Posted on 06/01/2022 5:15:29 AM PDT by Theoria
Share your experience if you, a friend or a family member believes or once believed in a popular conspiracy theory.
Conspiracy theories have become an increasingly common problem in the United States. From the QAnon movement to misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines, many Americans have accepted ideas that are not backed by science or fact.
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Conspiracy theories can be a lot of fun as crowd-sourced fiction, but it is a problem for some people who become addicted to them and let them influence real-life decisions.
I have a big list of people who believed in various Russian related conspiracies. I think I’ll pass it along to the Slimes.
“Share your experience if you, a FRIEND or a FAMILY member....
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We will not publish YOUR name with your submission without getting YOUR consent.”
In other words, give us the names of all your friends and family that don’t toe-the-line on our narrative and in return we’ll make sure nobody knows it was YOU that reported them.
How very Nazi of them. ...but Russia! Russia! Russia!
LOL!
They do with the Russian/Trump collusion hoax.
Here’s a conspiracy theory. The NYT will do anything to prevent Trump from being in power.
Mockingbirds on a fishing expedition to identify Winston Smiths for the coming round up.
Yes, I once believed Trump colluded with Russia and got a Pulitzer Prize when I wrote my delusions.
“Do you read us? I mean like are you reading us right now.”
RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!
2000 Mules
Some believe the events in DC on 1/6/21 constituted an insurrection. Some believe Joe Biden to be a legitimate President. Still others believe the United States Department of Justice is incorrupt and incorruptible. I could go on. The NYT subcribes to all those conspiracy theories and more.
A false conspiracy theory (hoax) is generated by the same organizations now asking US to explain our belief and then disbelief in them... as if they don’t know where they come from.
If you (the government) want to discredit a VIABLE and TRUE conspiracy theory, you simply generate 1000 fake ones which are easily debunked, and you eventually discredit all of the valid ones.
It’s also known as a psy-op. A very long running one.
Question... does our government engage in psy-op operations against it’s people to cover up corruption???
I guess this is just another good example of a conspiracy theory.
Here's six conspiracy theories Stuart A. Thompson - enjoy:
People believed Trump had hookers pee on a bed... Of course that conspiracy was debunked...
Second debunked conspiracy: Trump was working with Russians against the United States... Stuart should check his newsroom -there's might several tinfoil hat 'believers' in his own newsroom.
Then there was the SPLC story most police murders were being done by White Middle Class men. The fact that cop deaths are always investigated and made public didn't stop this conspiracy theory...
A more recent one: inflation - a horrible tax on the most vulnerable - was 'transitory'. A large group of tin foil hat types in a large white house in DC still believe it.
The ugliest conspiracy theory?
That if feathers are surgically inserted under a person skin, that person becomes a bird. Unfortunately real birds never accept the person. Oh wait, it's not birds - it's people. The conspiracy is that if a person is sexually mutilated they can be 'reborn' the opposite sex.
And last but not least, there's a belief that to stop 'penis violence' (rape) the solution is to take away the rights of all men to have sex by chemically castrating them.
OK Stuart A. Thompson - that's a list for you and the New York Times newsroom folks... if you need more information about the types of people who believe the above, do a shout our in the room you're sitting in...
Here's six conspiracy theories Stuart A. Thompson - enjoy:
People believed Trump had hookers pee on a bed... Of course that conspiracy was debunked... but there are still believers.
Second debunked conspiracy: Trump was working with Russians against the United States... Stuart should check out his newsroom - there could be several tinfoil hat 'believers' in his own newsroom.
Then there was the SPLC story that most police murders were being done by White Middle Class men. The fact that cop deaths are always investigated and made public didn't stop this conspiracy theory...
A more recent one: inflation - a horrible tax on the most vulnerable - was 'transitory'. A large group of tin foil hat types in a large white house in DC still believe it.
The ugliest conspiracy theory?
That if feathers are surgically inserted under a person skin, that person becomes a bird. Unfortunately real birds never accept the person. Oh wait, it's not birds - it's people. The conspiracy is that if a person is sexually mutilated they can be 'reborn' the opposite sex.
And last but not least, there's a belief that to stop 'penis violence' (rape) the solution is to take away the rights of all men to have sex by chemically castrating them.
OK Stuart A. Thompson - that's a list for you and the New York Times newsroom folks... if you need more information about the types of people who believe the above, do a shout out in the room you're sitting in...
White supremacy is the greatest threat to our nation.
Joe Biden
it’ll be fun to see what they claim were false
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