Board 8 > Dumbest popular conspiracy theory

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KamikazePotato
10/31/20 6:08:12 PM
#102:


Maybe I should remake this poll without flat earth. I also included JFK simply because it was popular but the unanimous sentiment is that it shouldn't be here, so that should be replaced to. Not sure with what.

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PrivateBiscuit1
10/31/20 6:17:50 PM
#103:


KamikazePotato posted...
Maybe I should remake this poll without flat earth. I also included JFK simply because it was popular but the unanimous sentiment is that it shouldn't be here, so that should be replaced to. Not sure with what.
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red13n
10/31/20 6:20:12 PM
#104:


KamikazePotato posted...
Maybe I should remake this poll without flat earth. I also included JFK simply because it was popular but the unanimous sentiment is that it shouldn't be here, so that should be replaced to. Not sure with what.

Isn't this just part of QAnon now?

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Dark Young Link
10/31/20 6:42:29 PM
#105:


Jakyl25 posted...
DYL always calls it Corvid, for some reason.


*Looks up*

Oh damnit!

I swear I have some undiagnosed dyslexia or something. My mind is always switching letters around (Like "posion" and "poison" or "villian" and "villain") or adding an extra letter.

That or I've been subconsciously thinking about birds for some reason.

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xp1337
10/31/20 6:58:58 PM
#106:


red13n posted...
Isn't this just part of QAnon now?
JFK? I thought the QAnon flavor of the JFK conspiracy was less about JFK and more that JFK Jr. is still alive and secretly helping Trump to bring Hillary Clinton to justice. Also he was supposed to replace Pence as Trump's VP like a week ago but obviously that didn't happen.

Though I try not to delve too deep into that rabbit hole (and yet depressingly have still learned quite a bit just through osmosis) so if they have some take on the whole "grassy knoll" side of the conspiracy that has existed since the start idk.

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Nanis23
10/31/20 6:59:20 PM
#107:


Or you probably combined it with corona

Still pretty impressive to confuse the most used word in 2020

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Dark Young Link
10/31/20 7:14:56 PM
#108:


Nanis23 posted...
Or you probably combined it with corona

Another possibility.

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Jakyl25
10/31/20 7:15:55 PM
#109:


xp1337 posted...
I thought the QAnon flavor of the JFK conspiracy was less about JFK and more that JFK Jr. is still alive and secretly helping Trump to bring Hillary Clinton to justice. Also he was supposed to replace Pence as Trump's VP like a week ago but obviously that didn't happen.


Did you know he was SIGHTED on top of Mount Rushmore watching Trumps speech there a couple months ago from afar, according to Q people?

#WWG1WGA
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xp1337
10/31/20 7:17:47 PM
#110:


oh my god no i did not know that

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Corrik7
10/31/20 7:24:45 PM
#111:


Where is hitler and/or tupac is still alive? I mean, Kamala Harris is about to be President and thinks Tupac is alive.

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norenxaq
10/31/20 7:25:06 PM
#112:


ALL conspiracy theories lead back to the illuminati, including this one
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StealThisSheen
11/01/20 12:02:03 AM
#118:


Wanglicious posted...
well yeah because crazy stuff is great to read about. i mean by the split posted, 33% that mostly believe it probably do in pretty deep, the 23% that say partial is the group i mean.

if you're believing JFK shit, you sure as fuck ain't voting on partial truth.

Well, if you believe in the JFK shit, then I question your ability to correctly pick your level of belief in that poll to begin with!

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Wanglicious
11/01/20 12:11:56 AM
#113:


Nanis23 posted...
Just how common are QAnon?
Are people IRL really believe that or it's just 4chan bullshit?
Do you know anyone like that in person?

it's a bunch of boomer larpers.
i think the epstein situation is what really set the thing off to a much greater audience because it ended up changing the idea of who Q is and what he's doing. ultimately you can boil a lot of the Q stuff down to "distrust of government/those with power" with "belief that there's a notable subsection of people with dangerous, degenerate, evil hobbies." has gone from "an insider trying to dismantle the big state" to "satanic pedos." for that, Epstein definitely is the trigger because... well, he was pretty damn close to it. statue of pan, had a gene lab on a private island so he could spread his seed, giant sex trafficking ring with people high up all over the world and hollywood - you can pretty much zero in on him as the model. and there is some degree of truth to that, he's clearly not the only one.

reason it's pretty popular ends up being because the core two things are pretty obviously true: you shouldn't trust government/those with power and there are people in those positions who do have those hobbies. there's plenty of stuff that's proven those positions as real already and it's true that they do get together secretly - the entire bit of Bohemian Grove revolves around that, for an older conspiracy you've got the Illuminati, etc. similarly, insiders revealing major things about government/those with money and power have also happened, it's the basis of Wikileaks and Snowden is still in exile as a result.

but that's the part that got tweaked for conspiracy larping zone: at this point it means that anytime anything is revealed involving any person in these positions, Q did it. as a result, we've now got a clear loop.

"Q" makes vague statement -> somebody in government or with money/power (US, UK, Israel, Canada, any country is fine) is caught in a scandal involving children or weird cult shit -> "Q" outed them -> belief in Q grows -> look into other vague statements, repeat.

like you don't need a deeply ingrained government insider for the vast majority of scandals that occur, a couple whistleblowers can do the job just fine usually today. but the second it's all centered on one person, you get Q and it starts resembling a weird cult/larp. as the old phrase goes, any conspiracy worth its salt has a grain of truth to it and the grains in Q's are pretty big ones.

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Wanglicious
11/01/20 12:20:21 AM
#114:


KamikazePotato posted...
Maybe I should remake this poll without flat earth. I also included JFK simply because it was popular but the unanimous sentiment is that it shouldn't be here, so that should be replaced to. Not sure with what.

chemtrails is the classic one missing.
bigfoot is another notable one missing.

xp1337 posted...
JFK? I thought the QAnon flavor of the JFK conspiracy was less about JFK and more that JFK Jr. is still alive and secretly helping Trump to bring Hillary Clinton to justice. Also he was supposed to replace Pence as Trump's VP like a week ago but obviously that didn't happen.


Jakyl25 posted...
Did you know he was SIGHTED on top of Mount Rushmore watching Trumps speech there a couple months ago from afar, according to Q people?

#WWG1WGA

boomer larpers are by far the craziest part of it.
for what it's worth, pretty sure most people who say there's some truth tend to go towards the Epstein stuff or the distrust of government, not this part which evolved from one government insider to... well, basically a counter-illuminati.

though for that we can point to South Korea, where that actually had to happen as the country had their prime minister outed as being the puppet of a cult leader in 2016. still the best drama.

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NFUN
11/01/20 12:28:31 AM
#119:


MZero posted...
To me, flat earth and moon landing are the dumbest because even if they were conspiracies it wouldn't impact those people's lives in any way, unlike vaccines, 5G towers, etc.

Flat earth takes it though due to being the easiest to disprove (and it was disproved like hundreds of years ago)

Edit: also no one benefits from the Earth being round so it would be a pointless lie to keep up for centuries
thousands

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StealThisSheen
11/01/20 12:48:27 AM
#115:


Wanglicious posted...
for what it's worth, pretty sure most people who say there's some truth tend to go towards the Epstein stuff or the distrust of government, not this part which evolved from one government insider to... well, basically a counter-illuminati.

I'd be surprised if this were the case, since it's the crazier stuff that's highlighted all over social media where people are most running into it to begin with.

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MZero
11/01/20 12:56:54 AM
#116:


To me, flat earth and moon landing are the dumbest because even if they were conspiracies it wouldn't impact those people's lives in any way, unlike vaccines, 5G towers, etc.

Flat earth takes it though due to being the easiest to disprove (and it was disproved like hundreds of years ago)

Edit: also no one benefits from the Earth being round so it would be a pointless lie to keep up for centuries

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Wanglicious
11/01/20 12:57:19 AM
#117:


well yeah because crazy stuff is great to read about. i mean by the split posted, 33% that mostly believe it probably do in pretty deep, the 23% that say partial is the group i mean.

if you're believing JFK shit, you sure as fuck ain't voting on partial truth.

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lordjers
11/01/20 2:01:22 AM
#120:


The Lizard thing has lore going back to the origin of the universe; I wonder when we'll get a cinematic universe out of it.

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foolm0r0n
11/01/20 8:36:07 AM
#121:


Nanis23 posted...
I feel like you Americans have bigger problems than Trump winning
There's a ton of Qanon in Israel for sure, same with GG and other online movements. Be careful focusing so much on the US that you miss the growing problems at home.

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Waluigi1
11/01/20 10:34:51 AM
#122:


I refuse to believe anywhere close to 30% of Americans believe in Qanon. I'd have never heard of it if not for this board and I've still never seen it mentioned outside of this board either.

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Wanglicious
11/01/20 10:40:17 AM
#123:


for the hardcore believers who said mostly? Republicans are about 25%, Dems 31%, Independents 40%. so 33% of 25% and 5% of 31% would be that. roughly 10% total there. pretty plausible number.

edit:
dunno what independents would be. but if it's in the middle of that then you're looking at 15 which still ain't unreasonable.

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foolm0r0n
11/01/20 11:12:09 AM
#124:


Lots of republicans get into it through tucker carlson and such without really knowing where it originally came from

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LordoftheMorons
11/01/20 6:43:10 PM
#125:


I can't get over that a ton of people now believe in a conspiracy theory that started with a fucking 4chan troll

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banananor
11/04/20 10:42:11 PM
#126:


Kernels of Truth

9/11 was an inside job - government agencies had intel on it but weren't competent enough to act
Moon landing was faked - nasa released promotional material with photos of astronauts 'floating' in a studio
Earth is flat - ???
Aliens are in Area 51 - something's in area 51, and the government tests flying stuff and won't say what it is
Something something 5G towers - capitalist technology companies don't care about our health
Pizzagate - rich people are pedophiles, too, and epstein is real
Climate change is a hoax - ???
Vaccines are bad, don't take them - pharmaceutical companies are scumbags
COVID is a hoax, don't wear masks - people die every day and life goes on
JFK assassination was an inside job - lots of people wanted him dead, including the mob


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InsaneGamer137
11/04/20 10:54:43 PM
#127:


Earth is flat, I am a Christian and disagree with it.

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MawiIe
11/04/20 11:47:49 PM
#128:


Yeah I haven't heard much about 5g conspiracy theories , but with 5g data collection is going to get 100x more creepy and intrusive, and I'll be avoiding it for that reason.

from the sound of it, you guys are talking about something different tho

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xp1337
11/05/20 12:17:12 AM
#129:


The 5G stuff reached its peak early in the year when the infrastructure was going up in some places. I haven't seen it around the last few months but I also don't really frequent places where that kind of stuff is common so maybe it's still going strong in the darker corners of the net.

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Waluigi1
11/05/20 8:49:58 AM
#130:


MawiIe posted...
but with 5g data collection is going to get 100x more creepy and intrusive,
How so? Seems like it'll be the same just with more data.

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htaeD
11/05/20 9:02:00 AM
#131:


There's plenty of Qanons in my country too.
Famous people too, who like to act proud about how miserable they are making the lives of those 'damned pedo minsters' and practically wish violence upon them.
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ZeldaTPLink
11/05/20 9:10:00 AM
#132:


Chinese COVID vaccines have microchips that will reprogram your DNA to make you a communist.

Yeah, that's a thing.
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Wanglicious
11/05/20 9:15:46 AM
#133:


Waluigi1 posted...
How so? Seems like it'll be the same just with more data.

two fronts i'm aware of.
the first would be that due to the speeds it may be easier to hide and gather much more data.
more importantly however it's the makers of the infrastructure in the majority of winning bids: China. reason to believe they're trying to push for massive, global data collection.


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Waluigi1
11/05/20 12:13:10 PM
#134:


Was this a worry when we went from 3G to 4G?

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StartTheMachine
11/05/20 12:28:44 PM
#135:


How excited are you guys for "the 2020 election was rigged against Donald Trump" being the new most popular conspiracy theory, blowing all of these out the water?

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Leonhart4
11/05/20 12:29:12 PM
#136:


Waluigi1 posted...
Was this a worry when we went from 3G to 4G?

It's the 5th G that gets you

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SantaRPidgey
11/05/20 2:04:05 PM
#137:


Waluigi1 posted...
Was this a worry when we went from 3G to 4G?

it absolutely was, and then it absolutely happened.

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superdreamkilla
11/06/20 2:06:11 AM
#138:


InsaneGamer137 posted...
Earth is flat, I am a Christian and disagree with it.
Osama bin Laden did 9/11.
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Black_Hydras
11/06/20 8:09:43 AM
#139:


No one cheats in CS:GO

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