Favorite Conspiracy Theory

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Church's Fried Chicken had a secret ingredient designed to make black males impotent. Seriously heard that once. LMFAO'd.

The government piped drugs into the ghettos to control the black population.

When I was younger, I had a friend who believed everything was racially motivated. He was black and all about how govt tried to hold the black man down. Good guy, but had no sense of reason.
 
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Operation Northwoods

"A conspiracy involving a plan by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to launch a fake Cuban terror campaign on American soil to persuade the US public to support an invasion against Castro. The plan involved bombings and the simultaneous hijacking and blowing up of American airliners. The operation was quashed by President Kennedy leading many to speculate that it was linked to his assassination a year later. The plan has also been linked by theorists who believe that the September 11, 2001 attacks were a so-called 'inside job" because of the use of airliners".
 
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Operation Bath-Salt Zombies

This spring, the electorate in the U.S. was finally embracing the notion that marijuana should be legalized and the the War on Drugs should be stopped. Even Pat Robertson publicly declared that marijuana should be legal. There is too much money to be made in both the government and the private sector from the prohibition of drugs. The CIA engaged in a plan to terrorize the electorate and show them that drugs are not only harmful to the individual but a directly, and grotesquely, harmful to those in society.
 
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dduncan4163 said:
I got a friend that discovered Alex Jones last year. He is now a 911 Truther, Birther, and Holocaust denier. He has installed a Fluoride removal filter, and preaches constantly about Chemtrails, and HARP. He is currently sending me links showing the Moon Landing was fake lol.

Talking with him got me to wandering what some of your favorite Conspiracy Theories are.

Southpark - They Took Our Job! - YouTube

This has to be my favorite. It amazes me at the amount of books he sells. Icke has made himself Rich preaching the crazy. I do believe that he believes it however.
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"SIAP" didn't read the entire thread,

my favorite conspiracy theory is BAMA's 13 NC's
 
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OrangeYankee said:
I seriously knew someone who believed that. In fact he went a step further and said we had a satellite loaded with a nuke rocketing towards Jupiter. Upon detonation it'd become a star, thus announcing the arrival of the Antichrist, none other than our resident manwhore in chief: Bubba Clinton. Of course, who cares that if Jupiter would become a sun our gooses would literally be cooked, silly details.
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There used to be a bunch of great websites about Clinton and his death list and how he wanted to be the head of the UN and President at the same time. Most of the were Geocities, so I do not know how many are still around but they were great.
People blamed him for everything including Ruby Ridge even though he was not the President when it happened.
 
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Weezer said:
Church's Fried Chicken had a secret ingredient designed to make black males impotent. Seriously heard that once. LMFAO'd.

The government piped drugs into the ghettos to control the black population.

When I was younger, I had a friend who believed everything was racially motivated. He was black and all about how govt tried to hold the black man down. Good guy, but had no sense of reason.
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Did your friend grow up to be LG?
 
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therealUT said:
Operation Bath-Salt Zombies

This spring, the electorate in the U.S. was finally embracing the notion that marijuana should be legalized and the the War on Drugs should be stopped. Even Pat Robertson publicly declared that marijuana should be legal. There is too much money to be made in both the government and the private sector from the prohibition of drugs. The CIA engaged in a plan to terrorize the electorate and show them that drugs are not only harmful to the individual but a directly, and grotesquely, harmful to those in society.
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:eek:lol:
 
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All of the people that disappeared or were killed that were some how linked to the Clinton's. My US history teacher was all about digging into this . But i haven't lol.
 
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Pretty interesting discussion about the prevalence of conspiracy theories (from both parties) the last 17 years or so.

www.theringer.com

The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories

Derek is joined by Joseph Uscinski to discuss some surprising answers to questions concerning the psychology of conspiratorial thinking in politics, as well as the general history of conspiracy theories in America
www.theringer.com www.theringer.com
 
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n_huffhines said:
Pretty interesting discussion about the prevalence of conspiracy theories (from both parties) the last 17 years or so.

www.theringer.com

The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories

Derek is joined by Joseph Uscinski to discuss some surprising answers to questions concerning the psychology of conspiratorial thinking in politics, as well as the general history of conspiracy theories in America
www.theringer.com www.theringer.com
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Helluva bump, Huff.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Pretty interesting discussion about the prevalence of conspiracy theories (from both parties) the last 17 years or so.

www.theringer.com

The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories

Derek is joined by Joseph Uscinski to discuss some surprising answers to questions concerning the psychology of conspiratorial thinking in politics, as well as the general history of conspiracy theories in America
www.theringer.com www.theringer.com
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Some interesting points made:

- The prevalence of conspiracies is not on the rise. The conversation about conspiracies is on the rise. When the host pushed back on this, the researcher explained liberal media wants you to believe it's on the rise among the right. It's easy to accept that bevause Trump is all about conspiracies, and he is the current face of the right but that part of him doesn't have extra appeal to traditional conservatives. It has impactful appeal to outsiders.
- One example of that ^ was this idea that QAnon was this growing juggernaut of a conspiracy theory, when only like 5% of Republicans ever accepted it.
- Both sides are pretty indistinguishable in their acceptance of conspiracies, it's just the kinds of conspiracies that are different.
- some studies seem to refute his results, like that Republicans are more likely to engage with misinformation and he said that those studies are not randomly sampled because it's internet users, and also the study was done 2016-ish when all the major news outlets, including Fox early in the nomination process, were demonizing Trump. So if you wanted anything pro-Trump, you didn't really have any choice but to engage with less established sources (some of which are trustworthy, but a ton of them are less trustworthy than CNN (as much as we don't trust CNN)).
- He made a funny point with like 5 different hosts from The View as examples. They took turns delving into different conspiracies (Rosie with 9/11, McCarthy with vaccines, etc.)
- We don't have a ton of comparable data from the distant past, but one interesting thing he showed was that just after the JFK assassination, about 50% didn't believe lone gunmen and within a decade it was at something like 83%. It's now down in the 50's, and he said in the 20 years he's been polling, he has never found a conspiracy with more than 55% acceptance. This gives a lot of context to the data that only 5% of right-wingers accepted QAnon.
- There are almost never any novel conspiracy theories. Usually it's the same old theories with minor tweaks.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Some interesting points made:

- The prevalence of conspiracies is not on the rise. The conversation about conspiracies is on the rise. When the host pushed back on this, the researcher explained liberal media wants you to believe it's on the rise among the right.
- One example of that ^ was this idea that QAnon was this growing juggernaut of a conspiracy theory, when only like 5% of Republicans ever accepted it.
- Both sides are pretty indistinguishable in their acceptance of conspiracies, it's just the kinds of conspiracies that are different.
- He made a funny point with like 5 different hosts from The View as examples. They took turns delving into different conspiracies (Rosie with 9/11, McCarthy with vaccines, etc.)
- We don't have a ton of comparable data from the distant past, but one interesting thing he showed was that just after the JFK assassination, about 50% didn't believe lone gunmen and within a decade it was at something like 83%. It's now down in the 50's, and he said in the 20 years he's been polling, he has never found a conspiracy with more than 55% acceptance. This gives a lot of context to the data that only 5% of right-wingers accepted QAnon.
- There are almost never any novel conspiracy theories. Usually it's the same old theories with minor tweaks.
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I'd say mccarthy was very accurate
 
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