What are the best conspiracy theories out there?

Wanderer@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 40 points –

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?

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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.

Well those are not really conspiracy theories if they are true and proven.

Mine is that a part of the US government knew 9/11 was going to happen and didn't try to stop it. It was too great of a casus belli to let it slip, the amount of money some people made because of it is astounding.

Well they were conspiracy theories long before they were proven to be true.

The best conspiracy theory is probably going to be the one about who killed JFK. It's so validated even the government entertains the thought all the time without really being official on anything.

In that sense then yes.

One was MKUltra where the US government experimented on mind control, which then gave us the Unabomber.

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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.

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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.

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