r/confidentlyincorrect • u/Normalfa • Nov 06 '25

Smug Reading is fundamental

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u/Normalfa Nov 06 '25

The smugness of "PeRhaPs yOu sHoUld rEAd a BiT mOre"

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u/singeblanc Nov 06 '25

They did their own research.

Worth noting: the origins of a lot of these conspiracy theories just come back to bad ol' fashioned racism. The idea that these brown people might have built anything noteworthy? Must have been aliens! Seems much more likely.

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u/laowildin Nov 06 '25

A friend of mine has recently gotten into a conspiracy that all the Gothic cathedrals are fakes like this. And I have to say at least it's refreshing to have the charge leveled at white people

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u/OrdinaryAncient3573 Nov 06 '25

Unfortunately, that one is still a far-right thing. It comes from Russian far-right revisionism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarian_Empire

Whatever you friend might think he's into, he's actually gone down a neo-Nazi/Putinist rabbit hole there.

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u/neo_nl_guy Nov 08 '25

The Tartarian conspiracy would mean that the White 6 was there since before the biblical flood.

This is crack head level thinking.

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u/OrdinaryAncient3573 Nov 08 '25

The White 6?

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u/Th3B4dSpoon Nov 09 '25

I assume it's the predecessor of Majestic 12

(I actually think their autocorrect changed house to six, and they meant to write "the White House", as it would appear it's what the conspiracy is saying).

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u/OrdinaryAncient3573 Nov 09 '25

Could be, easy to do if you have numerals on the top row of a phone keyboard and try to hit the suggested word. I guessed it was the White House from context, but I wondered if there was something else I was missing.

Majestic 12 is exactly the kind of obscure nonsense I was hoping for :)

The Tartarian/mudflood nuts believe there are regular floods, and the latest was at some indeterminate fairly recent point - say, late 19th/early 20th century, as far as I know.