into the good place."- buffkirby
It's all a government cover up!
"I think the government is responsible for some of the wilder conspiracy theories so that some of the marginally less wild but true ones are discounted equally."- bigsim
Always Sunny Reaction GIFGiphyThink twice before mailing it off!
"Those DNA Ancestry companies are just a front for the FBI to store bio history on everyone."- unassum1ng
They're everywhere!
"Scam syndicate."
"Last year a family friend was scammed out of a large amount of money."
"I decided to investigate."
"In doing so, I allegedly uncovered a crime syndicate run by the world's largest Christian doomsday cult."
"The cult recruits members in foreign countries under the guise of missionary work, trains them through American-based online computer training programs and lavishes them in cars, clothes and cash."
"Meanwhile, in the US, they use a large network of members to data mine, collect money from victims and launder money through LLC's and current businesses."
"After discovering this operation, and while using family tracking apps, I noticed forced IMEI microcell interactions and numerous newly established microcells that tether to and geo-locate my phone."
"The suspicion is members have surveillance on my travels, internet activity and home life to intercept any communication with law enforcement or outside organizations."
"The community in which I live has a large enclave of members and businesses within the cult."
"I have reported to the FBI and local police."
"It has gone no further."
"Right now, informing as many investigators is my only recourse."
"As crazy as this reads, and as serious the allegations, it's as real as things get."
"I'm glad to stumble upon this if it stops folks from being scammed, but I do not know how long me or my family stay safe with this knowledge."
"It's as close and imminent as across the street."- HELLEREDDIT·
Vibing Red Alert GIF by VibeheadsGiphyDon't believe everything you see.
"The moon landing really happened...but the photos are fake."
"I don't 100% believe this, I just feel it's the most likely to be true."
"If you go through security now in 2022, there will still be a sign advising anyone with rolls of film to let security know, because the minor radiation from the x-ray machine will damage the film."
"Scott Kelley the astronaut wrote in his book that he got the equivalent of 10 chest x-rays a day while on the ISS."
"The theory is that after 8 days of exposure to solar radiation, the film used by Apollo 11 was ruined and unusable, so NASA had, Or as a precaution, already had, fake photos produced in their place."- FLICKGEEK1
They start so young.
"I believe that my brother steals money from me when i sleep."
'Most evidence i got is from my mom."- Xcross8769
Why else would it spread so quickly?
"Viruses and some of the illnesses are human made and purposefully spread."
'The pharmaceutical and medical fields have stay in business somehow."
"Also if the Universe is infinite, there have to be aliens somewhere.'
"We can't be the only inhabited planet."- grumpycoffeee
We are not alone...
"That we are a big sh*t show for alien tv."- AndreMichel
x files GIF by The X-FilesGiphyThe "cloud" is bigger than we think...
"That my data is save using Facebook."- IIITysonIII
The Lost City will be found one day!
"I believe in lots of what can be called conspiracy theories, but my craziest is that I kinda think Atlantis was real in some way."- skarodegradation
Some would say it makes more sense...
"I don't believe in it but I think it doesn't sound too far-fetched."
"The many children Elon Musk has with many women are clones of him."- throwaway220408
Elon Musk Reaction GIF by Saturday Night LiveGiphyThe truth is out there...
And yet people still choose to believe all this!
In this world, there are many things that don't have a rational explanation. Why is it we don't have any of the original footage from the moon landing? What happened to Amelia Earhart? How many of the things we believe to be true are really cover-ups?
Not having the answers to questions like these lead to conspiracy theories. I have always believed that the Bermuda Triangle sucks objects into other dimensions. Why else would there be so many disappearances in that area?
Some conspiracy theories are really crazy, but others are pretty plausible.
Curious about those theories, Redditor Meddling_Pickles asked:
"What conspiracy theory do you genuinely believe?"
It's All His Fault
"That Adam ate the apple first and blamed it on Eve, thus the Adam's Apple."
– keirden
Cause of Death
"Dorothy Killgallen, the only journalist who had an interview with Jack Ruby, was killed by the CIA in her sleep"
– crazeyawesomettv
"It wouldn't surprise me at all. It wouldn't surprise me if Jack Ruby turned out to be hired by the CIA. Or Oswald, for that matter."
– KidsTheseDaysYknow
"Marilyn Monroe was murdered, or it was involuntary manslaughter"
– PersonalityLost5228
It Was Rigged I Tell You!
"Ever since Alex Trebek left Jeopardy, there has been this sudden and convenient "rise of the superstars" where contestants are getting very long win streaks, far more than what we used to see on the show. I think Jeopardy is rigging their contestant selection process to artificially increase the likelihood of long win streaks in order to boost ratings."
– Firree
Dangerous Ego
"Trump never wanted to be president. Looking at it through the lense of a man who doesn't want to be there, but has far too much ego to admit it, makes the way he handled his time in office make waaaay more sense than any other explanation. And his ego is so big he'll still run again."
– chariotherr
Cookie Thief
"That despite what my roommate says, she’s eating my food when I leave the house. I had 17 Oreos when I left, I came back to 15."
– Apprehensive_Oven924
Hard Truths
"gogurt is just yogurt"
– Thugger4L
"no. no….. i refuse to believe this. source? citations? please send me your bibliography in MLA format"
– TheGoddessHylia
The More You Use
"Chapstick provides instant relief, then makes you lips more chapped so that you have to keep using it."
– LorryToTheFace
"This is accurate and similar to pledge furniture polish that actually increases the amount of dust on the furni"
– Pow4991
Disney Is A Snowman
"Earth is flat"
"Just kidding"
"Probably the one I could believe is the one that says that Disney is frozen until they can find a cure for him, and that the movie Frozen was only made so if people searched Disney Frozen, the movie would appear instead of the theory"
– kcyccyck
Aliens
"Roswell New Mexico crash was in fact aliens."
"Only conspiracy I believe."
"But maybe cause it was the first one I discovered as a kid. And I loved aliens."
– Champion-of-the-Sun5
"Idk if this is a conspiracy theory, but I believe aliens could be real. After all, if our planet can support life why can't others? I think if they are real then we have a way greater advantage due to our advanced technology and stuff like that. But who knows."
– SpencerTheMenace
"That aliens exist. Now I know that makes me sound like some buffoon but hear me out. The Universe is 46.507 light years and there’s still more out there, out of the trillions of planets in the universe we are the only life forms? Sound crazy to me."
– DarthGolrath
The Never-Ending War
"Cold War has never finished and is still going on to this day."
– Mrgray123
"I believe that the Cold War never ended. Otherwise we wouldn't still be spying on each other. You think that the Russians hacked the election just for shits and giggles? No, they wanted us to get into a civil war, and Trump was the perfect candidate to divide our nation. Our military budget is the highest in the world and if Russia were to cause a rift between us, it would be that much easier to either take us over, or make sure we didn't interfere with whatever plans they have, including expanding its borders. If their plans for invading Ukraine and attacking Finland would succeed, there's the chance it will attack others until it eventually took over Europe. With their country getting bigger and bigger, we would get smaller and smaller until Russia delivers the killing blow. When they say, 'divide and conquer,' they mean divide and conquer!"
– N0nethelesser
That last one is so true to modern life!
The term conspiracy theory has a negative connotation, but they are around to explain the unexplainable. To give us an answer when no one else can provide one.
And who knows? These could all be true.
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Life is really at a crazy point.
I mean every day you watch the news and wonder if it's written by "The Onion" or if we're living in SNL sketches.
Or even worse, our dystopian books of yesteryear were correct all along.
Conspiracy theorists. We laughed at them.
Mocked them. And as it turns out... they were the actual prophets.
I'm exaggerating, but not by light-years.
Redditor SpecificallyNerd wanted to hear about what so called "unreal bonkers" idea turned out to be true. They asked:
"What were the conspiracy theorists right about?"
I figure that conspiracy theories are like gossip magazines, there is a morsel of truth somewhere.
Oh Norma Jean...
marilyn monroe hello GIFGiphy"Marilyn Monroe was being spied on by... everyone. Seriously. When another owner of her former residence decided to renovate, the number of wires and bugging they found was astounding."
MidorBird
What's Due
"Propaganda Due: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Due. Propaganda Due, an Italian masonic lodge that included many high profile people like Berlusconi, the house of Savoy pretender to the throne, heads of secret services, bankers, religious figures etc."
"The stuff they were up to is insane, and also resulted in the government of Italy passing a law prohibiting secret societies. They were behind journalist murders, press takeover, government policy, bombings etc. They had an organized plan to effectively take over Italy and rewrite the constitution."
emix75
'undesirables'
"There were, in fact, incidents where 'undesirables' (certain races, disabled people, etc) were sterilized without their consent, going back as far as the 1800s. And there are still allegations of this happening, today."
TheRealPyroGothNerd
We See You
"PRISM :- Turns out the government was spying on you. There is a deluge of information from millions of people so while the government may have your data there isn't someone actively looking at it. Should you get yourself noticed by the government however, I'm sure they can filter through that trash very quickly."
Kaiserhawk
"ECHELON was public knowledge for decades, people are just too lazy to read and too stupid to understand that spy agencies are paid to spy."
Realistic_Truck
SOS
Looking Back Britney Spears GIFGiphy"They were right about Britney..."
Rex_Lee
"Ms. Spears posted weird videos on instagram, seemingly normal at first glance but extremely creepy and weird the more you watch them. Some people said she was calling for help."
Swawks
God Bless Ms. Spears. We did it! She's free!
News Everywhere...
daily news GIF by CLGiphy"Operation Mockingbird. The 'news' is the same everywhere even the local news."
Dismal_Scale_8604
"I remember seeing a compilation of different news stations with the EXACT same speech, the video would cut from anchor to anchor but the monologue was seamless."
Flightless_Rocket
Murder
"The FBI did want Martin Luther King Jr dead . They may not have put a gun in James Earl Ray's hands, but they were happy with the outcome."
huncamuncamouse
"I had a professor who worked on that FBI team. Told us lots of stories of the phone calls that they had tapped, the notes/threats they sent MLK, things they sent to MLK's wife, etc."
Quesabirria
"I've had a longstanding theory that the government has been involved in the death of almost every civil rights advocate in American history, including MLK Jr., JFK, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, and Eazy-E."
Gabzop
In the paperwork...
"Pretty much everything in the Panama Papers was part of one conspiracy theory or another and they were all proved pretty much right."
DisownedByMother
"The point is that the Panama Papers pulled the wool back even further to show how the ultra wealthy is robbing the rest of us blind through tax evasion. People around the globe unnecessarily live in misery and even die because some morons don't want to be a tad less rich by paying their taxes. This is very tangible harm, it's immoral, and in most cases blatantly illegal."
"Meanwhile, people get distracted by finger-pointing about the occasional strange sighting of something zipping around in the atmosphere. This is worthy of more investigation, but it should not take priority over the thievery of the masses that causes pain and suffering. The elites love it when people focus on UFOs instead of issues that actually impact us all."
YorockPaperScissors
Ops
"Not officially confirmed as far as I know, but I think Gary Webb was likely correct about the CIA flooding black neighborhoods with crack in the 1980s to fund thier ops in Nicaragua. This was covered in his book series 'Dark Alliance.' He was later found with two gunshots to his head and his death was ruled a suicide."
DanishWonder
They Knew
season 2 hair flip GIF by PortlandiaGiphy"The 1960 weed-smoking hippies complaining about the rising police state and the federal surveillance programs? We owe them a whopper of an apology."
Uriel-238
Rinse. Lather. Repeat.
"Effective lies require repetition. Repeat a lie enough times, from multiple sources. From trusted sources. People will start to believe it is true."
croc_socks
"This isn't always true, sometimes you need to support effective lies with false criticisms that actually support the original thesis. That's another way to subtly repeat the lie, but also make it seem critical, and through that repetition, from multiple sources, including falsely critical sources, people will start to believe it's true."
TacticalDM
Not for me...
"Remember: it isn't a left vs right issue. It is a top vs bottom issue."
"Edit: What I mean is it is those in power (top) vs those not in power (bottom). It is completely off balance with the majority of us being on the bottom and subject to those up top. 'Rules for three, but not for me.' Divided we fall. Whatever division we choose to quarrel about doesn't help the top vs bottom problem."
ndividualistic
In Cahoots
"MKUltra like someone above said, the FBI seeking out mentally disturbed people to help them plan attacks so they can arrest them right before they carry it out, COINTELPRO, Operation Northwoods and literally everything the CIA dabbles in. I also believe most people don't realize the government has worked directly with media companies since at least WW2."
"In an effort to sway public opinion in their favor. Add on the theater of left/right politics, 24hr talk shows posing as news and an executive order allowing the US people to openly be bombarded with harmful propaganda."
No-Statement-9406
Hello?
eavesdropping bel powley GIF by Carrie Pilby The MovieGiphy"Our phones listening to everything."
GayTr4sh
Invasion
"There were no WMDs. The US government used that lie as an excuse to invade Iraq in the early 2000s."
CutEmOff666
"Google 'Project for a New American Century' if you want to understand why they invaded. They weren't after Iraq's oil, it was a stupid plan to 'democratize' the region and make it friendly and safe for US business and military presence."
"Hell, it's not even a conspiracy theory, it's just an example of how clueless Americans can be. They had a website spelling it all out, and the day of 9-11, most of the signatories were in the Bush admin or involved with it."
mcarterphoto
Deep Deep
"That Tor the program that allows access to the Deep Web was owned by the CIA."
PhillHasNoCheese
"This isn’t really a conspiracy lol the deep web was literally created by the military then they realized they need to let the public have it so people won’t know when the government is doing stuff."
PepsiMangoMmm
"Honestly, I assume all encryption services are developed/infiltrated by feds."
HeatAndHonor
World Domination
"This isn't even a conspiracy but BlackRock trying to own the world. It's too much to talk about here but I suggest looking into it."
SweetRart
"BlackRock was able to get loans from The Fed at zero percent interest (overnight loans) which they used to buy up real estate everywhere."
ssjaken
"BlackRock: the company that owns everything and you've probably never heard of it."
Ph1L_474
Stay Still
Media Nick Splat GIF by Hey ArnoldGiphy"The mainstream media has an agenda to keep the status quo in power."
proximalfunk
Destroying Generations
"The CIA put crack in black communities. As a black person you just kind of grow up knowing this. Imagine my surprise when I grew up and found out that this actually happened just like they said. No conspiracy to it. There are tv shows about it now."
IreallEwannasay
She Knew
"Sinead O’Connor was right about the Catholic Church."
Arkady2009
"Could not agree more. She deserves an apology for how she was treated for calling them out. She was RIGHT."
princessangry83
Well there you have it. The truth is out.
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