Conspiracy Theories You Find Kind Of...Funny?
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Yeah some of them are pretty funny, like how most relating to 9/11 require anything from physics defying technology to a shadow organisation the likes of which the human race has never seen in terms of sheer size and influence.
Why does it have to always be the boring, mundane ones like the NSA spying on all of us that turn out to be true? Why can't the West get interesting ones like that cult in South Korea that controlled the President like a puppet?
Why does it have to always be the boring, mundane ones like the NSA spying on all of us that turn out to be true? Why can't the West get interesting ones like that cult in South Korea that controlled the President like a puppet?
How about that one where the Muslim brotherhood secretly controls and orchestrates everything all Muslims everywhere do and uses this vast and impossible web of influence over everything from individual mosques and college Islamic societies all the way up to every single politician or member of the federal government with a remotely Muslim or Arab background to wage "cultural Jihad" in an attempt to institute Sharia law in the USA, all motivated by an exclusively Shia religious doctrine despite the Muslim brotherhood being a Sunni organisation.
You know.. the one which, funny as it is, would be much much funnier if the group which came up with it wasn't a key policy influence on the current US government and didn't host events with speakers from across the Republican party, including the current president. Hoo boy! My sides are splitting.
Serious response to the OP though: ▲▲▲▲The Illuminati▲▲▲▲
Because the Illuminati actually existed. They were a short lived pro-enlightenment club in Bavaria which were shut down for spreading radical ideas like secularism and social contract theory. The fact that Americans, the people whose actual country was (supposedly) founded on the principles the illuminati espoused, have spent more than two hundred years shitting their pants over them is always something I found delightfully strange.
You know.. the one which, funny as it is, would be much much funnier if the group which came up with it wasn't a key policy influence on the current US government and didn't host events with speakers from across the Republican party, including the current president. Hoo boy! My sides are splitting.
Serious response to the OP though: ▲▲▲▲The Illuminati▲▲▲▲
Because the Illuminati actually existed. They were a short lived pro-enlightenment club in Bavaria which were shut down for spreading radical ideas like secularism and social contract theory. The fact that Americans, the people whose actual country was (supposedly) founded on the principles the illuminati espoused, have spent more than two hundred years shitting their pants over them is always something I found delightfully strange.
Pretty much all anti-vaxxer theories because they are so ridiculous. Vaccines saved my life innumerable times for two years straight when i was a child, but apparently that makes me a government-controlled cyborg with autism. To those who actually believe in these theories: It's your funeral, literally
*Goes back to terminating threats to the establishment 100110111101*
*Goes back to terminating threats to the establishment 100110111101*
Area 51 and Roswell. Do you not think that if the US government had captured advanced alien flight technology, they'd have the F-35 working by now?
Also - hundreds of people on a base, no way you could get them all to keep quiet. But mainly the F-35 thing.
Also - hundreds of people on a base, no way you could get them all to keep quiet. But mainly the F-35 thing.
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I like the one about the shape-shifting lizards from another dimension secretly controlling the world. If you're going to go for a conspiracy theory, you may as well go all in. Flat Earth theory is fun to defend too.
Flat earth hell, I'l raise you Concave Earth: where Earth is a hollow sphere that we live in the inside of. Who needs gravity when you have centrifugal force!
All of them, actually.
Unless they inspire dangerous behavior in people, like the ones that caused some idiot to shoot up a pizza place.
Unless they inspire dangerous behavior in people, like the ones that caused some idiot to shoot up a pizza place.
Honestly? I don't find any of them funny. I find them disturbing - symptoms of a society that is increasingly disconnected from reality and utterly unable to separate fact from fiction. Maybe I'm being alarmist (I sure hope I am), but... I don't know. There's now a conspiracy theorist in the White House, and one of the major possible impacts of his delusion could be a massive reduction in mankind's efforts to counter global warming.
The pants shittingly stupid behind the serious flat Earthers.
The overwhelming majority of those who call themselves flat Earthers on the internet are shitposting trolls, but there are some true believers out there. If there were more true believers out there than I think there is, it would be terrifying. But as it is, it's just hilarious.
The overwhelming majority of those who call themselves flat Earthers on the internet are shitposting trolls, but there are some true believers out there. If there were more true believers out there than I think there is, it would be terrifying. But as it is, it's just hilarious.
In the 80's/90's (I can't remember) there was an arcade machine called Polybius that was involved into mind-controlling experiments, with men in black suits handling them.
The probable explanation is that the machine was giving the kids seizures, so they took them away and got rid of them to not be sued because of the sick kids.
The probable explanation is that the machine was giving the kids seizures, so they took them away and got rid of them to not be sued because of the sick kids.
Any of the ones that don't actually harm individuals I tend to find inherently entertaining. Particularly when the alleged conspiracy in question serves no obvious purpose and would require multiple generations of thousands or millions of conspirators taking their secrets to their graves. Flat Earthers, for example.
The Hollow Earth conspiracy theories are by far my favourite. They're so amazingly fantastical, especially when you throw in the idea that Nazis fled there and are plotting to take over our world some day.
Also lizard-people. It's so precious.
Also lizard-people. It's so precious.
As someone on the spectrum this one just makes me sad instead of laugh. And considering this leads to anti-vaxxers which in turn leads to situations like this... [https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/5na3ry/please_please_please_god_vaccinate_your_kids/] Yeah it ain't a funny one.Dr. McD said:
Flat earthers seem like a relatively harmless bunch. Never met one in person though. Maybe they are not.
The other one that countries are actually much closer together than we're told, but planes fly around in circles before landing, to extract more profit. Not sure if that's real or where I heard it now.