I’m not a conspiracy theory guy but I seen the post on 9/11 on no stupid questions and it seemed more fleshed out than I expected.
So what are conspiracy theories that turned out to be true?
And what are the most believable conspiracy theories out there?
If you’re looking for the most believable conspiracy theories out there, I’d say the one that says Jeffrey Epstein was murdered and it was covered up as a suicide is way up there.
See, it’s still a conspiracy if he committed suicide. I don’t see why people are obsessed with him being murdered, or makes no difference in the end because the chain of events leading to either outcome is pretty much the same. IMO the suicide is more lurid because all the things had to happen to give him the time, tools, and someone basically telling him to do it or someone would indeed kill him. The man knew he was fucked, and there’s zero distance between him being told and others just setting it up knowing he was suicidal anyway.
Point being - there absolutely was a conspiracy to give him opportunity, tools, and lack of monitoring so he could kill himself. The pursuit of anything to do with his associations or activities was dropped so fast it approached relativistic speeds as it vanished into the distance.
So, actually our federal prison system might just be that trash. Like super over crowded and super under funded. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a conspiracy to let him do it, but you can’t actually say there was with absolute certainty.
That’s pretty certain. On the other hand, the real conspiracy theory is that Epstein is alive and the body was a double
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Even the security cam situation is an obvious smoking gun
The only two I know to be true off the top of my head are:
The American government is spying on everyone. Which Edward Snowden showed to be true.
And the, every personal printer has a secret code on it for identification.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
So in all likelihood there are others out there yet to be uncovered.
I miss when conspiracy theories were (mostly) harmless. Black helicopters. Secret UFOs at Groom Lake. Bigfoot. Chemtrails.
Now they’re out of hand and damaging, even deadly. Vaccines containing microchips. Ineffective medications are used because it’s a conspiracy to not use them. Deadly viruses are a leftist conspiracy. Q helping sabotage the democratic process. Etc.
They’re not fun anymore. They’re getting scary.
Blame Trump for that, the moment he announced his candidacy his rancid following began flooding all conspiracy forums with their rancid cheese.
And the, every personal printer has a secret code on it for identification.
Oh god am I going to have to go back to cutting letters out of the newspaper and glueing them on.
That a member of the Secret Service accidentally shot President Kennedy. Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed JFK - Wiki article on 1992 book putting forward the idea
It was Jackie O who pulled the trigger.
I like to think it was the bumbling, time-traveling crew of a mining ship from the far future that convinced JFK to shoot himself to protect his legacy.
What a bunch of smegheads.
Conspiracy theories I like = Time Cube, Birds Arent Real, Roswell Rods, Reptilian Shapeshifters
Conspiracy theories I hate = Qanon, Agenda 21, Plandemic, Elders of Zion
Conspiracy theories that seem to be very complex/fleshed out = Fake Moon Landing, Jet Fuel Doesn’t Melt Steel Beams, Gangstalking
Conspiracy theories that turned out to be true = Tobacco company cover ups, US govt spying on people, various assassinations and political destabilization efforts eg assassination of Lumumba, carpet bombing of Laos, Operation Condor, weird shit like Israel facilitating the funding of Hamas.
Jet fuel doesn’t have to liquefy steel beams, it has to heat them enough to warp them beyond the structural integrity needed to hold up a fucking skyscraper
The whole jet fuel can’t melt steel beams theory also requires a flawed understanding of thermodynamics to work. A fire’s fuel is just part of the equation needed for temperature output. A coal fire will naturally burn around 900c, but with the proper air flow behind it, you can increase it to 1200c.
The theory is also dependent on people assuming that jet fuel is the primary combustion material, instead of what it really was, the primary ignition source. It was the early 00’s, a time before the age of digital storage, and that building had literally tons of paper in their storage rooms. Office fires are known to get very hot, there are plenty of pictures on the Internet of steel joists in an office building “melting” from just a regular old paper fire.
Finally, there is a difference between heat and temperature. Heat is the rate of which energy is transferred to material, temperature is how hot or cold something is. Meaning a large cooler fire may transfer more heat energy to a structure than a smaller hotter fire. It’s the equivalence of throwing a bar of iron in a bonfire compared to heating one end of the iron bar with a torch.
@Shalakushka just to be clear I’m not advocating any of these theories. I didn’t know what else to call that conspiracy theory.
Someone once handed me a DVD on the street and it had about 2 hours of interviews with engineers, diagrams, mathematics, etc on it so that’s my definition of fleshed out.
It’s not fleshed out because they got a bunch of idiots to talk on camera, and that’s basically the whole fucking problem right there. Conspiracy theories are anti knowledge.
The concept of conspiracy theories as you understand it is a ruse, a misinformation tool.
Look up mk ultra, and some of the other shit the cia has actually gotten up to.
Or hemmingway, being paranoid and crazy. Ah, turns out they were following him and fucking with him, even inside the loony bin!
Nowadays you get qanon and other obviously stupid bullshit rolled under the conspiracy theory label, and that’s the fucking point
So sinclair, the one company that runs basically all major news outlets in the US, can discredit anything with one turn of phrase.
So like yeah, you’re kinda right. But there is real, fucked up shit that gets swept under that label, and ignored at large because of it.
@Shalakushka no, my point is it was full of diagrams and calculations and crap. I wish I could just show it to you.
I’m not talking about some Ancient Aliens style talking heads and dramatic music. It was on a par with that stuff the Moon landings people get up to with crosshairs analysis and speeds.
You still sound like you think I am somehow agreeing with these theories on some level? I don’t get why.
An idea needs more than a bunch of content made for it to be genuinely fleshed out. It has to try to address counter-arguments. Like, for instance, how it doesn’t matter what fuel you use to generate heat in an enclosed space. The temperature an oven reaches is not dependent on what fuel you use to heat it, it’s dependent on how well the space insulates and retains heat.
You can melt steel with a wood fire, in an appropriate oven.
@Candelestine they do though, they have huge arguments about all of it and they try to rebutt everything. They’re like the flat earth people.
I think some of you have only noticed this particular theory in its flaccid form.
With the big theories there’s often a soft and hard version. Eg covid vax conspiracies have a soft form (mouth-breathers talking about cellphone towers) and a hard form (people who somehow have medical degrees producing papers using microscopology of blood to claim angular objects in it are nanotech).
Care to share any of this? Sounds to me like fake meme-ey stuff. Can even post it in the local science community if you want, I’m sure we’d be interested over there.
Different fuels absolutely burn at different temps.
I’m a welder and a blacksmith.
When you’re using coal, you use an easily ignitable fuel, like wood or naptha to get the coal to burn.
The coal burns hotter and is harder i start than your starter fuel, and cannot be started with just a spark.
The coal burns down into coke, a totally different substance, which burns hotter than the coal.
Even still, on your third level of fuel, in order to actually get steel to a workable temp, you’ve got to add more oxygen, to make it burn even faster and hotter.
This is all inside a forge, a device that’s well insulated and made to heat steel to a workable temp.
There are other fuels that can be made to work, and they all also require blower fans, to add more oxygen.
Or in the case of an oxy/acetelne cutting torch, a bottle of pure o2
Charcoal, derived from wood in a similar fashion to coke from coal, can sort of be used, but does not and will not burn hot enough for anything much larger than a spoon, and aimply can’t get hot enough for forge welding.
Now, essentially a giant housefire, getting hot enough to get those steel beams to fail? Sure!
Why’d they collapse from the bottom, that wasn’t on fire?
Depends entirely on the design and structure of your forge. Heat can be added in unlimited quantities, and so long as it cannot escape through any openings or through anything weakly insulating, it will simply accumulate … and accumulate … and accumulate, as you add more and more joules. The temp will get hotter … and hotter … and hotter. What your source of heat is, is irrelevant. This is how the interior of your car gets hotter than the surroundings on a sunny day, despite the source being the same, yes? Containment of the slowly-accumulating heat.
It’s like weight. It doesn’t matter how heavy a hippo is, if we keep adding hippo … after hippo … after hippo to a set of scales, we can eventually reach whatever weight, yes? Accumulation, not individual hippo weight, is what matters. Heat in a forge is no different, assuming your forge contains all the heat produced properly.
And they didn’t, they collapsed starting higher up. Check an unedited video.
Conspiracy theories that turned out to be true
My favourite of these is MK Ultra
@bionicjoey The Men Who Stare At Goats blew my mind. It seems way too nutty to be real.
Time Cube?
A theory created by a schizophrenic dude claiming that we’re being educated to stay ignorant of the true nature of time, which can make us immortal.
I thought gangstalking was just people thinking they’re stalked by some 3 letter agencies. They are more elaborate than that?
@RandomStickman way more elaborate! They have all these theories about technology and techniques stalkers use on them. Also gangstalking involves a lot ofstalkers and they have theories about how we get recruited to stalk them.
I once stumbled across one of their forums back before everything moved to message app groups. For example they were talking about this new tech some of them had apparently noticed, that allows stalkers to see them through walls.
Not only were they giving accounts of it happening, they were also talking about how they thought the tech probably worked and what are the tell-tale signs you can look for to see if it is being used on you.
Putin did 9/99 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombings
if you even want to call it a conspiracy theory, that is
This event is a sterling example of a false flag, the target, the response, all scream ‘Let’s strike fear into our own people’.
Sorry to re-direct you to
hellsiterexxit, but there’s this one guy who always posts the same time when these things are posted on the old place: Diana Ross and Smokey Robinson are Michael Jackson’s real parents. I don’t know that he’s convinced me, but it’s an interesting theory.Damn, that’s a good one.
That’s a ton of evidence there that I’m not going to verify in any way. Very compelling!
JFK’s assassination was planned with Johnson’s involvement because of Kennedy’s plans to withdraw from Vietnam. Johnson’s wife, Lady Bird, was a main stockholder of Bell helicopter and made millions off of defense contracts from the war.
At this point, it’d almost be more interesting to learn about the handful of Americans who weren’t conspiring to kill JFK.
I read one about the shot that killed him being accidentally fired by a secret service agent while reacting to the first shot.
If there’s a cover up, this is the one that makes the most sense to me. It aligns with Occam’s Razor; it’s simple and understandable why it would be hidden. Edit: posted with more detail elsewhere in the thread: https://lemmy.world/comment/7523091
I think this is also the moment that began the rise of cynicism and bipartisanship in the country that eventually gave is Reagan.
If what you say is true, then it should be considered a high crime against the United States.
But of course, we will never know the actual truth on this.
Peta is a front by the meat industry, to discredit vegans and environmentalists.
I can almost believe this one…
I guess it’s technically part of the larger “Q-Anon” stuff, but I particularly like the one that says liberals have an underground submarine base under Central Park in NYC where they go to drink baby blood.
Where are you liberals organizing all of this stuff? Is there a Discord chat or something? Can I get an invite?
Lick a horny toad, dive deep into the cavernous tavern, it will be beamed to you in a vision
I don’t have any good “real” ones that haven’t already been posted here, but you should check out The Illuminatus! Trilogy (https://a.co/d/6hqz5kX). It has elements of nearly all the popular conspiracy theories around at the time it was written, plus it makes up a few more, and then wraps them all up neatly with a bow.
Oh man that is such a fun series of books to read high, and is kind of a modern religious allegory.
CoIntelPro.
Just, go look.
Well that’s hardly a theory, it’s proven fact at this point
Try telling that to the magahats
Denver Airport
I’m hesitant about this one only because I find it hard to believe the rich and powerful would want to SHARE a bunker. Just doesn’t sit right with me
The octonauts are secretly the HYDRA youth recruitment division
Alex Jones and David Icke are CIA assets.
Micheal Hastings was murdered
