I’m not a conspiracy theory guy but I seen the post on 9/11 on no stupid questions and it seemed more fleshed out than I expected.

So what are conspiracy theories that turned out to be true?

And what are the most believable conspiracy theories out there?

  • Wanderer@lemm.eeOP
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    11 months ago

    The only two I know to be true off the top of my head are:

    The American government is spying on everyone. Which Edward Snowden showed to be true.

    And the, every personal printer has a secret code on it for identification.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

    So in all likelihood there are others out there yet to be uncovered.

    • RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I miss when conspiracy theories were (mostly) harmless. Black helicopters. Secret UFOs at Groom Lake. Bigfoot. Chemtrails.

      Now they’re out of hand and damaging, even deadly. Vaccines containing microchips. Ineffective medications are used because it’s a conspiracy to not use them. Deadly viruses are a leftist conspiracy. Q helping sabotage the democratic process. Etc.

      They’re not fun anymore. They’re getting scary.

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        11 months ago

        Blame Trump for that, the moment he announced his candidacy his rancid following began flooding all conspiracy forums with their rancid cheese.

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      11 months ago

      And the, every personal printer has a secret code on it for identification.

      Oh god am I going to have to go back to cutting letters out of the newspaper and glueing them on.