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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Flat earth and that us Aussie are paid actors.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

My pet conspiracy theory that California does not exist. It was invented by democrats to pad their electoral votes. Any one who has traveled there actually went to a staged area in Oregon. Anyone who claims to live there is either brainwashed or in on it. Maps, globes, etc. have all been altered. Satellites have special software that adds California to its images. Spacecraft windows are actually screens that digitally alter earth to add California.

Once you consider that California is allegedly the location of Hollywood and movies often create convincing, fake worlds, it makes sense. Hollywood was created to take advantage of the tech developed to fake California and continue funding the conspiracy...

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The one where the Nazis found an Antarctic hole into a hollow earth world with aliens/lizards inside it... And that's where they were getting their tech.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

One of my favourite historical ones was the John birch society saying Lyndon B. Johnson was a communist agent, who started the Vietnam war to help communists take over the USA.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I make a YT channel about bizarre conspiracy theories. I keep coming back to the people who make videos claiming that 5G is actually a deadly weapon on their 5G Iphone 16. Nobody has more cognitive dissonance than these guys.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The global wealthy elite being pedophiles conspiracy is unthinkably evil. It’s also unfortunately true. Epstein’s island proved it.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Donald Trump is really Andy Kaufman method acting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I'd actually be less mad, I think, if it turned out to be a Kaufman prank.

I'd still want him in prison though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I haven't been able to find this theory again because searching for it brings up the moon landing conspiracy, but some people think that there's a second, fake moon which is why the moon rises and sets twice a day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

which is why the moon rises and sets twice a day

It...but...that's...

Huh?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Lizard people wins the price, hands down.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The Mandela Effect is pretty wild, but it’s also the most explicitly mental-health issue adjacent of an already β€œare you sure you’re ok?” field.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Qantas used to have a 'u' in it, but they changed their name so now you don't even know!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

That's like asking who the craziest person is. Like, there's so many to choose from, and they get less and less well known as you go nuttier and nuttier.

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