We’ve got a bunch of new people now so let’s bring back a classic post. What low stakes conspiracy theory do you believe that you cannot prove but feels right to you?
I’ll start: I believe that dating apps have made a concerted effort to smear in person meeting people and tie it to being “creepy” through social media so you are forced to meet people online(which was the creepy option just 15 years ago)
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Gaylor Swift. I heard someone talking about it once and I went down the rabbithole and it’s crazy.
Go on
Cishet white women like to image Taylor is a lesbian or bi because it makes them feel like they’re supporting a “diverse” artist instead of a rich, white, cishet one
Celebrity culture is weird
it’s literally all kinds of people, I have seen many many queer people support this.
She gay
starting a rehabilitation facility for queer swifties. you deserve more out of life than this.
Tupac is still alive
Paul Wellstone was assassinated, pretty sure I’ve said this one last time the thread came up.
i have no idea who that is or why they’d do it but i believbe you
Progressive Senator from Minnesota during the 90’s, one of the few to vote against the Iraq war. Small plane mysteriously crashed a week before election day. The pilot was a white collar criminal with lots of issues.
never get in a small planeGot a link theee list somewhere?
“You’re darn tootin!”
Brace’s Rules for Life, but a lot of people in Minnesota agree Wellstone was murdered.
At a meeting full of war veterans in Willmar, Minn., days before his death, Wellstone told attendees that Cheney told him, “If you vote against the war in Iraq, the Bush administration will do whatever is necessary to get you. There will be severe ramifications for you and the state of Minnesota.”
Food companies and restaurants have started putting out products they’ve released before, but keep labeling them New to draw in people who want to try new things
They did this at the Woolworths grocery stores in 2016. All the store brand products started disappearing and new “budget” brands started showing up at 50-100% the price.
OK when is Red Bull going to bring Cranberry flavor back.
Public programs are purposely underfunded to make it easy for people to point to why they don’t work (the average person doesn’t think about/care whether they get funding), making it easier to continue the process of privatizing everything.
Many conspiracy theories aren’t actually conspiracy theories but a consequence of profit-driven motives that give the illusion of a conspiracy theory.
That’s not even a conspiracy it’s the explicit neoliberal plan
Hmm not sure I like the framing here, liberals are 100% culpable as well
As someone who works with houseless folks this is absolutely without a doubt a thing. There are for profit companies springing up that do similar social services that I do, too, so the privatization part even applies. It’s fucked
Public programs are purposely underfunded to make it easy for people to point to why they don’t work (the average person doesn’t think about/care whether they get funding), making it easier to continue the process of privatizing everything.
I 420.69% believe this is 100% true. It’s such a great feedback loop for someone wanting to dismantle it. It doesn’t work so no one uses it, no uses it because it doesn’t work, and it doesn’t work because it was underfunded and ill-equipped, and it was underfunded and ill-equipped because they didn’t want it to work. It doesn’t work so no one uses it, its perceived value is lessened so it then doesn’t work.
And then you can make great use of absolute numbers over more contextualized relative numbers/ Here’s a made up example:
why did it cost 700 million to vaccinate every American??
$700 million / 300 million Americans = $2.33 per vaccination, insanely cheap. Less than you spent on gas tax getting to and from work today.I’m always immediately suspicious when someone starts throwing around absolute numbers like that.
I’m always immediately suspicious when someone starts throwing around absolute numbers like that.
Agreed! Anyone who uses tries to use math to justify why a bad thing is a good thing goes to super hell. The one where the Doom Slayer just goes buck wild. That’s where they go.
Self assured STEM dorks and their consequences
It’s also super frustrating that these STEM dweebs have have lucrative skillsets that the “Mark€t™️©️®️ “ “values”. Because of this they can’t justify to themselves why they should go into the public sector for the betterment of the people. STEM dorks across the board would be so much cooler if they were used for public welfare and social good.
I totally understand why a regular non-CHUD publicly educated STEMheads would go private sector. They have bills and debt and all that jazz, and sadly the public sector jobs can’t give out those sorts of attractive salaries and benefits.
All of this further perpetuates the cycle original post was talking about. Nerds get their education in the public then leave to private sector which hallows out the public sector. It’s just a vicious and vile cycle.
That’s just observable facts.
The first one is just political strategy, it’s known as starve the beast
Yeah, afaik this is pretty widely acknowledged. Both the GOP and the Dems do it. The notable example I can think of is all the public housing projects the US grudgingly built in response to Soviet housing programs, then deliberately starved of resources to convince people they don’t work.
Starving education of resources so it can be privatized has been ongoing program for decades. Everyone’s in on it - Tech Billionaires wanted to control education so they could proletarianize coding and they largely won. Christian Fascists wanted Charter Schools so they could re-impose segregation. Democrats wanted to privatize everything so they could loot public education funds and divert the money to magnet and charter schools, while also stripping resources going to minorities. The whole purpose of property-tax funded education was to ensure that class was rigidly enforced.
I think the story about the passengers fighting back on United flight 93 is fake and it was shot down by the military.
feel like most people on this site believe this one
United flight 93
Idea for a bit: Hexbear passengers on United Flight 93 having a struggle session on whether it’s okay to critically support our hijackers if they really do intend to fly the plane into the Capitol building.
I could see Mel Brooks or Monty Python pulling that. I don’t know who the equivalent screwball black comedy people are these days. Eric Andre?
Even That Mitchell and Webb Look is a decade old at this point.
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Both can be true. The story is entirely plausible, though. People had cell-phones and the towers had already been hit.
I think there’s a cultural memory hole thing going on - Hijackings used to be really, really common and were usually resolved without too much violence. Being hijacked would definitely ruin your day, but the general wisdom was to just sit tight and wait to be rescued or ransomed or whatever. A lot of the time passengers would be released after the hijacker’s demands were met.
Pretty much the only reason 9/11 worked as well as it did is because up until then no one had tried it. Once the people on 93 knew what the stakes were it was, what, 150? 200 people against four or five armed with small knives? Most people aren’t fighters but those are still really, really bad odds.
Were cell phones usable on planes in 2001?
No, but back then some planes had payphones on the seat back where the touch screen entertainment systems are now.
100% believe it
ohhhh, I never heard this one
honestly sounds true
I just happen to know from credible sources the Paul from the wonder years is actually Marilyn Manson
Ah I always heard it was the older brother on Mr Belvedere. And smashing pumpkins guy was the boy from Small Wonder
And Dustin Diamond is Neil Diamonds son
I believe that dating apps have made a concerted effort to smear in person meeting people and tie it to being “creepy” through social media so you are forced to meet people online(which was the creepy option just 15 years ago)
I BELIEVE IT I BELIEVE IT I BELIEVE IT
I go back and forth. But this week I 100% believe Justin from Canada is Fidel’s kid.
I like this one.
Also, Hua Guofeng was Mao Zedong’s son. I mean think about it, they were both Chinese and they both had the same haircut.
The claims that more and more early humans are different species or subspecies is a move to bolster a new wave of race science for when america really starts collapsing. It takes advantage of younger researchers wanting to make a name for themselves, especially ones of less enfranchised groups who will do what they need to to secure jobs and funding. Some of these claims are really weak, but will get signal boosted, the same way the Iowa writing workshop was bolstered to further american isolation and post-modern art was funded to move away from materialism, so the nazis of the future can claim to be genuinely different races with some flimsy scientific evidence
Frosted Flakes are not great, they’re just paying Tony the Tiger to say that.
THEY’RE GRRRRRRFINE!
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Also, this guy looks an awful lot like Flat Dallas!
Don’t use “whore” as a pejorative
“Whores” should be venerated in the hustle-grindset-gig-economy the world has created but strangely are not.
On the real though, sex work is so weirdly moralized in the market economy when everything else isn’t. They want you to monetize your free time, your thoughts, your interests, your relationships, but you monetize your sexuality they get all
it’s part of the apparatus of control over female-bodied people
Aren’t there male sex workers as well?
yes, of course, but people are usually mad at them for being gay, not for being sex workers
John Harvey Kellogg was a surgeon who performed circumcisions. He believed they were an effective treatment for “addiction to masterbation”.
There are conspiracy theories (misconceptions?) that he popularized circumcisions in America. Or that Corn Flakes were created to curb masterbation urges - because they are so bland that obviously no one would want to jerk it after eating that.
Idk where I’m going with this, but John Harvey Kellogg was a weird fucking dude.
lol. If you haven’t heard it, I very much recommend The Dollop episode 46: The Cereal Men.
Well I know what I’m listening to during work today
Enjoy!
Is this a misconception? I’ve never looked into that but heard it before. I’m skeptical of googling this haha
He did actually make cornflakes to stop people from masturbating though. It was something to do with spicy food making you horny
The healing power of crystals is real, but very few people have had the gumption to have enough inside them to get the full effect.
It takes colloidal silver to activate the healing powers.
Drink up.
The healing factor is actually just what you get from finding a cool rock
I would like to point out that a lot of these crystals are poisonous pls don’t eat them.
Make sure to eat the ones that are safe though. Did you know chalk is harmless in small quantities?
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do not belive the dirt owl, eat as much malachite as you can get your hands on. Uranite if you can, or serpentine.
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The Sonic movie deliberately used an ugly design for the first trailer as a marketing stunt
That Trudeau is Castro’s son, I haven’t done any looking into it (
) but like it doesn’t affect anything in the real world whether or not it’s true and it would be funny if it was, so I choose to believe it
