Top Ten Conspiracy Theories

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

1 hour ago, Lee909 said:

The Internet is fucking strange. 

In some ways I love it, I probably have more contact with people on here than in real life,its great for that for me. I don't like being out in big crowds or pubs etc. All the noise from every direction really ducks with my head. I never go out without headphones, except when I used to work days and leave for work at 5am and nobody was about. So it's great way to talk to people and learn. 

 

On the other hand it's the worst thing that's happened to people And completely screwed up so much of people lives. Social media full of absolute cunts and it's done serious damage to general life

I think it's less the internet man, more the complete monopolisation of modes by platforms like FB, Twitter, IG etc. The internet used to be loads of little places, now it's these big platforms supposedly providing little niches, but which can be bought and sold. Echo chambers. The internet at it's best was when you had forums for everything, and none of them hosted on a single monopolising fucking behemoth. They were echo chambers, because you were going to chat - generally amongst people with similar interests, but they were not all linked together with data being fed into AI to be able to manipulate the punter. remember when the works adverts we're pornsite popups? Now you have digital hairs on screen to get people to tap in a space and load or select.

 

It's completely fucked, lacks any kind of regulation., which was the original idea, but that lack of deregulation has allowed the rise of the platforms, probably due to the trend of non-geeks joining the internet. it's too easy to have an app and waive your right to privacy. Fuck taking care of your data, just give me a nice easy app so i can spew forth my bile amongst the 7 billion other inhabitants of this long drop.

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

 

 

[dockers_strike]

46 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

 

 

Put simply he means what if you live in a simulation?

[Bjornebye]

The absolute head-the-ball conspiracy that wearing a mask has zero positive impact when it comes to reducing the spread of a virus. 

[Anubis]

No wonder Q has been a bit quiet since the election, as it appears Jim may have been a bad boy....

 

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/jim-watkins-child-pornography-domains/

 

 

[Anubis]

Oh JFK Jr eh? This must be credible

 

Let’s take a closer look...


 

Oh... it’s a circuit diagram for a guitar amplifier.

 

[Anubis]

[General Dryness]

I for one would welcome the opportunity to internally adjust my tone. Always thought I needed a little more bass.

[Bjornebye]

3 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Thats me convinced. 

[General Dryness]

3 minutes ago, Anubis said:

 

[niallers]

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Whatever happened to chemtrails? Do nobheads still talk about them?

[dockers_strike]

2 hours ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

Whatever happened to chemtrails? Do nobheads still talk about them?

Still up there with the 5G nutters. No pun intended.

[Rico1304]

3 hours ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

Whatever happened to chemtrails? Do nobheads still talk about them?

I know a bloke who is convinced they are real, he’s into every conspiracy going.  He’s a good carpenter though so once a year when I need something doing I can put up with hearing about shape shifting lizards.   

[easytoslip]

The Bible has a few and the Koran, outlandish. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

 

[Rico1304]

https://theconversation.com/how-dangerous-are-conspiracy-theories-listen-to-part-five-of-our-expert-guide-136070

[Anubis]

On 25/06/2018 at 12:35, Anny Road said:

The whole Bigfoot, Sasquatch thing is really quite convincing. Hundreds and hundreds of reported sightings going back centuries all over the world. I don’t usually believe any of these things but this could be real. No reason why not.

Most videos will be faked of course but something certainly could survive in the wilderness.

And so, to Oklahoma...

 

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Weird/wireStory/oklahoma-lawmaker-proposes-bigfoot-hunting-season-75428264?__twitter_impression=true

 

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OKLAHOMA CITY -- A mythical, ape-like creature that has captured the imagination of adventurers for decades has now become the target of a state lawmaker in Oklahoma.

 

A Republican House member has introduced a bill that would create a Bigfoot hunting season. Rep. Justin Humphrey’s district includes the heavily forested Ouachita Mountains in southeast Oklahoma, where a Bigfoot festival is held each year near the Arkansas border. He says issuing a state hunting license and tag could help boost tourism.

“Establishing an actual hunting season and issuing licenses for people who want to hunt Bigfoot will just draw more people to our already beautiful part of the state," Humphrey said in a statement.

Humphrey says his bill would only allow trapping and that he also hopes to secure $25,000 to be offered as a bounty.

 

Micah Holmes, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, which oversees hunting in Oklahoma, told television station KOCO that the agency uses science-driven research and doesn’t recognize Bigfoot.

 

[Red Phoenix]

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Real Enemies makes three arguments about why modern Americans began to suspect their government of plotting against them.

First, as the government grew, it gained the power to conspire against its citizens, and it soon began exercising that power. By the height of the cold war, government agents had consorted with mobsters to kill a foreign leader, dropped hallucinogenic drugs into the drinks of unsuspecting Americans in random bars, and considered launching fake terrorist attacks on Americans in the United States. Public officials had denied potentially life-saving treatment to African American men in medical experiments, sold arms to terrorists in return for American hostages, and faked documents to frame past presidents for crimes they had not committed. These officials justified their conspiracies as a response to conspiracies supposedly plotted by un-American forces. "We're up against an enemy, a conspiracy," Richard Nixon told his aides once, as he devised one of his own plots. Later, as industrious congressmen and journalists revealed these actual conspiracies by the government, many Americans came to believe that the most outrageous conspiracy theories about the government could be plausible.

Second, many Americans developed alternative conspiracy theories in response to the official conspiracy theories proposed by the government. Government agents in the modern era often found it convenient to promote some officially sanctioned conspiracy theories. They said that un-American forces were working with the Germans (or the communists, or the terrorists) and that the U.S. government needed to take on more power to control these domestic enemies.

In other words, government officials promoted a certain conspiracist style - a deep, pervasive fear of hidden plotters - but they wanted to maintain the power to construct these conspiracy theories themselves and quash those that did not serve official interests. "Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th," President Bush said on November 10, 2001, shortly before his own administration began by spreading outrageous conspiracy theories concerning September 11 and Saddam Hussein. This book examines the relationship between official conspiracy theories (bin Laden plotted with Saddam) and unofficial or alternative conspiracy theories (bin Laden plotted with, say, Dick Cheney).

Finally, the government's efforts to spy on and harass dissenters convinced many Americans that the government was out to get them. There were so many U.S. agents charged with stopping "sedition" in 1918 that they tripped over one another during their investigations. One former agent recalled that he would sometimes interview a suspect in a sedition case during World War I only to find that "six or seven other government agencies had [already] been around to interview the party about the same matter." In 1936, President Roosevelt formally gave the Federal Bureau of Investigation the power to monitor "subversive activities" in the United States in peacetime, and the FBI began to add agents and new powers. During the Roosevelt years, from 1933 to 1945, the FBI's budget grew from $2.7 million to $45 million, and the number of special agents jumped from 266 to some 5000.

During the cold war, the FBI started its domestic covert action programs, known by the acronym COINTELPRO, in which agents infiltrated dissident groups and eventually tried to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" them. The FBI did not just monitor these individuals, but tried to break up their marriages, "seed mistrust, sow misinformation," and provoke them to commit crimes so that they could be arrested. The FBI originally directed this program at American communists, but it soon expanded its definition of communism. By 1960, when the Communist Party counted about five thousand members in the United States, the bureau maintained more than eighty times that number of files on "subversive" Americans at its headquarters, and FBI field offices around the country collected even more.

Not surpisingly, these surveillance and harassment programs aggravated the antigovernment fears of many Americans. Strangely enough, these fears also served the bureau's purposes. One purpose of COINTELPRO, according to an official memo, was to "enhance the paranoia endemic in [dissident] circles" and convince activists that "there is an FBI agent behind every mailbox." The agents believed that paranoid, divided dissident groups were easier to handle than purposeful, united dissident groups. In other words, the FBI conspired to create fear of conspiracy. And it succeeded. When the dissenters learned of these official government programs to deny them their First Amendment rights, they felt that their long-time fears had been vindicated. As the poet Delmore Schwartz has said, even paranoids have real enemies.

These government actions - the official conspiracies, the official conspiracy theories, and the attempts to quash alternative conspiracy theories - fueled the fears of dissenters. Government officials tried to control how the public interpreted events, sometimes lied about these events, and spied on and harassed those citizens who suggested different interpretations. Because of the countervailing tradition of openness in the U.S. government, some reporters and whistleblowers eventually revealed these conspiracies and domestic spying programs for all to see. But instead of being reassured by the process of revelation, skeptics were outraged - and afraid of what could come. They charged that other, as yet undiscovered secrets lay within the government's darkest vaults.

 

 

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=u7Sd5vyOOtEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA8&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

[Bobby Hundreds]

Why the fuck does the census want to know exactly where everyone is staying even guests on the 21st of March specifically. Is this when the real intrusive tracking of people truly begins. A giant technological biological scan of the country like some xmen mutant track and trace. 

[Bruce Spanner]

4 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Why the fuck does the census want to know exactly where everyone is staying even guests on the 21st of March specifically. Is this when the real intrusive tracking of people truly begins. A giant technological biological scan of the country like some xmen mutant track and trace. 

It’s when Bill Gates activates the first round of micro chips.

 

Just testing their GPS accuracy. 

[Total Longo]

Nessie. What i don't get about the Loch Ness Monster is that if it's a dinosaur wouldn't it have died by now? I wasn't aware of any living thing that could live for 65 million years, that's some going that

[General Dryness]

2 hours ago, Total Longo said:

Nessie. What i don't get about the Loch Ness Monster is that if it's a dinosaur wouldn't it have died by now? I wasn't aware of any living thing that could live for 65 million years, that's some going that

It was supposed to be a descendant of dinosaurs, and the reason the whole nessie thing is bollocks is that to survive that long, there would have to be a huge breeding group in order to avoid genetic malformations. In other words, there'd be too many of them for them to stay hidden the way they supposedly have.

 

I find cryptozoology interesting, and I'm sure that there are plenty of undiscovered species out there, or things that haven't gone extinct. But nothing enormous like a dinosaur. 

[General Dryness]

Double post.

[Bobby Hundreds]

3 hours ago, Bruce Spanner said:

It’s when Bill Gates activates the first round of micro chips.

 

Just testing their GPS accuracy. 

Mad question though.  Is anybody staying over at your house on the 21st of march. 

 

They trying to close potential loopholes, they should try that with taxes.