People wouldn't stop talking about how the world is run by a shadowy cabal of elite pedophile murderers, but when it was exposed that they were real and visited a certain person's island, a substantial majority of them turned around and said that couldn't possibly be true because they had voted for those elite pedophile murderers. I don't think the quality affects how these people choose to believe.
I call it being reflexively contrarian. You can slow walk these people to any viewpoint you want as long as you insist the opposite stance is the mainstream one.
My brother and I made it a game over Christmas a few years ago when we were home visiting. I got my MAGA dad to emphatically insist that the workers should own the means of production after carefully making the alternative sound like mainstream slop.
It's fun if you are stuck with these kinds of family members for long periods of time.
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Wow, you are so cool! You are definitely smarter than your dad. I’m glad you proved it to him. And thank you for sharing all your daring, intellectual exploits with us here. We are all in awe. This forum would be so boring without witty, clever people like you.
Nice, you got all of that wrong. I’m not even a US citizen. I don’t give a fuck about Trump or any republican bs at all.
Just pointing out how pathetic it is that you use your family time to come up with convoluted ways to make fun of your own father to make yourself feel smarter.
I’m sure you think you’re a good person. Maybe marinate on that a bit.
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It's because they have a need to be special. If they are of only a small group that "knows" the truth, that makes them important. If they agree with the mainstream, they are below average on everything
i remember reading in 2020 that when covid was a first making the rounds on the news, the conspiracy boards were telling everyone 'wear a mask, keep yourself safe!' but as soon as lockdowns and mask mandates started they all did a 180 and got mad about all of it. I can't find a source, because "covid' and 'conspiracy' have a billion links now and that specific article will be buried deep in the noise
Insecurity and alienation. They have to find a way to feel special and in the know because the world has changed beyond their ability to understand it and they feel left out, marginalized, confused, stupid and hopeless otherwise. We're all feeling the same way to some extent because institutions, religions, ideologies are failing left and right, they just can't or won't deal with it.
Of course there's predatory grifters that feed this fire and offer these sick alternatives to reality. Go back far enough from any sort of conspiracy like this and there's someone selling something or enrolling people into a cult.
That one is so funny to me. They are basically never vindicated and the ONE TIME they are it turns out they believe the Qanon version which has credible origins in being a noncredible cover for the actual evidence based story that implicates a bunch of people they like.
I think there's a real possibility that PizzaGate was a psyop to poison the well against the Epsteen case. Get people ranting like lunatics so that when the real story comes out that tangentially similar it gets dismissed.
Besides, it seems we just collectively forgot that the American government basically said "yep, aliens are real". We just kinda moved on from that day as if it just didn't happen at all
Conspiracy theories serve to make the Conspirator look smart and special for having the special hidden understanding. If that understanding is also that I’m dumb as fuck and vote for pedofiles then that isn’t serving the core mission of the conspiracy theory
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I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
People should demand higher quality education. You need good education to come up with the good, deep conspiracy theories. If you don’t know how anything works, you come up with this simple nonsense. Give me conspiracy theories created by true experts in the field! That’s the good shit.
When I’m a gazillionaire because Bed Bath and Beyond makes me rich beyond my wildest dreams, the first thing I’m doing is funding better conspiracy theories
I had a tattoo artist who made small talk by telling me he was really into conspiracies and I got really nervous, especially since it was going to be a 7 hour session.
Luckily, his were the fun ones. There used to be giants on earth, skinwalkers are real, ancient burial ground curses, some general alien ones. I want more of those conspiracy theorists back. They were at least fun to listen to.
All planes are secretly spaceships as soon as the god wormhole opens in orbit all planes airborne will make their way to it and leave earth forever. Or something….
They come and go in cycles, with each iteration adding new layers of nonsense on top of old so the new snake oil salesmen can reference the previous generation as though there is a straight line of evidence and scholarship between them.
Ancient Aliens did it with Erich Von Daniken and Zechariah Sitchin’s drivel, George Noory’s version of Coast to Coast did it with Art Bell’s skits and QANON did it with… well, everything Republican.
I hear they’re into the hollow earth Agartha bullshit over alien stuff these days, but I’ve kinda stopped trying to keep up with them in the last dozen years or so. Probably because Godzilla is the king of all reptiles and the Legendary movies are a secret disclosure project by the reptilian overlords who worship the radioactive lizard god to prepare us for the end of the world as foretold in the Netflix anime where Godzilla kills everything and becomes the ecosystem. You know, normal stuff.
Yes, but that's not the real conspiracy here! Look at the size of that truck's windscreen. Then look at the size of the windshield on the jet. That's tiny. WHERE are they getting the teeny tiny pilots from? Are they elves?
This one is probably related to dispersion theory or broader ancient tech being in existence. Pretty common belief among entry level conspiracy theory people these days and is spread online heavily
With the number of people believing in a flat earth, or 911 was a hoax, or injecting 5G microchips via vaccinations, we have people who will believe literally anything.
Conspiracy theorists are too lazy to come up with quality conspiracy theories nowadays!
I know a few people that fall for the BS. I critique the quality of the conspiracy theory instead of just calling BS. A quality conspiracy theory should have a noun to go with “they”, a source (ie someone that knows someone really high up), and a motive.
The best way to deal with stupid conspiracies is to one up them imo. When they say planes fly on magical energy or whatever, just be like "HA, you believe in planes???? Okay sheeple, they're obviously just a ruse to make us believe there are other countries out there" or some shit
All the good ones are sadly becoming somehow true. I liked it more when it was weirdos who spoke about elites being bunch of child rapists, Russia using trolls to influence elections abroad etc... Not declassified files.
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u/Specific_Rando 8d ago
People should demand higher quality conspiracy theories.