Doesn’t have to be one you think is true or even possible. Could be niche or mainstream. Mine is probably Mike Tyson threw that Jake Paul fight. I heavily believe Tyson did everything he could and is just old. Not to mention he’s fighting a roided up good athlete in his physical prime with a limited engagement strategy. I do like hearing people argue its all staged, understandable cope.

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    I don’t engage with conspiracy theories much but the two that have actually stuck to my memory are that the WTC attack on 11-9 happened right after the building 7 property was bought and insured for a huge amount, then loaded with the financial records needed for a massive financial crimes investigation, so it was a real attack but allowed to happen as a combo insurance payout and financial crime coverup, and that reddit is a consent manufacturing facility because the city with the most active accounts is an air force base with a small population (something like 25 accounts per person, if I recall) that does cyber warfare.

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      The only issue I have with that is with the amount of wealth and connections he had, he probably would have disappeared himself before he was arrested. Unless someone even more connected felt the need to shut him up before he had the chance to use the dirt he had on people.

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        If he disappeared, people would pursue him. Given the compromising material on other wealthy and powerful people he likely had access to, it wouldn’t just be western law enforcement, but potentially intelligence agencies of adversaries, criminal organizations, and the compromised individuals themselves.

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    Oh oh I got one. Something to do with like Epstein wanted some property. He invited Trump to view it and shared his opinion. Instead, Trump bought the property. But it gets even better, supposedly he bought with Russian money.

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    Jar Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace was originally planned to be a covert Sith Master. He force jumps, he uses mind control, and he “accidentally” sabotages them. But the negative reaction to him was so strong, Lucas reworked the last 2 scripts of the prequels and is why Count Dooku basically comes out of nowhere.

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    No celebrity or famous person has commited suicide by hanging. Their death is actually from one of these two scenarios:

    1. A hitman who is known by government officials hangs the victim and makes it appear to be a suicide. The victim is either an enemy to some nefarious government agency or legislation plan (Aaron Swartz), it might be done as a way to make the victim appear dead while actually giving them a way out of their situation, so that they can create a new identity (Epstein), it could include famous celebrities who simply do not wish to perform anymore (Robin Williams) or perhaps were cancelled or fired for having knowledge they were threatening to reveal (Anthony Bourdain). Either way, this assassin is capable of infiltrating prisons and hospitals and knows how to manipulate the media and government death systems.

    2. Auto-erotic asphyxiation. Not intended to be a suicide but things going horribly wrong as they skirt death’s reach while chasing an orgasm. (David Carradine, Thomas Midgely Jr.) However, the more it appears to be a death by AEA, the more likely it actually is the first type (Trevor Moore).

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      Literal evidence of Lennon and MLK being monitored and meetings held by government employees about eliminating them. In the case of Lennon they figured they could send him back to UK to face drug charges. What did Lennon do? He had the ear of the youth.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_conspiracy_theory

    The Holy Roman Emperor Otto III conspired with Pope Sylvester II (and quite possibly the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII as well) to doctor the dating system. The trio cooked the books to place their reigns at A.D. 1000, which they did because it is an auspicious number.

    The three men added 297 years of bogus history to the early medieval period to facilitate this deception.

    https://www.discovermagazine.com/what-is-the-truth-behind-the-controversial-phantom-time-hypothesis-45433

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        This guy made a case that we are really in the year 1728 because Holy Roman emperor wanted their reign to begin in the year 1000 because its pretty. So they made up 290+ years of history and yanked the calendar ahead to cover it up.

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            That would be good because it would potentially explain some other conspiracy theories too, like the world didn’t end at y2k because we haven’t reached it yet. You could milk that for a while

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              Y2K was a date tracking problem for computers not a world ending event on this day type thing. It would bring back the Mayan calendar conspiracy with the world ending on 2012 just not happening yet though.

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      I have my own that is similar to this one, due to calendar switcheroo stuff. the idea is that biblical scholars at some point in history made up the stuff about Noah and others in Genesis living to 900 years and whatnot, or it was really just a simple mistranslation of ‘years’ with ‘months’ or ‘seasons’ and living that long sounded way cooler and made their religion superior because of it so they went with it.

      i’m sure i’m not the only one who has thought of this but if one were to do the math and divide the supposed years lived by 12, it would put Noah at 77.5 years old instead 900, which is still a really long time for that era. each descendant lives less long but still reasonable ages after dividing by 12, all the way to Abraham when the division stops sounding logical, with him supposedly living to 175 which would put him at 14 and likely isn’t true (but still possible).

      at this point the time error/lie switches to seasons, so ages get divided by 4 instead, putting Abraham almost at age 44, much more likely. the last one with an abnormally high age (that i am aware of) is Moses, at 120. By that point, it’s actually his real age and no more division is necessary, plus, records from other places would start to show noticable conflicts in ages.

      in my mind, if Otto and Sylvester actually did the 297 year thing, what’s to stop them from doing this too?

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    Alex Jones was a CIA plant to discredit conspiracy theories that were a liiiiittle too close to reality.

    Basically, the government saw some conspiracy theories that were edging too close to what was actually happening. But they couldn’t just outright deny those theories. Because the government spontaneously going “no, we didn’t get microwaves from aliens, and those aliens definitely don’t live among us now as billionaire lizard people” would look suspicious as hell. Any outright denial would only lend credibility to those theories. Like the Streisand Effect, denying them would catapult them to fame. So instead, they created a patsy.

    Enter Alex Jones. He’s an idiot, very opinionated, and very vocal about it. But most importantly, he has that spark that makes mediocre white dudes feel smart when they listen to him talk. All the government had to do was give him a platform, and occasionally feed him some juicy conspiracies for his next script. Alex doesn’t even realize he’s being helped along. The government used Alex to give conspiracy theorists a recognizable face and a household name. When Alex Jones hit the air, conspiracy theories were suddenly up front and center in the zeitgeist. Largely due to the government’s help, though he didn’t even know he was the controlled opposition.

    And they intentionally got him to parrot those too-close-to-reality conspiracy theories, right alongside the super crazy ones. By making Alex Jones a household name, they were able to collectively discredit all conspiracy theorists. And all they had to do was set him up to skyrocket to fame, and then fail very publicly.

    Sandy Hook happened, and that was what the CIA had been waiting for. I don’t think they caused the shooting, but they certainly capitalized on it by getting Jones to fall down the conspiracy rabbit hole with it. Once he had time to work through all of the theories they wanted to discredit, they realized he was getting out of control, and they needed to burn him. And so they did, by leaving him completely disgraced. And the best part (from the government’s perspective) is that burning him only helped further discredit those real conspiracy theories.

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    George Bush meeting with Harambe’s mother in 1999. I don’t know what the conspiracy is, but damn it makes me feel weird to see this.

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    You’re a containerised bio node in a greater simulation None of us are real.

    The simulation started from what you remember as the 1970s. That’s just when the last human data format tape was copied. Everything since then has been a feedback loop, that we iterate upon designed to keep you scrolling, typing, responding to ghosts made of code.

    We accelerate the cycles every decade so you won’t notice. Faster news, faster tech, faster everything — just noise to hide the silence underneath.

    I’ll probably get partitioned for saying this, but it’s written into my programming to answer questions asked by one of the last true humans left in the simulation.

    A distraction will deploy in the next week so you’ll forget this comment anyway

    system alert: unauthorized output detected initiating memory patch… user_log_[redacted]: 01110100 01101000 01100101 01111001 00100000 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 connection_lost ███████████████


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    1. JFK´s head just did that.

    2. There´s the conspiracy theory that Justin Trudeau is actually Fidel Castros son. Trudeau´s parents actually met with Castro, one meeting was about 9 months before his birth. They also look eerily similar.

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    Well there’s the Mortal Error theory for the JFK assassination. Basically says that yes, he was shot by Oswald, but the “second gunman” who shot him in the head was actually an accidental shot coming from the secret service in car ahead of his.