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Robusto
Mon 01:56
> In 1485, a Dominican friar and inquisitor called Heinrich Kramer embarked on a witch-hunting expedition in another Alpine region—the Austrian Tyrol. Kramer was a fervent convert to the new belief in a global satanic conspiracy.[70] He also seems to have been mentally unhinged, and his accusations of satanic witchcraft were colored by rabid misogyny and odd sexual fixations. Local church authorities, led by the bishop of Brixen, were skeptical of Kramer’s accusations and alarmed by his activities. They stopped his inquisition, released the suspects he arrested, and expelled him from the ar…
alphabet
Feb 11 06:09
@Laurel Good, so it is a conspiracy!
alphabet
Feb 5 02:44
Who better to run the government than a car salesman with conspiracy theories and a guy who writes for neo-Nazi publications?
tchrist
Feb 5 01:05
It's a proparoxytonic conspiracy.
alphabet
Jan 26 18:52
The alleged Iranian conspiracy to assassinate Trump probably won't help US-Iran relations much.
alphabet
Jan 19 04:46
@M.A.R. The "The Catholic Church controls the world" conspiracy theories are just...incredibly weird.
alphabet
Jan 19 04:37
> Conspiracy theorist Mitchell Haney Wilcoxon in 1928 alleged that the Jesuits were behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, as part of a broader conspiracy to squash American democracy. In more modern times, conspiracy theorists have claimed that Jesuits were behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
alphabet
Jan 19 04:21
Conspiracy theory of the day: The Jesuits sank the Titanic
HippoSawrUs
Dec 31, 2024 21:52
Pretending a virus is a conspiracy to keep Social Security solvent
alphabet
Dec 20, 2024 03:24
Larry Hogan Brutally Self-Owns Trying to Join Latest MAGA Conspiracy
GratefulDisciple
Dec 16, 2024 22:47
I'm mostly worried only in the social media's and AI tools' capability to propagate conspiracy theories and misinformation to less-discerning consumers, especially teenagers.
Mitch
Dec 12, 2024 16:12
@GratefulDisciple Conspiracy theorists are people with too much time on their hands and little scientific education (or if they do have the education, they're benefitting personally somehow from publicizing the conspiracy).
GratefulDisciple
Dec 12, 2024 16:09
@Mitch Sure. It's disheartening to see those conspiracy theorists spreading fear about mRNA vaccines.
Cerberus
Dec 9, 2024 09:27
On the one hand, he is kind of prone to conspiracy theories.
M.A.R.
Dec 9, 2024 09:15
Freaking nuts. Turned the self-pitying conspiracy theorist knob to the max.
M.A.R.
Dec 8, 2024 00:38
@alphabet I feel like indulging my inner conspiracy theorist here. That these rebels have backing from Bibi.
Mitch
Dec 5, 2024 19:43
It's kinda the same area as X-Files, but none of this horseshit skepticism/ya gotta believe crap...in Fringe -all- the (sciency) conspiracy theories are true, but they're only revealed to be so little by little.
Mitch
Nov 20, 2024 23:37
@GratefulDisciple Since my perception is reality, there is obviously some conspiracy going on to shift the calendar with hidden leap days.
Conrado
Nov 14, 2024 23:03
While the 1950s USA conspiracy theory talked (as well as I could understand what I read online) about a communist agenda to poison the unsuspecting Free American Public, my acquaintance here was of the opinion rather that the capitalists (pharmaceutical companies) were responsible for the studies focusing on dental health rather than (and at the cost of) all round general health.
GratefulDisciple
Nov 14, 2024 14:23
Not to mention how conspiracy theories have influenced so many Americans' view of reality. Gotta be a humanity-prepper of the coming "doom" of reality so much distorted by those theories and by the likes of ChatGPT.
Laurel
Nov 12, 2024 13:43
@alphabet It's at every level. There was a controversy (or should I say conspiracy theory, stoked by JK Rowling I believe) that the one Olympic boxer who made her opponent cry was a trans woman. She wasn't, of course, but people lost their shit.
M.A.R.
Nov 11, 2024 02:47
@Conrado it's one of the oldest conspiracy theories in the US
Cerberus
Nov 10, 2024 00:27
@jlliagre Oh, I don't think so, that would sound like a conspiracy.
jlliagre
Nov 10, 2024 00:26
@Cerberus Why hiding the truth? The government also have cameras inside the houses of everyone who doesn't believe in conspiracy theories just in case they change their mind.
Cerberus
Nov 9, 2024 23:05
@Conrado Yes, the government have cameras inside the houses of everyone who believes in conspiracy theories.
Conrado
Nov 9, 2024 23:04
Does the government keep close enough watch on conspiracy theorists?
Cerberus
Nov 6, 2024 01:15
That is no conspiracy theory.
CowperKettle
Nov 2, 2024 06:13
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954), also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, anti-vaccine activist, and conspiracy theorist. He is the chairman and founder of Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine advocacy group that is a leading proponent of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. He is on the ballot in some states as an independent candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election. A member of the Kennedy family, he is a son of the U.S. attorney general and senator Robert F. Kennedy, and a nephew of the U.S. president John F. Kennedy...
Mitch
Oct 23, 2024 16:04
Which means there -is- a conspiracy.
Mitch
Oct 23, 2024 16:04
@Conrado The conspiracy is that they're trying to get you to believe there is a conspiracy, when there's no conspiracy.
Conrado
Oct 23, 2024 15:55
4) Who's hiding the math? I smell a conspiracy.
Mitch
Aug 31, 2024 20:44
The -one- time the conspiracy theorists were right.
tchrist
Aug 31, 2024 17:57
> The Romans loved a conspiracy theory, and rumors of
women-led cover-ups pepper their history. This motif
took hold most robustly in the peculiar conditions of the
early Roman Empire, as the male aristocrats who’d once
ruled the Roman Republic became concerned that women were
co-opting power that was rightfully male. It was said that
after Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, died, his wife,
Livia, continued to issue positive news about his health
until she had secured the succession of her son Tiberius. A
alphabet
Aug 29, 2024 02:08
That government conspiracy to eliminate male aggression with endocrine disruptors can't come soon enough.
M.A.R.
Aug 28, 2024 18:14
@Mitch Oh people have all sorts of conspiracy theories in mind.
M.A.R.
Jul 18, 2024 03:44
It would have been a shrewd political move by a colonial power back then, but again conspiracy theories tend to be too insane for easy rebuttal.
tchrist
Jul 5, 2024 17:46
@Robusto I never saw the riots first hand there. Some of the rioters took the commuter train up to Lake Geneva and broke some of the storefront windows, so we knew not to go downtown while that unrest was afoot. Of course, that useful commuter train's tracks have long since been disassembled by the great automobile conspiracy perpetrated upon us by Big Oil.
alphabet
Jun 22, 2024 21:00
Dead Internet theory
The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation, minimising organic human activity to manipulate the population. Proponents of the theory believe these bots were created intentionally to help manipulate algorithms and boost search results in order to manipulate consumers. Some proponents of the theory accuse government agencies of using bots to manipulate public perception. The date given for this "death" is generally around 2016 or 2017. The dead Internet...
alphabet
May 15, 2024 15:15
He's the guy that made up the whole "lizard people/reptilian" conspiracy theory.
alphabet
Apr 27, 2024 18:26
(Before you accuse me of inventing a ridiculous conspiracy theory: that was a joke.)
Robusto
Apr 24, 2024 18:47
@alphabet Not to mention the Zionist conspiracy theorists.
alphabet
Apr 20, 2024 18:04
Last known photograph of raccoon cub who went missing in the Great Smoky Mountains. Conspiracy theorists blame Bigfoot.
M.A.R.
Apr 14, 2024 22:39
But I admit it's a bit conspiracy-minded
CowperKettle
Apr 14, 2024 07:46
Dead Internet theory
The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content manipulated by algorithmic curation, minimising organic human activity to manipulate the population. Proponents of the theory believe these bots were created intentionally to help manipulate algorithms and boost search results in order to manipulate consumers. Some proponents of the theory accuse government agencies of using bots to manipulate public perception. The date given for this "death" was generally around 2016 or 2017.The dead Internet...
M.A.R.
Feb 26, 2024 19:02
You can have crazy speeds and still timeout here. I have my own personal conspiracy theories about that.
Robusto
Feb 15, 2024 02:59
@tchrist: Remember we talked about the death of copy editing? Well, here's a sentence from The Atlantic: "If that’s the case, then the aisle pandamonium can’t be chalked up to passengers’ misbehavior or to honest confusion at the gate." (From The Carry-On-Baggage Bubble Is About to Pop).
alphabet
Jan 5, 2024 22:09
It does end with the line "No physical evidence for battle of Stalingrad," which apparently is some sort of bizarre conspiracy theory.
user 85795
Jan 5, 2024 02:42
Coincidental conspiracy theory 101
alphabet
Dec 29, 2023 21:54
Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist.
alphabet
Dec 23, 2023 17:15
I say fron[ʔ] door, apparently because of a conspiracy.

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