Are there any credible conspiracy theories?

You guys were claiming that the vaccines were killing millions of people, making millions more infertile, implanting everyone with secret nanotech and rewriting DNA to allow people to become cyborgs. And that this was all part of a global satanic plot that supernaturally predicted by magic.

You see conspiracies everywhere you can't explain, but you are unable to comprehend the issue could be you. Thinking like that involves Olympic levels of narcissism.

Communists didn't take over Ireland, the restrictions didn't remain permanent, a corpo-fascist one world government didn't take over, governments didn't start systematically destroying their economies to usher in some new dystopia, none of the garbage I saw written in here came true.

Sorry to be blunt but this is an amorphous blob of stupidity, it's unsurprising these types of people were against masks, vaccines and every other common sense measure in a pandemic. There's no normal objective criticism of government actions like the rest of us, nope, it's a herd of paranoid "sheep" who get hysterical over straightforward medical advice and get apoplectic over normal measures, gleaning their "information" from loon social media, going mental over a handful of vaccine injuries/deaths whilst not giving a toss about millions dying from a preventable infectious disease. All the time spreading pathological lies about the details, whilst gaslighting that "everyone else" is doing it, medical professionals everywhere, all of science, all of the media in the same giant conspiracy they can never explain or support.

I remember when the same types were in here going mental about Fukushima, FEMA "death camps", Swine Flu, etc, etc. It will never change, paranoid people unable or unwilling to process reality through anything but a paranoid prism.

What's interesting is that there's lots of conspiracies to actually discuss but they aren't "big" enough or happen to hurt their heroes (trump or putin usually) that they don't come up.

trump took lots of documents, he varied between saying he returned them, they were planted, to he declassified them, why did he take them in the first place, there must be something conspiratorial going on there (new_world_order for all their faults usually had "the plan" in place).

boris enriched tory supporters with PPE contracts using public money while thousands died.

putin is calling everyone in the world nazis and is shutting off energy and waging a "special operation".

3 big things happening yet no alternate reasons being put behind it (bar CQD and signature).

Even with the moon, there is lots of "slightly more credible" things that can be looked at. Did the Soviets lose any cosmonauts, did they get close to the moon themselves, is there any hidden activities that occurred on the moon.

Lots of fun things to discuss :)

What's special knowing something that everyone else is aware of?

Conspiracy theorists want to feel special, like they have "secret" information that others don't have. So they can go down the pub and bamboozle a stranger with 9/11 talking points and feel "smart". Hence all these absurd fantastical conspiracies on this forum and very few real ones.

OK here's conspiracy theory, although I guess it won't be news to many. I'm not saying I believe it, and I can't remember where I read it so apologies for not providing a source. It is, however, pretty specific.

1. Trump attended Epstein parties and Epstein was in the habit of secretly filmy his guests "in action" with very young guests.
2. After Eptsien's death, these tapes or at least the ones involving Trump went abroad, can't remember how, and ended up in Moscow.
3. At a summit, Trump and Putin meet alone with only an interpreter in the room with them. Now comes the most speculative bit...
4. Putin tells Trump he has the tapes, and what is required of him to keep them secret. A photo shows Putin exiting the room looking very happy with himself, while Trump looks quite deflated.
5. Trump then declares Putin to be his best buddy whom he trusts more than the CIA and FBI.
6. Trump takes secret documents with him when he leaves the White House, many of which have presumably since found their way to Moscow

Knowing the characters of the individuals involved I'd say it's pretty plausible, but of course that doesn't make it true.

I never even thought of the QAnon angle, but if fits with the Republicans' habit of every accusation being a tacit confession.

This conspiracy has all the usual people going crazy, of course not

https://www.yahoo.com/news/steve-bannon-turns-himself-build-134315046.html

Its related to one of their hero’s and so they won’t even acknowledge it.

"Are there any credible conspiracy theories?"

"Yes, obviously. Don't be a sheep."

"Can you point to some example?"

"Well the moon landings were fake and 9/11 was done with super secret silent explosives by super secret Nazis."

"ummm... ok. How about this story about a presidential advisor running an investment scam?"

<Deathly silence....>

Yeah but don't forget, it could have been done with very few people. 😁