• WanderWisley@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    I’ve commented this recently on another instance, but I do believe all of these crazy Pizza gate QAnon conspiracies are connected to Epstein. My theory is that we know that Epstein and Gislaine were close friends with the creator of 4 Chan. I believe that they were the ones who started the Pizza gate QAnon, etc., but then they slipped in a little bit of their personal human trafficking reality in between the whole taking children’s blood and sacrificing it so that if or when they ever are caught, and their world is exposed, no one would fully believe it was just human trafficking/ rape because everybody’s brain was already broken from the lies of Pizza gate.

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    Rigged elections are a conspiracy law, not a conspiracy theory.

    FPTP. Electoral college. Hanging chads. Gerrymandering. Superdelegates. Disenfranchisement. FPTP again because Jesus Christ why do we keep voting for people who want this.

  • Signtist@bookwyr.me
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    From watching my mom fall into the web of conspiracy theories, I’m pretty confident that most of them don’t actually care about what the truth is, and just want to feel like they’re smarter and better than other people because they can see these made-up intricate connections that supposedly prove the existence of this crazy global coverup that other people completely missed. The complexity is the point; if it’s simple and easy to understand, they can’t claim intellectual superiority for having figured it out.

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    I’m starting to see a big rise in conspiracy theories from the left and it freaks me out. I liked when I knew one side had logic but, it’s all fucked now.

    Release the Epstein files.

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      Release the Epstein files.

      The conspiracy is already in place that the files have been hacked and the photos are fake.

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        Yeah. I knew the Trump administration was doing that the moment they “accidentally” released an ai video of epstein and that post card to Larry Nassar in the files. It was all an excuse to call the files fake news

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    I mean, most of them are based in partial truths and projection.

    Pizzagate was about how the Clintons/Democrats were running a child sex ring under a pizza parlor, when in reality the Epstein was running a child sex ring on an island with some trafficking help from his rich buddies like Trump (and it’s possible Clinton was involved).

    Woke Mind Virus was about how DEI, feminism, and empathy was destroying America, when in reality racism, misogyny, and hate are taking root in young men via the “manosphere”.

    Biden Crime Family was about how Hunter Biden was guilty of tax crimes being covered up by his dad, when in reality Trump and his family are openly fleecing the US Treasury for all it’s got through contracts awarded to friends and family companies, flagrant use of his hotels, and straight up theft and grift.

    Rigged Election was about how millions of illegal immigrants were supposedly casting illegal votes for Democrats, when in reality Musk tried to bribe voters in swing states by offering a $1M lottery to voters casting votes for Trump, and the use of voter suppression tactics via “poll watchers”, “voter ID laws”, gerrymandering, understaffing in poor areas, and more.

    So I can see how some Republicans could be easily confused.

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      Both can be true, Hunter Biden was clearly involved in financial manipulations, as were the Trumps.

      Spoiler alert: there are no heroes, these are all just different types of shit, some with corn, some with nuts, but they are all corrupt shit.

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    Its funny how they thought trump would bring down the deep state and so on. His god damn secretary of finance formerly worked for George fucking Soros, the antichrist of conspiracy theorists.

    The only thing ive been going to reddit is to check out what r/conspiracy is up to and im glad to say the tone has been very anti trump lately

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      The only thing ive been going to reddit is to check out what r/conspiracy is up to and im glad to say the tone has been very anti trump lately

      From what I can remember of times when I peeked at it before, that’s a pretty big shift.

  • IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com
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    I don’t think they are all made up. I think there’s truth in some and that they are laced with crazy bullshit so people ignore them while the real bullshit still goes on.

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      Except that while dangerous and destructive, the CIA is constantly fucking up.

      They can topple a government, but generally have little to no control what happens next. Hollywood has given people a twisted view of what those assholes are capable of, including the assholes in question themselves.

      It’s blown up in their faces a few times, which I’d cheer for if it didn’t mean a decades long civil war somewhere, or new terrorist organization, or literal Nazi death squads. Sadly I think they counted that last one as a success.

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    Problem is:

    Because one of the biggest conspiracy tales turned out to be a real conspiracy, many people now believe that the others are also real.

    Mind, the best lies are always built around a grain of truth, but that doesn’t make them not lies.

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      Somebody should make version of this, where they take the picture of them together, cut it between them and connect both pieces by a string.

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    UFOs? Roswell? The X Files?

    All of it made up to lead people away from military radio signals and experimental aircraft.

    Paul Bennewitz died in an insane asylum because of it.

    Fuck then for making it not fun anymore.

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    Could chem trails also be on that board?

    Because I think they’re leaking to other countries. My brother in law doesn’t even speak English, is a Trump supporter saying the media blames him for everything, and says the government is poisoning us with chem trails.

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      there was one or two states who were looking to make “chemtrails” illegal. Man, I hope that shit happens, because i believe chemtrails are essentially just clouds, so they’d be making clouds illegal.