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Matt Wilson's avatar

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jlalbrecht's avatar

My own conspiracy theory (I think I posted last week on UI) is that the leak to Seymour Hersch was approved by the White House to provoke Russia into attacking the US. Ukraine will lose the war if NATO is not directly involved. Provoking Russia to attack, or at least into doing something the US can somehow claim was an attack, would allow the US to - as usual - say we are "dragged into the war."

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OverweightOutdoorsman's avatar

1898 USS Maine accidental sinking from onboard coal explosion (ignites Spanish American war)

1941 FDR notified Japan was attacking and did nothing (Pearl Harbor attack was catalyst for joining WW2)

1964 Gulf of Tonkin attack (LBJ gets a resolution in congress and goes all in)

Iraq WMD 2003 (Need I say more?)

US Blows up pipeline (Hmmm? Yup! It fits)

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Moe Strausberg's avatar

Before we remember The Maine we must remember the WAR. Mark Twain kept journals and covered the Philippines. He told us who were the savages and who were the civilized. That is why the humour awards are named for America's greatest journalist and the journalism awards are named for a publishing and Newspaper magnate.

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Charles Main's avatar

Perfectly plausible. It's what has been done so often in our names by so few.

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nobunny's avatar

I think it's quite obvious now that our alien reptilian overloads are defending themselves from other UFO invaders. They surely see the easy prey of deluded and vulnerable and want in on the action.

Thank goodness for cold-blooded Chuck Todd.

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nobunny's avatar

Don't blame me I voted for Kodos.

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Medium Bad's avatar

Lastly. The Patriot Act was a huge legal document over 600 pages that fundamentally changed the rights of every US citizen and yet in the midst of still clearing the rubble. The fires weren’t even out out yet, this massive document was not only formulated, transcribed and typed in less than 4 business days. And passed unanimously with zero discussion. How was such a document manufactured from scratch in 32 business hours? If not already written and waiting to be implemented and why doesn’t anyone talk about this?

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William Yonan's avatar

No one is permitted to talk about this, or the other incredulous government assertions about 911

Certainly this is banned in the MSM

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Medium Bad's avatar

I still wonder why the CIA let a bunch of Saudis into the US they were tracking from places like Indonesia and set up shop in San Diego and the official excuse for not notifying the FBI of suspected terrorists in the US was because of inter departmental rivalry. Is that it? The CIA is the most sophisticated spy agency in the world who tracked suspected terrorists into San Diego and then just said “Oh okay” and ten did nothing. And here we are today stuck in forever wars and a military, wall st, Washington troika ruining the world

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David Watson's avatar

We don't really make a lot of sense on Earth. Everything else seems to have a ready-made set of stuff to do. We start wars over ideas. Maybe we are the alien species.

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Charles Main's avatar

We are the species in control now, even of the evolution or extinction of all the others, except the ones that evolve fast enough to adapt to our technology (viruses, anyone?), although we have no fucking idea what we are doing.

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Medium Bad's avatar

How does somebody get convicted for sex trafficking but to no one? And why has Epstein’s black book been sealed by the courts? Where are all the blackmail videos Epstein catalogued for decades?

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William Yonan's avatar

The biggest Conspiracy Theory I know of comes from the entire MSM is that Russia invaded the Ukraine unprovoked in any way

And that Putin is insane, Satan incarnate, likes mass murder, and wants to recreate the Soviet Union

Second biggest Conspiracy Theory is that Russia blew up their own pipeline (even though all they needed to do was close the spigot at their end

99% of the American population believes these two Conspiracy theories

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Medium Bad's avatar

It’s never been made clear. Certainly not as clear as the other planes that were crashed into buildings what actually crashed into the Pentagon, if crashed was even what happened. This conspiracy asks two questions. What actually blew up the Pentagon and why is this being glossed over like it was a plane?

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Kevan Hudson's avatar

Welcome to the era of social contagion.

Anxiety, fear and panic whether it be balloons in the sky, climate change, Covid, gender ideology, Trump, etc.

It was more fun when everything from climate change to UFOs were the realm of a few devotees.

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Bookers's avatar

My favorite conspiracy theory is that the broadcast of the moon landing is fake. I still think it's plausible that it is. To be clear I do believe America landed on the moon, but maybe not at that point or maybe that broadcast just wasn't real (we did land on the moon, but the video was taped in Hollywood or something). ,

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jason canonici's avatar

This is the one thing I'm questioning most. Why haven't we landed on the moon again?

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Medium Bad's avatar

The basic premise of my okay boomer rant is Dick Cheney is a shape shifter and has been able to shed his exo-skeleton and taken the form of Elon Musk.

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Charles Main's avatar

Too horrible to contemplate. We must pray for thy soul that thee should so think..

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todd smith's avatar

A couple conspiracy theories that were "out of the blue" to me at the time. 1. I was working with this slightly older white gal, Univ of Oregon campus, and she up and says, unprompted, that white people invented the slang language that black people use. I'm from racist St Louis, and had never heard such a thing growing up. 2. December 2016, I'm having a reasonable conversation with a guy at a bar down the street, we had both voted for Jill Stein, and I mentioned that I was reading my Sandy Hook piece at an Open Mic, and he says in a flash that Sandy Hook was a hoax; I had literally never heard this conspiracy theory before. On the pro-conspiracy side: Stephen Paddock was the first, not the last, person killed during the Mandalay Bay massacre. This is just a hunch, based on how the timelines kept changing, the bio of the "lone gunman." 9/11: Pick a card, any card. Favorite "conspiracy" movie: The Parallax View (1974).

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William Yonan's avatar

Parallax view is an excellent movie!!

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J.T. Brodland's avatar

My conspiracy is that bipartisan politics is a lie. Both sides of the aisle are in cahoots to subvert the working class. Trump, Biden, Bush, Obama, Democrat, Republican.. two sides of the same coin.. minted to fund the war industrial complex, promote global hegemony, and line the pockets of the bureaucrats who work in tandem to keep the chaos alive.

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Joe Ullman's avatar

Craziest conspiracies that the mainstream media believes: 1) Iraq had a legitimate chemical weapons plant in 1991 described/disguised as a “baby milk factory” 2) Iraq then has WMDs, 20 years later, because Dubya and the intel agencies said he does 3) TWA flight 800 spontaneously exploded in flight because of “fumes” and a “shorted wire” and then the nose cone falls off the plane, causing the plane to then rise (??) in altitude. Then the same nose cone was the glowing streak of light that hundreds of eye witnesses said was rising upwards from the horizon (!!) towards the plane before it exploded, which immediately shattered and fell. Definitely not the first terrorist aircraft strike on US soil, we’d have to wait for 9/11 for that to all unfold.

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