It’s wild.
Conspiracy theory, why can’t Americans differentiate loose and lose?
Because:
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The words “lose” and “loose” have the same vowel sound (and for some reason the extra “o” changes /z/ to /s/).
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There are no other words ending in -ose that have the /u/ sound
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Many words ending in -oose exist that have an /u/ sound, including the very common word, “choose”, which has the same /uz/ sound that “lose” has at the end
I never get these spellings mixed up but I can absolutely understand why someone would.
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It’s they’re poor education system that they have their. There need for an /s when their reading sarcasm shows they’re lack of comprehension
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Yes, though you have to remember, in most other places, the government cracks down on conspiracy theories. For example, if you live in China and believe that certain groups are secretly being mistreated, you’re going to have the authorities on your tail.
Absolutely not. People might give you reasons Americans are but that’s because they don’t know about the crazy shit people believe elsewhere but there’s nowhere that’s immune to conspiracy theories.
The thing that differentiates America is that it’s a major country (so on TV a lot, in English) and a low-trust society. But Italy and Uganda and Japan all have wild ass conspiracy theories. (Italy has some actual conspiracies like Propaganda Due.)
No, we just have a larger presence on the internet relative to our share of the global population, meaning our idiocy is noticed a lot more often.
Call it the Florida Man effect, it’s not that other states don’t also have crazies, it’s just that Florida’s are more well documented and publicized.
Yes we are! It’s a result of all the subliminal messaging we receive from our kitchen appliances.
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Nice try, refrigerator.
That’s why you cook everything on a wood fire in the middle of your kitchen.
Make sure you punch a hole in the roof for the smoke!
We see a lot of efforts to convince suckers of absurdities in the US because there’s a lot of economic value in swinging American votes.
In other countries that either don’t have voting, or don’t have a lot of economic power, there’s less to be gained by befuddling morons.
There is a hidden assumption in your comment: conspiracy theories are intentionally created or reinforced with specific strategic goals.
While I think that it’s probably rare, there have been conspiracy theories that are intentionally crafted to achieve goals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_INFEKTION
And I am very sure that there have been many efforts to amplify existing conspiracies; you can look at disinformation research.
I think that the majority of conspiracy theories are asroturfed, even those that actually started as grass roots. The Russians clearly admit that reinforcing propaganda rhat sticks, is a big part of their strategy.
My conspiracy is that conspiracies are a conspiracy
There are plenty of crazies believing in conspiracy theories all over the world. Not just US or even the western world.
America has vast tracts of arable land with people who have nothing to look at but fields and endless sky, and who get very little contact with other humans.
I have met several people who moved into Usa during the last years, and they all said Yes very much.
Moved from where?
Some Germans and some Usamericans who had lived in Europe for a while.
Why would you do that?
Yes. The lizard people engineered us that way.
I think there may be a factor of sample size; There’s something like 40 million Canadians, 40 million Australians, 60 million British, and 340 million Americans. So if you take a random sample of English speech on any topic, it’s statistically most likely to be from an American.
You forgot Russia, india & china
No I didn’t. India might be an asterisk.
Americans are mentally ill by nature. You just need to be in America and you are infected with mental illness and obesity. This is the reason why Americans are more prone to conspiracy theories including the idea that if you are fit you will fluctuate to space, thus most Americans become comorbidly obese to keep them in the Earth’s ground atmosphere. The solution for this is to deny Americans having crazy children who shoot schools and other types of mass murders.
So it’s a geological issue then?
Yes, it is actually a geopolitical issue that affects the biology of Americans. The Pacific Province has active volcanoes that expel smoke and when inhaled makes Americans in the region feel lightweight and as if fluctuating. The Columbia Plateau terrain is formes by basaltic lava that erupted millions years ago; this terrain has special characteristics that make it smoother than other types, so Americans feel like fluctuating instead of being in the ground. The Appalachian Highlands were formed by colliding the North America Plate with the African and Eurasian plates, so when American walk through these places they feel like being in a continent other than North America. The list goes on, but we shall also remember America is a capitalist neoliberal country which is a modern framework for society, so Americans are very stressed out by this system that’s very different from when they were hunter-gatherers; this difference creates an environment prone to the development of mental illness and believing in conspiracy theories. The result: children shooting schools.
Oh I am fully aware of the basaltic flows of the Pacific North West and elsewhere, mind you, but how do you feel about Deccan traps?
No. An old colleague of mine is on LinkedIn non-stop posting crazy QAnon shit and RT headlines. Anti-vax more-or-less started in the UK with the Andrew Wakefield affair and it seems to be super-popular in Australia too. Conspiracy Theory kind of helps people rationalise the absolute chaotic mess of the world we live in by reducing it to simple narratives where a defined enemy is out to get us.
It’s easier to think everyone is out to get you. Than that you are just an insignificant self sabotaging fuck up. Not even on the radar of the elder gods
I would also add things we consider conspiracy like UFO’s have been seen all over the world just other countries usually have a religious or spiritual reason for the sightings and thus they don’t become a conspiracy just part of their everyday life. Look up Jacques Vallee he does great research into this.
The rates in the US and UK are pretty far ahead of anywhere else.
I am kinda surprised that the UK is ahead.
That supports my comment fairly well and for the UK sightings being high my guess is crop circles they are extremely popular in UK because of the right to roam law that’s just my guess though
I think it’s the accidental correlation of two separate events- crop circles and UFO visits.
I don’t think it’s accidently people who report crop circles usually are believers themselves and therefore are more likely to connect some prosiac anomaly in the sky the crop circle
But then we have ball lightning and we’re back to square one.
Haha I like you. I find it funny mainstream science will accept ball lightning when it’s just as pseudo as UFOs. I’m not a believer per say but I do think there is something about this phenomenon that is beyond our current perception. I could be wrong but seems like enough evidence to be researched imo
Here’s the deal, the ball lightning thing, it could be anything. But it’s typical of a certain kind of people to instantly jump to conclusions about aliens, illuminati, the JFK assassination and the moon landing because we don’t know.
Like, we know the crop circles are bullshit. It was a couple of guys doing it. In the 90’s. How many crop circles are being reported in 2024? None. Did the aliens just leave? Ok.
The UK is Original Flavor US.
