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?
If you’re looking for the most believable conspiracy theories out there, I’d say the one that says Jeffrey Epstein was murdered and it was covered up as a suicide is way up there.
See, it’s still a conspiracy if he committed suicide. I don’t see why people are obsessed with him being murdered, or makes no difference in the end because the chain of events leading to either outcome is pretty much the same. IMO the suicide is more lurid because all the things had to happen to give him the time, tools, and someone basically telling him to do it or someone would indeed kill him. The man knew he was fucked, and there’s zero distance between him being told and others just setting it up knowing he was suicidal anyway.
Point being - there absolutely was a conspiracy to give him opportunity, tools, and lack of monitoring so he could kill himself. The pursuit of anything to do with his associations or activities was dropped so fast it approached relativistic speeds as it vanished into the distance.
So, actually our federal prison system might just be that trash. Like super over crowded and super under funded. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a conspiracy to let him do it, but you can’t actually say there was with absolute certainty.
That’s pretty certain. On the other hand, the real conspiracy theory is that Epstein is alive and the body was a double
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Even the security cam situation is an obvious smoking gun
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.
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.
Blame Trump for that, the moment he announced his candidacy his rancid following began flooding all conspiracy forums with their rancid cheese.
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.
In that sense then yes.
One was MKUltra where the US government experimented on mind control, which then gave us the Unabomber.
Operation Midnight Climax was an MK-Ultra project in which government-employed prostitutes lured unsuspecting men to CIA “safe houses” where drug experiments took place.
The CIA dosed the men with LSD and then—while at times drinking cocktails behind a two-way mirror—watched the drug’s effects on the men’s behavior. Recording devices were installed in the prostitutes’ rooms, disguised as electrical outlets.
Holy Fuck!
The US government did some crazy shit. And that’s what we know about, I can’t even imagine what we don’t.
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.
There is only one conspiracy theory that I believe in.
It concerns the submarine incident in Hårsfjärden here in Sweden.
During the cold war, a foreign submarine was detected inside a military protection area in Hårsfjärden in Sweden.
This was assumed by the media and government to be a Soviet sub, but after watching a documentary about the incident I disagree.
The sub was never caught, officially it escaped, but I believe it was let go.
Ok, so a foreign sub was detected inside a military protection area near a Swedish naval base, this much is true, the navy closed the entrences and exits to the area with mines and nets, they dropped depth charges over the suspected sub, but the sub refused to surface.
This is what a documentary I have watched explain as facts pointing away from a Soviet submarine, and towards a NATO submarine.
During the incident, several audio recordings were made by hydrophones, the Swedish military claims that they recorded the sounds of a Soviet sub, but independent experts are less sure.
On one of the recordings a signal is intercepted, the Swedish military have claimed that the signal came from one of the sonars used to listen for the sub that malfunctioned, but the fault is increadibly unlikely to happen, and a retired officer incharge of training the sonar operators at the time is on record saying that the fault would be impossible to happen during normal operation.
The signal also shows another fact, it carried a subsignal from the electrical system onboard the submarine, and from that subsignal, it is possible to determine that the frequency of the electrical system used by the transmitting entity was not used by Soviet submarines.
Then we have the paint, during the depth charge attacks a yellow/green color spot was spotted on the surface, this was at the time one of the standard distress signals of NATO submarine, this spot was promptly lost and never investigated.
Then we have the weird orders given to a manned sea mine station at one of the exits of the area, standard practise was that the station was given direct permission to blow the mines if they had a verified target, this order was given every night, but one evening the station was reminded by their commander that could not blow the mines unless given permission.
Well, the permission didn’t arrive at the normal time, so when they heard a submarine passing their line of mines that night they could do nothing, hours after the sub passed they got permission, as they did the next day as well.
The Swedish millitary’s surpreme commander’s diary are missing the pages for this date.
There was also wittness statements taken and a drawing produced by wittnesses who saw a submarine in the area just before the incident, the drawing they made has the profile of a West German submarine. This is obviously unreliable, but still interesting.
So, what do I think?
That a foreign sub was inside the military protection area is documented, and not disputed, however I don’t believe it was a Soviet submarine, I believe it was a NATO submarine.
Why would NATO want to do this?
NATO felt at the time that Sweden did not have the capabillity to prevent Soviet submarines from entering our waters, the year before in 1981, a Soviet submarine ran aground deep inside Swedish waters just outside one of the largest Naval bases in Sweden. I believe that NATO wanted to scare the Swedish people to create a political will to strengthen the Swedish naval defence.
I like this conspiracy theory, it has zero impact on life and politics today, and it feels kinda fun to keep it alive.
Now, in the end I must admit a big weakness of this theory…
Where are the crew of the submarine, and why have they not spoken about this?
It has been 40+ years since the incident, it seems remarkable for there to have been zero people from the crew leaking some details about the incident, especially with the internet…
I can see three explanations for this:
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There never was a submarine in Hårsfjärden, it was all hysteria, the recordings made are from Swedish naval ships that have been misstakenly identified, the signal likwse.
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The sub was a Soviet sub, in my experience Russia has often been isolated due to the language barrier, so finding the crew could be impossible, this means that they might not even realize that people are talking about that specific mission at all, and if there have been leaks it is possible that they went unnoticed by the western world.
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The sub was a NATO sub, the crew was orderd not to talk about it, and later forgot about it, this seems unlikely as I doubt being depth charged is something you would forget, still even being ordered to silence I doubt that would stop any leaks over 4 decades, it might be that there are leaks but they never got any attention.
I don’t have the answer, and I am not going to pretend I do, I believe that it was a NATO submarine, but if you have more info, please post it, I’d be happy to be wrong if I can verify the facts.
Here are a few links to articles about the subject, the YT video is the Swedish documentary I am basing this comment on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hårsfjärden_incident
It was farting red herrings.
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That a member of the Secret Service accidentally shot President Kennedy. Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed JFK - Wiki article on 1992 book putting forward the idea
I read that book cover to cover when it came out (still have my copy somewhere), and I must say that the author makes a pretty compelling case.
The main theory is that someone (maybe Oswald, maybe someone else) was shooting from the book depository, but they only got off two shots. The 3rd shot was from the rifle of a Secret Service agent in the convertible directly behind Kennedy, which went off accidentally as he turned to return fire to the book depository.
The author shows how the bullet that blew off the top of Kennedy’s head was a soft metal jacket like the Secret Service used, while the first two shots were hard metal jackets, which was what was found in the depository. (He goes into great detail on the ballistics.) Because of the shape and acoustics of Dealy Plaza, a gunshot coming from the car behind Kennedy could sound like it came from the grassy knoll. Lastly, it would explain why people in the plaza claimed they smelled gunpowder, which wouldn’t be possible if the only shots came from the book depository.
The author posits that the two shots that got Kennedy from the book depository might have killed him anyway, but the 3rd and fatal headshot was an accident from the Secret Service agent who was sitting on the back of the convertible in front of Kennedy with his feet in the back seat. He stumbled as he tried to stand in the seat to turn and return fire to whoever was shooting from the book depository behind him, and the rifle accidentally discharged, thus the title of the book Mortal Error.
Wait—so the idea here is that it was an accidental discharge that just so happened to hit the same guy, in the same spot, that the assassin was already shooting at? And here I thought that Archduke Ferdinand was unlucky!
“It was a million to one shot, doc!”
Putin did 9/99 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombings
if you even want to call it a conspiracy theory, that is
This event is a sterling example of a false flag, the target, the response, all scream ‘Let’s strike fear into our own people’.
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Huh Edmond Halley, big claim.
The only thing I know Edmund Halley from is an audio drama I listen to. Is there a conspiracy surrounding this astronomer?
No it’s just he’s a very famous man. It’s like saying before Stephen Hawkins died he had a conspiracy theory.
Though really it would me more like Einstein saying quantum mechanics is wrong. It’s just a scientist making a hypothesis and then being wrong about it. But the fact it started by such a famous person is kinda cool.
Edmond Halley from the Magnus archives is much cooler. He was forcibly drowned in a pool of absolute darkness belonging to a cult he was apart of and absorbed an embodiment of nyctophobia which he used to swap bodies for centuries effectively achieving immortality until he could somehow find a way to darken the sun. Real Edmond Halley is still cool though
JFK’s assassination was planned with Johnson’s involvement because of Kennedy’s plans to withdraw from Vietnam. Johnson’s wife, Lady Bird, was a main stockholder of Bell helicopter and made millions off of defense contracts from the war.
I read one about the shot that killed him being accidentally fired by a secret service agent while reacting to the first shot.
If there’s a cover up, this is the one that makes the most sense to me. It aligns with Occam’s Razor; it’s simple and understandable why it would be hidden. Edit: posted with more detail elsewhere in the thread: https://lemmy.world/comment/7523091
I think this is also the moment that began the rise of cynicism and bipartisanship in the country that eventually gave is Reagan.
If what you say is true, then it should be considered a high crime against the United States.
But of course, we will never know the actual truth on this.
I guess it’s technically part of the larger “Q-Anon” stuff, but I particularly like the one that says liberals have an underground submarine base under Central Park in NYC where they go to drink baby blood.
Mk ultra turned out to be real
And most of the unabomber’s manifesto ended up being accurate as well…
Yeah accurate in the sense horoscopes are.
Tell me you didn’t read the Unabomber manifesto without telling me you didn’t read the Unabomber manifesto.
He NAILED social disconnectedness, with the caveat that he couldn’t imagine that the internet would make this 100x times worse in a span of 15 years.
I read his manifesto. Don’t call me a liar again.
Of course he “nailed” it. It is a Barnum statement. Literally any time in human history you can bring up social disconnect and it will apply to someone. Just read T.S. Eliot the man was whining about being lonely in London turn of last century. Humans are social animals so yeah there is always going to be someone who feels like they aren’t getting enough attention.
It wasn’t a ‘barnum’ statement and you’ve proven your intellectual dishonesty.
I hereby banish you from my internet forever, liar.
Yes pointing out that humans being lonely is really freaken profound.
Birds aren’t real.
Neither is Finland
Neither is Wyoming but they have 2 senators
Wyoming exists, but it has no population. The senators’ constituents are bison 🦬
I have been there multiple times. It is real and it has people in it.
Sorry I forgot the /s. The joke is in the context of population and percentages the total population as a percentage of the US hoovers a little under 0.20%.
That’s why the internet meme of some place doesn’t exist is because it rounds up to an statistical mistake.Oh! Very amusing
I fucking hate this one, you’re blocked.
I don’t have any good “real” ones that haven’t already been posted here, but you should check out The Illuminatus! Trilogy (https://a.co/d/6hqz5kX). It has elements of nearly all the popular conspiracy theories around at the time it was written, plus it makes up a few more, and then wraps them all up neatly with a bow.
Oh man that is such a fun series of books to read high, and is kind of a modern religious allegory.
“America is the land of opportunity.”
Edit: Maybe this just falls under “lies.”
Oh there’s a fucktonne of opportunity if you are already rich like 99% of all the ‘self made’ billionaires.
Even Bill Gates came from privilege.
This is by design.
I always hung around the burnouts in highschool my early 20s. So many people would always claim that school was pointless because bill gates was a drop out.
He dropped out of Harvard.
No one really remembered that part. So no, sorry Paul, you never had a chance at being a billionaire when you decided to drop out from our community college in philosophy class. It turns out being a dropout wasn’t what helped make the billions.
They have to maintain the illusion to keep us all from rioting.
Denver Airport
I’m hesitant about this one only because I find it hard to believe the rich and powerful would want to SHARE a bunker. Just doesn’t sit right with me
CoIntelPro.
Just, go look.
Well that’s hardly a theory, it’s proven fact at this point
Try telling that to the magahats
The octonauts are secretly the HYDRA youth recruitment division
