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It's never that I think they aren't evil enough, I just don't trust conspiracies that require too much competency. I think most of them are too dumb and uncoordinated to pull off most of the conspiracies I hear about.
Especially the ones where you would need the complicity and cooperation of thousands of people to pull it off.
If you’ve ever tried to coordinate more than 50 people to do a thing, you quickly realize why people refer to management and leadership jobs as “herding cats.”
If someone gave me the option of faking the moon landing or going to the moon, I’d gladly strap a submarine to a missile.
It be fucking impossible to coordinate hundreds of people on the world’s biggest secret, then make them and their families abide by media training for half a century.
It be fucking impossible to coordinate hundreds of people on the world’s biggest secret, then make them and their families abide by media training for half a century.
Yes you can. The Manhattan Project was the blueprint for this.
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Yeah, especially the COVID conspiracies are mostly brain dead stuff
The whole world pretty much stopped, which helps absolutely no one, but somehow those guys think, that a dark force is trying to kill the economy for...profit?
Also all the scientists and doctors are together in bed and just want people to stay indoors, because... I have absolutely no clue
It just didn't make sense from the start.
Although I do get scepticism against new vaccine methods, but when someone tries to "explain" to me, that mRNA somehow overwrites my DNA and I should drink bleach instead...I usually don't even know where to start to correct them
especially the COVID conspiracies
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Lab leak initially labelled as a conspiracy theory.
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Darpa proposal to perform GoF research on coronaviruses.
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Airborne transmission actually true.
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Vaccine doesn't stop transmission
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Natural Immunity providing superior protection (no science supporting vaccine mandates for recovered patients).
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Event 201 plan followed to the letter.
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Government sponsored censoring of social media
The only one you sourced doesn't say anything about what you claim. I'm not denying that there are some questions here that need answering but most of this is just bullshit.
Half of those are not even conspiracies, nor even controversial.
"A pharmacist saw several black particles in one vial of the vaccine"
I included that source because people usually deny it happened. All of the others are also true, but I'm not going to spend hours feeding the sealions. As a gesture of good faith I'll provide a source for one more of your choosing.
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Yeah. Conspiracies feed a need to believe that there's some easy reason why things are fucked. In reality... things are fucked for a great many reasons, and 'evil people in power' is middle of the pack, at best.
The most believable conspiracies are the ones where it's full of incompetence. Like ZunZuneo
They would kill you and everything you love if it meant they’d get more money. Never forget that.
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Lol the cooperations
Flashmobs?
Down with Co-ops?
People still don't believe their tax dollars are being spent to hurt them after being shown these documents.
Every fucking time.
It's easy to recognise some super convenient propaganda, or follow the money, but sometimes it's not that simple.
MK Ultra moment
And you're a fool if you think they ever stopped.
If 1 in 20 conspiracy theories are correct then you'll be 95% correct if you disbelieve all of them.
If you pick one to believe in you'll be about 90% correct on average.
If you pick 10 you'll be about 50% correct.
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