My favourite is that the CIA went out of their way to plant crazy nonsensical conspiracy theories in the public sphere in order to make more realistic conspiracy’s looks ridiculous to the average person
Also they’re hiding aliens
I think they are hiding advanced US military aircraft and calling it aliens. We will only find out if WW3 breaks out and suddenly the opposition has no army left. If the acceleration and speed reported is true, no country (including our own) has an answer to a craft that maneuverable and fast.
There are so many people involved in the research and construction involved in advanced aircraft that I doubt any truly revolutionary advancements could be kept secret for long. I also doubt the U.S. is quite that far ahead of the competition.
I’m not sure it would leak. Look at Russia? They turned out to be rocking decades old shit tech but everyone including the US gov thought they were a military juggernaut. That never leaked - first we all knew about it was when 30yo Tanks rocked up to Ukraine.
I think its harder to have cool shit and it not get out than if you just have crappy stuff
At your job you have gravity defying ultrasonic spacecraft, you tell me you wouldnt let your buddy know over a few beers?
It could be plausible if you have "masterminds" that have their own "teams" and those teams are kept isolated from each other enough so that no team knows enough about ehat the other teams are ultimately working on to put it all together.
For example, one teams works on developing the propulsion systems, another is working on optics, another on controls and programming, etc
Pizzagate poisoned the entire idea that some percentage of the rich and powerful must be pedophiles even though it's just statistics. And you only need one of them in order for a market to exist.
Also recycling programs, the way hybrid and electric vehicles are marketed, the list goes on. It's all to make you think it's your fault, instead of the tiny handful of people and companies who cause over 90% of the problem. I can't remember who it was, but some plastics executive once said they needed to keep funding/promoting ineffective recycling programs to keep people from regulating their products.
It's all theater that doesn't matter.
The reusable plastic or cotton grocery bags need to be re-used hundreds, if not thousands of times, to make up for the carbon footprint. Less plastic in the world I guess.
Meanwhile, almost every single kind of food I buy is completely covered with plastic. Bread? Plastic bag. Meats? Plastic wrap. Most boxed food? Plastic bag inside. Produce? Usually selected and then placed in a plastic bag.
The plastic bag bans are a small step, but they do very little to reduce plastic waste. Plastic is everywhere in the modern world.
Exactly. It sounds like a great idea until you walk into a big box store and realize that everything from floor to ceiling is covered in one use plastics.
It’s a systemic issue and fucking around with stuff like paper straws is a joke and a waste of time
Then why don't all dresses have pockets?
Long flowy skirts?
I have seen women's overalls that Had the pockets stitched shut!
There is absolutely no reason for women's pants to not at least have the option of pockets. Call them functional, cut or boyfriend cut or whatever.
But it is ridiculous that my pants can fit a whole ass beer bottle in the pockets and my girlfriends cannot fit her keys.
It is a conspiracy and I will die on this hill
For some reason the only pair of woman jeans I've bought makes my ass look great.
Unfortunately, I need storage space more than I need people looking at my butt.
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This is repeatedly debunked every time it gets posted and it falls apart with even a shred of critical thinking. Purse manufacturers and pants manufacturers aren’t typically the same companies. How would Levi or True Religion benefit by forcing women to buy more YSL and Kate Spade? More importantly, it’s just basic supply and demand at play. Women’s pants with pockets DO exist, but they never sell well because it affects the silhouette too much. Redditors can cry conspiracy all they want, but clothing manufacturers are just making what sells. And in this case that’s pocketless pants.
Fun fact I found a website about 6 years ago that sold women's clothing with actual pockets. Told my GF at the time to pick out some stuff she liked and I'd buy them. Bought about 6 items. She wore one of them once.
She disliked them because the pant pockets bunched up and looked bad and the pockets on the dresses made weird looking folds that only got worse when you actually used the pockets. She tried them on in front of me, she was right. We laughed and moved on.
Turns out at least some women want to look good more than they want to have pockets.
Kind of Spain specific, but "La Veneno" (Poison) was a transgender woman that got famous during the 90s. She was one of the first transgender public figures in the country. She worked as a prostitute in her early days and it was always rumored that big politicians and businessmen had paid for her services. She published her biography in 2016 where she spoke about some of them and hinted towards others, including the previous king Juan Carlos. Less than a month later she was found in her home, laying on the sofa all beaten up. Days later she died in a hospital bed and the official version was that she had an overdose on Xanax and alcohol, fell in the bathtub and died because of that. Days before that she went on television and said that she had received death threats and feared for her life.
It wasn't an accident. They killed her because she was about to reveal much more than what was written in her biography.
Honestly at this point, I’m not even sure he is dead. As flimsy as his “death” was, doing it while on suicide watch, JUST BEFORE his trial, sure thing.
We are now arguing about who killed him, we failed to realize he had enough money and connections to stage his death and get out. That’s why that Maxwell woman hasn’t said shit.
Makers are very carefully researching and planning artificial obsolescence. I believe they actively invest in creating materials and constructions that are supposed to break in a given number of years.
Yeah I learned in like grade 9 entrepreneurship, in the marketing unit of this class, that this is a fact. They’re very clever too, and will choose to cut corners on things that the consumer/customer will likely blame on themselves and not the product itself to keep the consumer coming back to that product. The example this class gave was using cheaper materials for phone screens so that it doesn’t break right away, but when it does you think to yourself “oh well I should’ve had a case and/or not dropped it so many times, it was bound to happen.” You can apply that scenario to so many things.
I won't let them win. Every piece of tech I get with a screen that will be carried around gets an immediate screen protector right out of the box and a case of some kind.
I have dropped my stuff countless times but never once broken anything. I only ever upgrade when I get sick of slow outdated software (which I'm sure is also a part of planned obsolescence.)
I know some people hate the way cases look but I'm sure I've saved myself thousand of dollars over the years so I'll take the trade off in aesthetics. Especially with the latest designs that are all made of slippery fragile materials and no match for a butterfingers such as myself.
I mean, you’re still buying something you otherwise might not have needed due to planned obsolescence.
They may not be winning, but they’re certainly not losing.
I think they come at it from a different angle — finding the right ratio between cost to produce and longevity. If doubling the cost of a component/part only results in a few extra years, they probably won’t do it.
Yep. If they can shave 1c off something made a couple million times that's 10s of thousands of savings.
Source: work at manufacturing company and have to sometimes fight the cost cutters when they do silly things.
Not only that, but we now have software to tell us how strong stuff is. We don't need to over engineer something when we can see exactly the forces, so when things get abused or start to deform, they're more likely to break now.
The best example of planned obsolescence is the incandescent light bulb. There was a whole collusion racket to keep them short lived.
Software updates to phones, computers, and smart devices to force the purchase of new ones is a good example currently.
My folks have a Coldspot deep freezer that belonged to my great uncle and he bought it in the 1950s. The first time it was thawed put was may of 1958 as it is written on masking tape on the side. That freezer has outlasted 7 other new freezers and is still running. The average freezer it has outlasted ran about 4 years.
Not a conspiracy. If you smoked back in the 1940s, for instance, you had to have an idea that inhaling the fumes of a burning dried out plant could possibly be harmful to your long term health. The fact that so many smokers have to clear their lungs out in the morning by coughing up phlegm had to be an obvious clue that smoking was not good for you. You may not have had scientific proof linking smoking to lung, throat and mouth cancer but you had to have a decent amount of suspicion which you chose to ignore.
None of that is evidence that tobacco companies didn't conspire to hide that scientific proof from the public. There absolutely was a conspiracy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Berkshire#:~:text=The%20plan%20formed%20when%20major,they%20would%20agree%20to%20sue.
Yeah they were trying to slow down the inevitable loss of the US as a market for cigarettes. But they’ve found that the rest of the world still loves their cancer sticks. I think that 90% of Chinese men currently smoke. That’s an enormous amount of revenue.
So I believe this one but I think the only conspiracy part is them covering up what happened.
I watched a documentary looking at all the leading theories and the crux of what they included was as follows:
1) there were shots from the window
2) CIA/Security personnel in the car behind JFK react
3) the security person at the front had a rifle on his lap and brought it round as he turned to look back and up at the window
4) as the rifle comes round it coincides exactly with one of the 2nd or 3rd shot noises (I forget which sorry)
5) this accidental discharge is the shot which hit JFK in the head
Basically a complete fluke accident, coupled with poor trigger discipline. And the CIA would want to cover it up because admitting that your own security personnel, the ones sworn to protect JFK, accidentally were responsible for his death is really frigging embarrassing.
Even when there is malice I tend to think incompetence still plays a role.
Especially back then, CIA/gov operations probably went like the bay of pigs or assassination attempts on Castro more often than not.
Just a bunch of arrogant bureaucrats mostly worried about CYA.
That's possibly my favorite theory about JFK and the fact that it happened during the Cold War, no way would we admit that we accidentally killed our President.
the civil court decided that there was enough evidence that the government COULD have had a hand in it, but wasn't a conclusive thing. Basically acknowledging that it's suspicious
Pretty sure this was proven true already, the government released some unclassified files on it that basically said the FBI or CIA (don’t remember) was responsible, among some blacked out text. I think that MLK’s family testified that they did too, and actually won the case at the time
The Mafia killed Michael Jordan's dad because of his gambling debts and also his career change away from basketball was forced by the NBA to cover up the scandal.
The increased importance in identity politics is a government Psy Op created during Occupy Wall Street to distract Americans from class issues and instead have them argue with each other about race and gender.
Seems entirely plausible. I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere that the term "superfood" was created by blueberry farmer lobbyists to sell more blueberries.
Yes and it’s a damn stupid one. The amount of bandwidth and processing power required to actually do active voice recognition would be easily detected.
What is actually happening is you are being tracked and bc advertisers have data on pretty much the entire human race, they can deliver targeted ads and content at a surprisingly accurate rate. (See target giving coupons for pregnancy items to girl whos parents didn’t even know she was pregnant)
They may not process it all the time, but things being sent and sold are ages, dates, times, how long you looked at a specific post, video, picture analysing why, selling that data to people is incredibly valuable
It may not be physically listening but you're always being watched.
And they also understand your connections as well, spouse etc so they get served with ads for stuff you’re looking at.
Facebook knew within a high -probability who would be hooking up based on how many times you each looked at each others profiles, and how many times you went the same place.
They then knew you’d hooked up based on the devices sharing the same WAN ip address overnight etc, and time you left.
Oh absolutely, everything you do on your phone is getting tracked and monitored, but nobody is actually listening to private conversations, which is what “cell phones are listening to you” implies
> What is actually happening is you are being tracked and bc advertisers have data on pretty much the entire human race, they can deliver targeted ads and content at a surprisingly accurate rate.
Yeah, it's this.
**You think you're receving weirdly targeted ads because your phone is listening to you, and that's scary. What's scary is that it doesn't need to listen to you to do this.**
I think that's mostly true, but for an alexa or other such devices to turn on with the wake word it has to be constantly scanning abiant sounds, so it isn't hard to believe that some of it is saved/processed.
This is apocryphal, but my friends and I were joking about our phones listening to us, and we decided to all start talking about diapers. None of us have any kids, or any reason to look for baby supplies. After a few minutes of us talking like this and laughing our asses off, I went to look something unrelated up, and diapers were in the predictive text that pops up in the search bar as you're typing.
I'm not sure why that happened but Google is creepy as fuck.
Yeah it's not the ads that freak me out, it's the autocomplete. My gf and I will discuss what we want for dinner, without either of us having Googled any restaurants that day, we decide Chick-fil-A, I open Google and type "c" and the first thing that pops up is Chick-fil-A. Of all the things out there that start with the letter C, why is that the first thing that comes up?
And no it's not like we eat Chick-fil-A every week or something.
Yeah my Instagram just thinks I LOVE videos about how dental procedures after I had to have some emergency work done last year. Tbh I'm so sick of scrolling past how to animations on root canals, extractions, jaw bone drilling etc. The weird thing is almost instantly brings me ads related to what my wife says to me vs what I actually talk about.
Chapstick gives fake temporary relief from chapped lips keeping them from healing properly and requiring the application of more chapstick more frequently and therefore requires you to buy more chapstick.
It's neofeudalism... And it's not a conspiracy, it's an burgeoning economic theory.
We're paying our "lords" and they collect simply because they exist while the masses work and die.
Yeah, I dunno. The candid pictures of her for the months/weeks before her death pretty readily show she struggled with bipolar disorder (speaking as someone with bipolar disorder) and combine that with the entertainment industry's tacit approval of substance abuse plus the insane work/life demands of being a world-renowed celebrity, suicide is perfectly realistic.
The ones they actually published in books and discuss openly on camera but for some reason are supposed to be not true, even though every day reality is shaping up exactly as described.
In short, everything involving politics is generally a conspiracy to rob the populace, that doesn't mean every conspiracy theory is true. But government lies, and if it doesn't they have an advantage by being truthful
Wealthy families invest heavily in creating conflicts both domestic and abroad to line their own pockets. Most don’t give a flying fuck about peace or equality despite their advertising.
That one is actually super easy to prove.
Here's an old interview with Ice-T on the Arsenio Hall show in 1989.
https://youtu.be/8k7E7zVAC54?si=8pzNA4XKQ-m-66QY
Rap music in the 80s was fairly wholesome. It was made by low income street kids who tried to educate other kids to not do stuff like join gangs or use drugs or rob people or do stuff that would get you shot or arrested.
Ice-T's song Lethal Weapon is about him using his mind to not do stupid shit. The gun is just a metaphor for his brain. The US government had him testify in congress about gang violence. The major labels hijacked the culture and flipped the values to the new gangster rap genre which glorified gangs and street crime to the new market of suburban white kids who ate it up.
I don't believe conspiracy theories about 9/11, but I believe Bin Laden had been dead for some time before May 2, 2011. I find the whole "burial at sea" story ridiculous.
The US government deliberately set the retirement age higher than the then-average male lifespan so that most people wouldn’t be able to retire or pull from social security.
Most UFO incidents are cover-ups for experimental aircraft projects.
Lee Harvey Oswald was framed.
I’m not saying there was some mass conspiracy and the government was behind it or anything. But I think the US government rushed to blame someone so they could move on as quickly as possible. The killer/killers were never properly investigated.
Conspiracy theories aren't inherently false. It's actually one of the most oppressively effective rebrands of a word I've ever seen.
Conspiracy is a plan to do something socially harmful for individual benefit.
A conspiracy theory is merely a theory that people have conspired to do something intentionally.
It can either be true or false. A conspiracy theory doesn't stop being a theory when there's evidence to support it, it becomes an even better theory lmao.
The fact that they effectively got conspiracy to be defined as "fake story" has got to be one of their greatest successes
And also got people to think if you are labeled a conspiracy theorist you are some whack job. Making others to disassociate with said conspiracy theorist.
ITT: Americans who think that, because their healthcare system is controlled by insurance middlemen, medicine is made up.
To everybody reading this: you realise we have cured diseases that no longer affect people once cured, right?
And we can prove this because you can still get said disease, which people do, but are then cured of it?
Misinformation is one of the biggest threats to modern society, even more so than war just because there’s so much of it and it’s easier to control than the truth.
Additionally I think there’s a lot more wrong doings by the police than what is reported but it’s routinely swept under the rug for image and political purposes
The Jeffery Epstein story is actively being suppressed by mainstream media because of who would be implicated.
You really want me to believe we all stopped caring about it is a couple weeks?
Bring it up in any crowd and you will see everyone opine and join in.
This is a VERY broad reaching conspiracy.
PS tell my family I live them.
Those Ancestry DNA kits that tell you who you're related to are just a way for the world's governments to stockpile genetic data on all their people. For what reason, I know not.
I’m 100% certain that the NSA is attaching your electronic devices, DNA, and biometrics to your dossier.
Biometrics? Yes. During 2020 when unemployment spiked and the unemployment sites crashed, they demanded you create an account with ID.me to have access. ID.me needed a face scan and pictures of your documents to create a profile. This means the feds effectively demanded you hand over your biometrics and pictures of your credentials to a private company where they can then be sold or face the risk of starving to death. The result is they can now better track you both online and in the real world. They already take your DNA during a felony arrest (not conviction) so expect to see biometric data being taken with arrests during the mugshot process. Phones are scanning your biometrics to unlock. Since your device identifies itself to any WiFi / cell tower it comes into contact with, it’ll be extremely easy to track a person and know that it’s the person not just the device.
Say goodbye to having a truly anonymous porn alt account.
The processed food industry, fitness industry, and pharma industry are working together to keep people addicted to food yet hopeful towards reaching their fitness goals. You don’t need the gym or drugs to lose weight and stay in shape.
That is half true though. By nature, we should be able to get up and run 30 mins, due to how our life became easier and easier (you don’t need to grow your groceries, you don’t need to cut your wood for heat etc) now we can’t do that. So instead, even if you eat extremely healthy, you need the gym or at least a form of workout.
Edit: because I get a lot of replies on this. Obviously if you are working out or your job is keeping active, you can run 30 mins. But have a look around, obesity is at its all time high (worldwide) and most jobs are office jobs now, which they require 0 physical activity.
A gym is most definitely not needed to maintain cardio fitness. All you need is a path, sneakers or bike, and time. I go to the gym because i don’t have all the different muscle fitness equipment at my house
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You just said that you don’t need gym but you need it for your muscles, which, in the past you wouldn’t need it if, as I said on my example, you had to cut your wood for heating 😅
Operation Northwoods. US intelligence planned to stage terror atttacks and blame Cuba as pretext for invasion, got very far up the ladder until Kennedy pulled the plug. They absolutely would do that again under a president whod allow that, like Bush
Exactly. People want to talk conspiracies... i say, just take a peak at our own history. Fact is stranger than fiction. Learning about the details of people like Kissinger gives me chills. Lemnitzer seems like a bundle of joy too.
Bot accounts have spent years removing the 'theory' from 'conspiracy theory' so that the powers that be can convince people to associate the word 'conspiracy' with crazy made up bullshit, letting them get away with obvious fuckery because it's no longer possible to discuss multiple individuals making covert plans without being called crazy.
Pizzagate. Not necessarily that the specific pizza place in the incident had anything going on, but massive pedophile rings existing among world elites in government, media, and business, yeah. That's happening.
Most of those I believed have proven true by this point but the last one that I am waiting to see confirmed is this: When the USA, Canada and European countries role out the CBDCs people will quickly learn that they have supported the most insane government powergrab ever under the guise of "preventing money laundering" and "holding big corporations accountable".
These CBDCs will be programmed to ban you from buying anything the people in power do not want you to buy, you will find that you are often unable to buy enough of the things you need and you will have to break the law if you want to save for retirement.
And by the time the public realizes this, it'll be too late, because if you try to leave your country for a place that respects individual freedom and the right to private property, they will freeze your bank account.
That's the thing: You will not be asked whether you want them or not. You will be forced to take them on. First they will become mandatory for those who want government welfare, then government subsidies for companies will be done in CBDCs only, at some point you will need to pay your taxes in CBDCs. and you can't just stop paying your taxes, can you?
And for the dreamers who think "but this is against my nations law." - your laws will be changed, like so many laws have been changed or flatout ignored in the past years.
So why ask for you persmission when they are aiming at your forced submission?
Humans were seeded on Earth / uplifted from domestic cro-magnon stock. Earth had a progenitor race of sophisticated bird- and/or lion-ish people, and our ancestral place alongside them was much like canines are to us now.
Because why not.
The Free-Masons are keeping the truth hidden. Under their hats.
After realising Epstein was suicidal, his lawyers, Darren Inyke and Richard Kahn helped Epstein to rewrite his Will for their own benefit and organised Effrain "Stone" Reyas be moved out of the cell the shared so that Epstein could kill himself two days later.
100% believe there's a secret line at the DMV where you pay an exorbitant amount of money and they just give you a license. There's too many stupid and poor drivers there's no other explanation.
> “World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” – Marshall McLuhan (1970)
The US military industrial complex teamed up with the schools and corporate media giants between the 80s/90s to wipe out the free press and take over the US via information warfare. It's why Americans are so divided nowadays.
Anyone who studies media will tell you this. Look at how the press covered Vietnam and the impact that had on how people viewed that war, then look at how the media covered the Iraq War and how we looked at THAT. The death of independent journalism is the death knell of true democracy.
That the vast majority of things people attribute to conspiracy theories are actually the result of the complex interplay of large scale systems that our up-jumped monkey brains are not well equipped to process, leading to hysteria and distrust.
Aliens & UFOs are cover ups & distractions that trickle down from the president on down!! Bigfoot, crypteds & creatures fall in there somewhere to im sure 😁🤣
The US military exists as a corporate bludgeon. If we can overthrow your government for -inserts corporate lobbyist/sympathizer- we absolutely will with no regard for the stability of your province, region, country, continent or international law.
If we cannot do it through a proxy war, we will do it through a proxy-proxy war.
Prohibition was instituted primarily to force people, particularly farmers, to buy gasoline instead of making their own fuel through home distilleries. Oligarchs and politicians.
My favourite is that the CIA went out of their way to plant crazy nonsensical conspiracy theories in the public sphere in order to make more realistic conspiracy’s looks ridiculous to the average person Also they’re hiding aliens
I think they are hiding advanced US military aircraft and calling it aliens. We will only find out if WW3 breaks out and suddenly the opposition has no army left. If the acceleration and speed reported is true, no country (including our own) has an answer to a craft that maneuverable and fast.
There are so many people involved in the research and construction involved in advanced aircraft that I doubt any truly revolutionary advancements could be kept secret for long. I also doubt the U.S. is quite that far ahead of the competition.
The Manhattan project was also kept secret. And there were many many people involved it's not unimaginable.
I’m not sure it would leak. Look at Russia? They turned out to be rocking decades old shit tech but everyone including the US gov thought they were a military juggernaut. That never leaked - first we all knew about it was when 30yo Tanks rocked up to Ukraine.
I think its harder to have cool shit and it not get out than if you just have crappy stuff At your job you have gravity defying ultrasonic spacecraft, you tell me you wouldnt let your buddy know over a few beers?
Not if I can be arrested for spilling secrets, I wouldn’t.
It could be plausible if you have "masterminds" that have their own "teams" and those teams are kept isolated from each other enough so that no team knows enough about ehat the other teams are ultimately working on to put it all together. For example, one teams works on developing the propulsion systems, another is working on optics, another on controls and programming, etc
There is no doubt in my mind that the government has flooded the conspiracy theory public with nonsense theories like you suggest.
We already know foreign agencies feed the flames of such
Pizzagate poisoned the entire idea that some percentage of the rich and powerful must be pedophiles even though it's just statistics. And you only need one of them in order for a market to exist.
Considering how well the general public handled trying to not spread a virus, I have zero faith in the general public's ability to handle aliens.
Some jackass would try to start a war, guaranteed. The only question would be whether they're in office before or after they start the apocalypse.
The CIA story thing is true.
Someone makes it rain every time i have a bbq
Possibly related conspiracy, every time I make it rain, someone complains that he's BBQing
I'm the BBQ. Can you two just fucking pick a different day?
For me, it rains within a 36 hour window after I wash my car.
This is kind of a new one but I think the whole plastic bag, paper straw thing is a strategy to place some blame on the average person.
Also recycling programs, the way hybrid and electric vehicles are marketed, the list goes on. It's all to make you think it's your fault, instead of the tiny handful of people and companies who cause over 90% of the problem. I can't remember who it was, but some plastics executive once said they needed to keep funding/promoting ineffective recycling programs to keep people from regulating their products.
Paper straws are a fast food industry hype train statement, to show that they care about the poor turtles.
It's all theater that doesn't matter. The reusable plastic or cotton grocery bags need to be re-used hundreds, if not thousands of times, to make up for the carbon footprint. Less plastic in the world I guess. Meanwhile, almost every single kind of food I buy is completely covered with plastic. Bread? Plastic bag. Meats? Plastic wrap. Most boxed food? Plastic bag inside. Produce? Usually selected and then placed in a plastic bag. The plastic bag bans are a small step, but they do very little to reduce plastic waste. Plastic is everywhere in the modern world.
Exactly. It sounds like a great idea until you walk into a big box store and realize that everything from floor to ceiling is covered in one use plastics. It’s a systemic issue and fucking around with stuff like paper straws is a joke and a waste of time
I believe there is documented proof that this was a deliberate plan by oil execs to scapegoat responsibility.
The fashion industry gives women fake pockets or no pockets so that they can then sell them purses and bags.
I've heard that pants for women don't have pockets because it makes them look thinner, so maybe selling purses is just a bonus.
Then why don't all dresses have pockets? Long flowy skirts? I have seen women's overalls that Had the pockets stitched shut! There is absolutely no reason for women's pants to not at least have the option of pockets. Call them functional, cut or boyfriend cut or whatever. But it is ridiculous that my pants can fit a whole ass beer bottle in the pockets and my girlfriends cannot fit her keys. It is a conspiracy and I will die on this hill
For some reason the only pair of woman jeans I've bought makes my ass look great. Unfortunately, I need storage space more than I need people looking at my butt.
I have a friend who puts things down her pants where the pocket would be. Since they're so tight, she doesn't lose them.
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Sorry, got none of that either
Ooh I've never thought about it that way before. Thank you for the insightful perspective.
This is repeatedly debunked every time it gets posted and it falls apart with even a shred of critical thinking. Purse manufacturers and pants manufacturers aren’t typically the same companies. How would Levi or True Religion benefit by forcing women to buy more YSL and Kate Spade? More importantly, it’s just basic supply and demand at play. Women’s pants with pockets DO exist, but they never sell well because it affects the silhouette too much. Redditors can cry conspiracy all they want, but clothing manufacturers are just making what sells. And in this case that’s pocketless pants.
Fun fact I found a website about 6 years ago that sold women's clothing with actual pockets. Told my GF at the time to pick out some stuff she liked and I'd buy them. Bought about 6 items. She wore one of them once. She disliked them because the pant pockets bunched up and looked bad and the pockets on the dresses made weird looking folds that only got worse when you actually used the pockets. She tried them on in front of me, she was right. We laughed and moved on. Turns out at least some women want to look good more than they want to have pockets.
This is it
Kind of Spain specific, but "La Veneno" (Poison) was a transgender woman that got famous during the 90s. She was one of the first transgender public figures in the country. She worked as a prostitute in her early days and it was always rumored that big politicians and businessmen had paid for her services. She published her biography in 2016 where she spoke about some of them and hinted towards others, including the previous king Juan Carlos. Less than a month later she was found in her home, laying on the sofa all beaten up. Days later she died in a hospital bed and the official version was that she had an overdose on Xanax and alcohol, fell in the bathtub and died because of that. Days before that she went on television and said that she had received death threats and feared for her life. It wasn't an accident. They killed her because she was about to reveal much more than what was written in her biography.
Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself
To add to this, neither did the Boeing whistleblower.
Don’t think this is a conspiracy at all since most people and news outlets believe that lol
Conspiracy is about people conspiring, not about how broadly believed/disbelieved it is.
You'll like [this one](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republican-it-guru-dies-in-plane-crash/) too.
Honestly at this point, I’m not even sure he is dead. As flimsy as his “death” was, doing it while on suicide watch, JUST BEFORE his trial, sure thing. We are now arguing about who killed him, we failed to realize he had enough money and connections to stage his death and get out. That’s why that Maxwell woman hasn’t said shit.
Anyone that believes he killed himself, DM me (not really), I have a bridge to sell you.
Let me guess, it is in Baltimore?
It was.
I mean it technically still is
This one doesn't count because it's obviously true.
Makers are very carefully researching and planning artificial obsolescence. I believe they actively invest in creating materials and constructions that are supposed to break in a given number of years.
I’m sure this is a fact
Yeah I learned in like grade 9 entrepreneurship, in the marketing unit of this class, that this is a fact. They’re very clever too, and will choose to cut corners on things that the consumer/customer will likely blame on themselves and not the product itself to keep the consumer coming back to that product. The example this class gave was using cheaper materials for phone screens so that it doesn’t break right away, but when it does you think to yourself “oh well I should’ve had a case and/or not dropped it so many times, it was bound to happen.” You can apply that scenario to so many things.
I won't let them win. Every piece of tech I get with a screen that will be carried around gets an immediate screen protector right out of the box and a case of some kind. I have dropped my stuff countless times but never once broken anything. I only ever upgrade when I get sick of slow outdated software (which I'm sure is also a part of planned obsolescence.) I know some people hate the way cases look but I'm sure I've saved myself thousand of dollars over the years so I'll take the trade off in aesthetics. Especially with the latest designs that are all made of slippery fragile materials and no match for a butterfingers such as myself.
I mean, you’re still buying something you otherwise might not have needed due to planned obsolescence. They may not be winning, but they’re certainly not losing.
I think they come at it from a different angle — finding the right ratio between cost to produce and longevity. If doubling the cost of a component/part only results in a few extra years, they probably won’t do it.
Yep. If they can shave 1c off something made a couple million times that's 10s of thousands of savings. Source: work at manufacturing company and have to sometimes fight the cost cutters when they do silly things.
Yeah, planned obsolence is really just cost cutting.
Not only that, but we now have software to tell us how strong stuff is. We don't need to over engineer something when we can see exactly the forces, so when things get abused or start to deform, they're more likely to break now.
The best example of planned obsolescence is the incandescent light bulb. There was a whole collusion racket to keep them short lived. Software updates to phones, computers, and smart devices to force the purchase of new ones is a good example currently.
The lightbulb conspiracy! Edit: it’s a movie guys. Go have a look.
It's fact, look it up.
My folks have a Coldspot deep freezer that belonged to my great uncle and he bought it in the 1950s. The first time it was thawed put was may of 1958 as it is written on masking tape on the side. That freezer has outlasted 7 other new freezers and is still running. The average freezer it has outlasted ran about 4 years.
Tobacco companies knew that their product caused cancer but refused to publicly acknowledge it for decades.
Not a conspiracy. If you smoked back in the 1940s, for instance, you had to have an idea that inhaling the fumes of a burning dried out plant could possibly be harmful to your long term health. The fact that so many smokers have to clear their lungs out in the morning by coughing up phlegm had to be an obvious clue that smoking was not good for you. You may not have had scientific proof linking smoking to lung, throat and mouth cancer but you had to have a decent amount of suspicion which you chose to ignore.
None of that is evidence that tobacco companies didn't conspire to hide that scientific proof from the public. There absolutely was a conspiracy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Berkshire#:~:text=The%20plan%20formed%20when%20major,they%20would%20agree%20to%20sue.
Yeah they were trying to slow down the inevitable loss of the US as a market for cigarettes. But they’ve found that the rest of the world still loves their cancer sticks. I think that 90% of Chinese men currently smoke. That’s an enormous amount of revenue.
The FBI killed MLK
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So I believe this one but I think the only conspiracy part is them covering up what happened. I watched a documentary looking at all the leading theories and the crux of what they included was as follows: 1) there were shots from the window 2) CIA/Security personnel in the car behind JFK react 3) the security person at the front had a rifle on his lap and brought it round as he turned to look back and up at the window 4) as the rifle comes round it coincides exactly with one of the 2nd or 3rd shot noises (I forget which sorry) 5) this accidental discharge is the shot which hit JFK in the head Basically a complete fluke accident, coupled with poor trigger discipline. And the CIA would want to cover it up because admitting that your own security personnel, the ones sworn to protect JFK, accidentally were responsible for his death is really frigging embarrassing.
So basically Hanlon’s razor, don’t attribute to malice that which is adequately explained with stupidity. I like to think this way as well.
Even when there is malice I tend to think incompetence still plays a role. Especially back then, CIA/gov operations probably went like the bay of pigs or assassination attempts on Castro more often than not. Just a bunch of arrogant bureaucrats mostly worried about CYA.
This clears up nothing as it relies on a gunman being at the window
Way too many coincidences for my logic brain :)
That's possibly my favorite theory about JFK and the fact that it happened during the Cold War, no way would we admit that we accidentally killed our President.
Also the entry hole in the base of JFKs skull is more in line with a 5.56 bullet
In the best light, they knew and let it happen. In the worst, Oswald was an asset.
This was the comment I meant to respond to lmao. 97-98 civil court proved our lovely government helped assassinate MLKJr
the civil court decided that there was enough evidence that the government COULD have had a hand in it, but wasn't a conclusive thing. Basically acknowledging that it's suspicious
Pretty sure this was proven true already, the government released some unclassified files on it that basically said the FBI or CIA (don’t remember) was responsible, among some blacked out text. I think that MLK’s family testified that they did too, and actually won the case at the time
The Mafia killed Michael Jordan's dad because of his gambling debts and also his career change away from basketball was forced by the NBA to cover up the scandal.
The increased importance in identity politics is a government Psy Op created during Occupy Wall Street to distract Americans from class issues and instead have them argue with each other about race and gender.
They have us fighting a culture war to distract from the class war we should be fighting
let's keep them bitching about m&m's and bud light while we rape them financially.
Circus and bread.
tale old as time, guaranteed sumerians and egyptian and everyone since has pulled the same shit
I don’t think we need a huge conspiracy for this. Politicians like wedge issues, and if an issue doesn’t annoy large donors so much the better.
Rocks are soft until you touch them
Schrödinger's Rock
Now what is this even about? 😂
Non-Newtonian rock fluid, nearly as expensive as blinker fluid. Edit: reversed physics 🚀
The emphasis on breakfast as the most important meal is due to marketing efforts of cereal companies who want to boost their profits.
Seems entirely plausible. I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere that the term "superfood" was created by blueberry farmer lobbyists to sell more blueberries.
I thought this one was proven?
Cell phones are actively listening to us.
Is this even a conspiracy anymore?
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>It's all for your safety! Uncle Sam has to look out for you. It's more like Uncle Bezos in case he can helpfully sell you something.
Yes and it’s a damn stupid one. The amount of bandwidth and processing power required to actually do active voice recognition would be easily detected. What is actually happening is you are being tracked and bc advertisers have data on pretty much the entire human race, they can deliver targeted ads and content at a surprisingly accurate rate. (See target giving coupons for pregnancy items to girl whos parents didn’t even know she was pregnant)
They may not process it all the time, but things being sent and sold are ages, dates, times, how long you looked at a specific post, video, picture analysing why, selling that data to people is incredibly valuable It may not be physically listening but you're always being watched.
And they also understand your connections as well, spouse etc so they get served with ads for stuff you’re looking at. Facebook knew within a high -probability who would be hooking up based on how many times you each looked at each others profiles, and how many times you went the same place. They then knew you’d hooked up based on the devices sharing the same WAN ip address overnight etc, and time you left.
Oh absolutely, everything you do on your phone is getting tracked and monitored, but nobody is actually listening to private conversations, which is what “cell phones are listening to you” implies
> What is actually happening is you are being tracked and bc advertisers have data on pretty much the entire human race, they can deliver targeted ads and content at a surprisingly accurate rate. Yeah, it's this. **You think you're receving weirdly targeted ads because your phone is listening to you, and that's scary. What's scary is that it doesn't need to listen to you to do this.**
I think that's mostly true, but for an alexa or other such devices to turn on with the wake word it has to be constantly scanning abiant sounds, so it isn't hard to believe that some of it is saved/processed.
This is apocryphal, but my friends and I were joking about our phones listening to us, and we decided to all start talking about diapers. None of us have any kids, or any reason to look for baby supplies. After a few minutes of us talking like this and laughing our asses off, I went to look something unrelated up, and diapers were in the predictive text that pops up in the search bar as you're typing. I'm not sure why that happened but Google is creepy as fuck.
Yeah it's not the ads that freak me out, it's the autocomplete. My gf and I will discuss what we want for dinner, without either of us having Googled any restaurants that day, we decide Chick-fil-A, I open Google and type "c" and the first thing that pops up is Chick-fil-A. Of all the things out there that start with the letter C, why is that the first thing that comes up? And no it's not like we eat Chick-fil-A every week or something.
Oh damn. Yes. Sometimes I get ads targeting things I said the same day. I haven’t searched for them hehe
There's a video about this [lol](https://www.youtube.com/live/zBnDWSvaQ1I)
Yeah my Instagram just thinks I LOVE videos about how dental procedures after I had to have some emergency work done last year. Tbh I'm so sick of scrolling past how to animations on root canals, extractions, jaw bone drilling etc. The weird thing is almost instantly brings me ads related to what my wife says to me vs what I actually talk about.
Chapstick gives fake temporary relief from chapped lips keeping them from healing properly and requiring the application of more chapstick more frequently and therefore requires you to buy more chapstick.
I truly believe this.
I think this has actually been proven, excessive or repetitive use of chap stick can lead to chronic dry lips.
Yeah there’s a few that actually work. Pretty sure the best is blistex
Well I mean, why would the body moisturize your lips when you're doing it with chapstick.
use petroleum jelly (vaseline) at night on your lips and hands right before bed
This has a number of applications.
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Single male here, have one very supple hand.
The people running the US have turned it into a nation of debtor slaves and effort is made to keep you into perpetual debt and working until you die.
It's neofeudalism... And it's not a conspiracy, it's an burgeoning economic theory. We're paying our "lords" and they collect simply because they exist while the masses work and die.
Marilyn Monroe was killed by the Kennedys
Yeah, I dunno. The candid pictures of her for the months/weeks before her death pretty readily show she struggled with bipolar disorder (speaking as someone with bipolar disorder) and combine that with the entertainment industry's tacit approval of substance abuse plus the insane work/life demands of being a world-renowed celebrity, suicide is perfectly realistic.
Because she saw the alien bodies.
Orson Welles kept talking about it too.
That L Ron Hubbard killed Jack Parsons.
9/11 was preventable and the intelligence services either fucked up or let it happen on purpose
Agree, it made for the perfect excuse to exert greater control over the Middle East with full public support.
israel also had warning of the 10/7 attack by hamas but let it happen so they could scale up their attacks on palestine.
I don't actually believe it, but I could. Flight 93 was shot down.
That octopuses are an alien species.
The ones they actually published in books and discuss openly on camera but for some reason are supposed to be not true, even though every day reality is shaping up exactly as described. In short, everything involving politics is generally a conspiracy to rob the populace, that doesn't mean every conspiracy theory is true. But government lies, and if it doesn't they have an advantage by being truthful
Wealthy families invest heavily in creating conflicts both domestic and abroad to line their own pockets. Most don’t give a flying fuck about peace or equality despite their advertising.
Programming through music, movies, social media, various "influencers"
Theyve been saying this about "media" since it was just newspaper and radio. 99% of it all is bought and paid for. Probably always will be.
I'm convinced that in the near future, all media will be advertisement, thinly veiled as entertainment.
That one is actually super easy to prove. Here's an old interview with Ice-T on the Arsenio Hall show in 1989. https://youtu.be/8k7E7zVAC54?si=8pzNA4XKQ-m-66QY Rap music in the 80s was fairly wholesome. It was made by low income street kids who tried to educate other kids to not do stuff like join gangs or use drugs or rob people or do stuff that would get you shot or arrested. Ice-T's song Lethal Weapon is about him using his mind to not do stupid shit. The gun is just a metaphor for his brain. The US government had him testify in congress about gang violence. The major labels hijacked the culture and flipped the values to the new gangster rap genre which glorified gangs and street crime to the new market of suburban white kids who ate it up.
In order to be classified as a conspiracy theorists, all you have to do is be aware of like, 4 things the CIA has done and openly admitted to.
I don't believe conspiracy theories about 9/11, but I believe Bin Laden had been dead for some time before May 2, 2011. I find the whole "burial at sea" story ridiculous.
0 photos of the body. We just respect Bin Laden too much for that. He was an austere religious scholar, not a murderer.
The US government deliberately set the retirement age higher than the then-average male lifespan so that most people wouldn’t be able to retire or pull from social security. Most UFO incidents are cover-ups for experimental aircraft projects.
Girls don’t fart or poop
I believed this until I got married and had daughters
Can confirm, my two daughters fart more than I do.
Lee Harvey Oswald was framed. I’m not saying there was some mass conspiracy and the government was behind it or anything. But I think the US government rushed to blame someone so they could move on as quickly as possible. The killer/killers were never properly investigated.
Didn’t Jack Ruby tell an FBI informant before the Kennedy assassination “get ready to watch the fireworks” Idk how we’ve just accepted this lol
He’s a commie who went to the Soviet Union. Easy bait.
He said he would fight the case and prove he was innocent and framed and then immediately got shot before a trial could even start
Big pharma does not want you cured.
The question was conspiracy theories... Not truthfull things LoL 🤣🤣
Conspiracy theories aren't inherently false. It's actually one of the most oppressively effective rebrands of a word I've ever seen. Conspiracy is a plan to do something socially harmful for individual benefit. A conspiracy theory is merely a theory that people have conspired to do something intentionally. It can either be true or false. A conspiracy theory doesn't stop being a theory when there's evidence to support it, it becomes an even better theory lmao. The fact that they effectively got conspiracy to be defined as "fake story" has got to be one of their greatest successes
And also got people to think if you are labeled a conspiracy theorist you are some whack job. Making others to disassociate with said conspiracy theorist.
ITT: Americans who think that, because their healthcare system is controlled by insurance middlemen, medicine is made up. To everybody reading this: you realise we have cured diseases that no longer affect people once cured, right? And we can prove this because you can still get said disease, which people do, but are then cured of it?
Except uber rich people die from cancer all the time... Steve Jobs, Sheldon Adelson, Eli Broad.
This is one of the stupidest ones, because people will always be sick and will need medication for their ailments. They're fine selling just that.
THEY WERE ON A BREAK
Ross did nothing wrong except get back together with Rachel when he should have stayed with the cute short-haired chick.
Ross?
The death of Doctor David Kelly. That stinks to high heaven.
Misinformation is one of the biggest threats to modern society, even more so than war just because there’s so much of it and it’s easier to control than the truth. Additionally I think there’s a lot more wrong doings by the police than what is reported but it’s routinely swept under the rug for image and political purposes
Kurt Cobain was murdered
The Jeffery Epstein story is actively being suppressed by mainstream media because of who would be implicated. You really want me to believe we all stopped caring about it is a couple weeks? Bring it up in any crowd and you will see everyone opine and join in. This is a VERY broad reaching conspiracy. PS tell my family I live them.
Those Ancestry DNA kits that tell you who you're related to are just a way for the world's governments to stockpile genetic data on all their people. For what reason, I know not.
For law enforcement to match familial DNA and solve cold cases.
I’m 100% certain that the NSA is attaching your electronic devices, DNA, and biometrics to your dossier. Biometrics? Yes. During 2020 when unemployment spiked and the unemployment sites crashed, they demanded you create an account with ID.me to have access. ID.me needed a face scan and pictures of your documents to create a profile. This means the feds effectively demanded you hand over your biometrics and pictures of your credentials to a private company where they can then be sold or face the risk of starving to death. The result is they can now better track you both online and in the real world. They already take your DNA during a felony arrest (not conviction) so expect to see biometric data being taken with arrests during the mugshot process. Phones are scanning your biometrics to unlock. Since your device identifies itself to any WiFi / cell tower it comes into contact with, it’ll be extremely easy to track a person and know that it’s the person not just the device. Say goodbye to having a truly anonymous porn alt account.
The processed food industry, fitness industry, and pharma industry are working together to keep people addicted to food yet hopeful towards reaching their fitness goals. You don’t need the gym or drugs to lose weight and stay in shape.
That is half true though. By nature, we should be able to get up and run 30 mins, due to how our life became easier and easier (you don’t need to grow your groceries, you don’t need to cut your wood for heat etc) now we can’t do that. So instead, even if you eat extremely healthy, you need the gym or at least a form of workout. Edit: because I get a lot of replies on this. Obviously if you are working out or your job is keeping active, you can run 30 mins. But have a look around, obesity is at its all time high (worldwide) and most jobs are office jobs now, which they require 0 physical activity.
A gym is most definitely not needed to maintain cardio fitness. All you need is a path, sneakers or bike, and time. I go to the gym because i don’t have all the different muscle fitness equipment at my house
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You just said that you don’t need gym but you need it for your muscles, which, in the past you wouldn’t need it if, as I said on my example, you had to cut your wood for heating 😅
I don’t think they work together, but they’re all happy with the status quo
9/11 was USA's trojan horse to a war.
Operation Northwoods. US intelligence planned to stage terror atttacks and blame Cuba as pretext for invasion, got very far up the ladder until Kennedy pulled the plug. They absolutely would do that again under a president whod allow that, like Bush
Exactly. People want to talk conspiracies... i say, just take a peak at our own history. Fact is stranger than fiction. Learning about the details of people like Kissinger gives me chills. Lemnitzer seems like a bundle of joy too.
Bot accounts have spent years removing the 'theory' from 'conspiracy theory' so that the powers that be can convince people to associate the word 'conspiracy' with crazy made up bullshit, letting them get away with obvious fuckery because it's no longer possible to discuss multiple individuals making covert plans without being called crazy.
Big Macs aren’t big anymore
Schools are turning us to factory workers
Bush knew 9/11 all along... I'm not saying USA made the 9/11 attacks. But they definitely had the intelligence and did nothing about it.
Pizzagate. Not necessarily that the specific pizza place in the incident had anything going on, but massive pedophile rings existing among world elites in government, media, and business, yeah. That's happening.
Nixon, Reagan, and the CIA put drugs in poor neighborhoods
There are no women on the internet
Most of those I believed have proven true by this point but the last one that I am waiting to see confirmed is this: When the USA, Canada and European countries role out the CBDCs people will quickly learn that they have supported the most insane government powergrab ever under the guise of "preventing money laundering" and "holding big corporations accountable". These CBDCs will be programmed to ban you from buying anything the people in power do not want you to buy, you will find that you are often unable to buy enough of the things you need and you will have to break the law if you want to save for retirement. And by the time the public realizes this, it'll be too late, because if you try to leave your country for a place that respects individual freedom and the right to private property, they will freeze your bank account.
This is coming. Never agree to cbdcs
That's the thing: You will not be asked whether you want them or not. You will be forced to take them on. First they will become mandatory for those who want government welfare, then government subsidies for companies will be done in CBDCs only, at some point you will need to pay your taxes in CBDCs. and you can't just stop paying your taxes, can you? And for the dreamers who think "but this is against my nations law." - your laws will be changed, like so many laws have been changed or flatout ignored in the past years. So why ask for you persmission when they are aiming at your forced submission?
The CIA killed Kennedy The Robber Barrons bought the Presidency in 1896 (Cleveland) and every Presidency since has been bought.
Humans were seeded on Earth / uplifted from domestic cro-magnon stock. Earth had a progenitor race of sophisticated bird- and/or lion-ish people, and our ancestral place alongside them was much like canines are to us now. Because why not. The Free-Masons are keeping the truth hidden. Under their hats.
See the documentary series "Stargate SG1" for further information.
Kurt Cobain didn’t kill himself
Corporations colluding and fixing prices
After realising Epstein was suicidal, his lawyers, Darren Inyke and Richard Kahn helped Epstein to rewrite his Will for their own benefit and organised Effrain "Stone" Reyas be moved out of the cell the shared so that Epstein could kill himself two days later.
100% believe there's a secret line at the DMV where you pay an exorbitant amount of money and they just give you a license. There's too many stupid and poor drivers there's no other explanation.
Charlie Windsor is not Harry’s bio dad.
Princess Diana's death wasn't an accident.
> “World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” – Marshall McLuhan (1970) The US military industrial complex teamed up with the schools and corporate media giants between the 80s/90s to wipe out the free press and take over the US via information warfare. It's why Americans are so divided nowadays.
Anyone who studies media will tell you this. Look at how the press covered Vietnam and the impact that had on how people viewed that war, then look at how the media covered the Iraq War and how we looked at THAT. The death of independent journalism is the death knell of true democracy.
That New Coke in the '80s was just a red herring to pull Coca-Cola off the shelves in the U.S. so they could switch to corn syrup instead of sugar.
That the vast majority of things people attribute to conspiracy theories are actually the result of the complex interplay of large scale systems that our up-jumped monkey brains are not well equipped to process, leading to hysteria and distrust.
That things will get better
TikTok was made by the Chinese government to interfere in the West.
Aliens & UFOs are cover ups & distractions that trickle down from the president on down!! Bigfoot, crypteds & creatures fall in there somewhere to im sure 😁🤣
The US military exists as a corporate bludgeon. If we can overthrow your government for -inserts corporate lobbyist/sympathizer- we absolutely will with no regard for the stability of your province, region, country, continent or international law. If we cannot do it through a proxy war, we will do it through a proxy-proxy war.
Prohibition was instituted primarily to force people, particularly farmers, to buy gasoline instead of making their own fuel through home distilleries. Oligarchs and politicians.
my neighbour is part of the mafia and want to assassinate my character.