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    Stevie Wonder not being blind is fairly up there in “inconsequential in the grand scheme” ones.

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    Vaccines cause autism and/or other major health issues for a significant portion of the population. Since vaccination rates in large parts of the world are close to 90% for important vaccines you’d be seeing large numbers of cases for whatever negative effect you think they had. E.g. if vaccines actually did cause autism, in a population where 90% are vaccinated you’d surely have more than the current ~1% of autism diagnosis.

    Also the Covid vaccine killing people in large numbers. When the vaccine started rolling out a colleague told me with a straight face that the covid vaccine had already killed 1/3 of the population in Bulgaria (or maybe it was another eastern European country). She absolutely 100% believed it and said the media was covering it up.

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    Tartaria

    The idea that in the past hundred years or so, a mud flood wiped out a global, advanced society and the world governments are suppressing the truth. It got a recent resurgence on tiktok.

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      Yeah, you’d have to be a total idiot to believe something as ridiculous as that.

      Plus, everyone knows this is how the earth really is:

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            I think the dad of the gods ate all of his kids, and was it zeus that tricked him or what, fooled him into eating a rock that he thought was the kid that somehow broke everyone out of poppa’s belly.

            It’s really kind of a dumb story, but I’m sure much has been lost in the retelling over thousands of years, and rival religions trying to make it sound dumber even.

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              If I remember correctly, Ouranos fathered Chronos. Chronos killed Ouranos to take his place as king of the gods. Afraid his kids would do the same to him, Chronos ate them (these included Poseidon and Hades). Then Zeus fed him the rock and made him vomit out all his siblings.

              So all together, that accounts for Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto.

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      Man that chart has not aged well at all, just in the last few years. Also the artist’s motivations are pretty visible.

      Most of these are hyper-exaggerations of what real people believe. Or purposeful misunderstandings of the underlying point. Take ‘Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams’ for example. Used since its inception as a meme to undermine 9/11 conspiracy theories.

      Ultimately this is a tactic in itself. My conspiracy theory is that all the antisemetic theories, insane-sounding theories, theories that have no attachment to reality, rothschilds etc, are not perpetuated by ordinary people (though they unwittingly participate). They are perpetuated by the very parties the conspiracies are about. If someone hears that being a 9/11 truther is inextricably linked to antisemitism, and they think of themselves as a good person, they’ll shy away from ever looking into it any further than that; it’s a normal reaction if someonebis already stressed, busy, or otherwise precluded from more critical thought.

      Edit: Yes some of these are totally insane, I am just referring to things that have roots firmly in reality.

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        My conspiracy theory is that all the antisemetic theories, insane-sounding theories, theories that have no attachment to reality, rothschilds etc, are not perpetuated by ordinary people (though they unwittingly participate). They are perpetuated by the very parties the conspiracies are about.

        Isn’t there evidence that Epstein himself met with moot to kick off Pizzagate?

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      Yeah dude have you read through the satanic rituals those pedos have apparently done and who’s on that Epstein list? Turns out pizzagate is real it’s just not as those MAGA idiots thought, everyone is part of it, red or blue doesn’t matter. Turns out there is indeed a shadow elite apparently doing ritualistic murders and running child sex trafficking rings. Turns out this chart is bullshit.

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      I feel like this chart covers most of them, but needs a different distinction. Which ones are fun to invoke in converstion to play off the crazy and obes that ate actually off the deep end.

      For example, chemtrails is a vintage conspiracy thory, its been around for a while and most people can casually make fun of it. I cant make jokes about half of that top row because most normal people just know what most of those words even mean, let alone the contents of the conspiracy.

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      Is the “they won’t let us see the tapes of the Pentagon impact” part of Steel Beams, or is it a new one so it’s tried separately? “Spotted tail numbers” too? Midnight Gold Shipments? Like, is all the 9/11 stuff lumped in under that, or are they free to be their own weirdness as long as they neither depend nor provide for an adjacent whackadoo theory?

      What IS the associative rule for independent whackadoo theories ?

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          Ugh. It’s always everyone except the ones who are actually guilty.

          I feel like Epstein and Associates were probably peddling all these conspiracy theories to make them sound ludicrous, so that if/when their own dealings became discovered people would be less likely to be credulous.

          That’s what’s really insidious about all this constant projection and “accusations in a mirror.” Not only does it destroy innocent reputations, it also burns people out so that the real villains get lost in the noise.

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      “Antisemitic point of no return”

      It could’ve been something related to thinking that that ethnic group of brown people in West Asia, you know, Semites, deserve to die and Deus Vult and etc etc but of course it’s some Zio nonsense, lol. I mean what else could it be if it’s part of the Western narrative shelf.

      And, of course:

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        if we’re talking about jews running the world and invented woke to weaken the white race, then yhea, seek help or a tall ledge to jump off.

        if it is just antizionism and some cunt tells you that’s antisemitism, tell them to get help or to find a ledge.

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          I agree, of course. “Jews run the world” but Israel is a colony created by the unholy union of the British and French and currently propped up and managed by the other diabolical Western European spawn, the USA. 🤷

          Even the terms “Jew” and “Semite” mean nothing (done on purpose so the spin can be effective), because the vast majority of self-identifying Jews are atheists, lol, and the ones that have colonized the West Bank are just Western and Eastern Europeans who believe in the law of the jungle (not the law of Moses), not Semites (which are the locals getting murdered by the West regularly since at least the days of the Crusades). And of course neither being an atheist nor being Eastern or Western European are reason enough to hate anyone, but the people who hate “da joos” in the West think they’re neither when they’re basically the same group of people (these “Semites” are not Semitic, sure, but they’re not Chinese or Nigerian either but pretty obviously European, and Tel Aviv is the gay capital of West Asia). Oh well.

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            semites as a way to refer to Jews comes from the scientific racism movement. and the term antisemitism came from that.

            technically, Palestinians are semites so Israel is antisemitic. but by now we are playing so much with the meaning of words those words are useless.

            also, calling anything in Israel a gay capital is pure BS propaganda. not only gay marriage isn’t allowed there, the antimiscenegation laws are so strict that many Israeli jews with Russian descend aren’t allowed to get married in Israel.

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    Flat earth. At the point we’re at now when it comes to personally accessible technology, anyone still believing it is 100% making a choice to do so, because it makes them feel better about things for some reason.

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      If the Earth was flat either

      A. Cats would have knocked everything off it by now, or B. Dudes would be leading tours to the edge, because capitalism.

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      The Social Tilemma touched on this. Weird shit would get popular and invode your Facebook feed. I’ve never seen anything real about it, I don’t use Facebook, Instagram or tiktok, have only seen memes making fun of flat earthers.

      Fucking crazy that an idea like Pizza gate took off the way it did, idiots I tell you. Being fed dogshit and eating it up like they’re starving.

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      You don’t even need technology. You just need to get out of the city and out of a car and look at some far away mountains on a clear day.

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        the dunes at the beach, three layers, water, sand dunes, and trees atop them.

        the sandunes disappear first, then the trees. if it was flat, they would both converge at the sea level with straight lines (with some irregularities because the beach isn’t a straight line).

        and that’s just one way. with zero tech, or even measurements.

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    I’m surprised the Epstein isn’t dead theory isn’t more popular. The conspiracy protecting him was finally unambiguously uncovered to be real, then the FBI released doctored footage the cell he “committed suicide” in. No funeral. No nothing. Just confirmation that all the most richest people in the world are implicated and have the means to cover it up

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      When ol’ Kenny-boy from Enron magically died right before his trial, which enabled his family to retain all of his money, that’s when I first started realizing that maybe these fake deaths for the ultra-wealthy are plausible.

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    Ted Cruz being the Zodiac Killer. Politicians don’t need to be serial killers, they do a lot more everlasting damage on everyone they’re governing.

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      I thought it was Rafael Cruz’s dad is the one who was supposed to be the Zodiac killer. Or is the conspiracy that his dad was covering for him so he could go into politics and flee Texas as soon as it got chilly?

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    Donald trumpet is the reincarnation of Jorge Ubico, Guatemalan dictator (born/died June 14, 1946).

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      Stephen Colbert’s body double took his persona when he got the job at network tv, while stephen went to LA and got involved in politics, taking on the identity of Mike Johnson the House Speaker.

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      If midterms couldn’t change anything, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to ratfuck them.

      While we are doomed under democratic leadership as it stands, that does not make our situation hopeless, we just need real leadership. But to get there we need to realize the democratic establishment is unwilling to save us. They are the enemy. We need popular reform, and an aggressive opposition that knows how to build and run a political machine.

      This isn’t 1990 as the democrats think, it’s 1929.

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    I don’t know if “celebs moisturize with children’s foreskin” is totally detached from reality.

    Now it probably isn’t what a lot of the people who get worked up about this are thinking, but there are beauty treatments and products out there that do in fact use ingredients that are sometimes derived from infant foreskins.

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    I think the covid vaccine being some kind of tracking device or something. Im not sure on detail as I never went downt the rabbit hole.