Should there be any restrictions on certain types of people allowed to use the Internet?
Earlier today, someone made a dubious "study" that you can be vaccinated when someone else sheds their mRNA on their skin, like how your cat's shedding causes you to grow fur.
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Sadly that one's been around for a while.
And depressingly a lot of people just parroted it the second they heard it...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6HsiixFS8
Sprinkler Rainbow Conspiracy
I always have to think of this one when thinking of conspiracies.
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trump won...
nanites in the vaccine
birth control pills leaching into the water has made men less masculine and frogs gay
chem trails...
sphere mongers telling me the world is round
the birds aren't real guy has a good ted talk
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I liked the one where vaccines made you magnetic, and then she tried to prove it, and it fell off.
The frogs gay thing actually has some merit. What actually happened was artificial hormones made frogs stop breeding. They didn't start flying flags or wearing assless chaps, but they did become the functional equivalent of gay.
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Contact with cat feces can infect humans with a brain parasite that basically turns them into psychopaths.
Oh wait... That one is oversimplyfied but kinda true ๐
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Not psychopaths, cat lovers! There is a theory that being infected by toxoplasma makes you obsessed with cats. As a cat lover myself I find this theory very fancy, would love if there were more research about this, to prove or disprove it.
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Not psychopaths, cat lovers!
Potayto potahto ๐ I mean why would anybody in full possession of their mental faculties choose to be roommates with a cat when such majestic, adorable creatures like dogs exist.
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Obviously I'm just kidding and I have to admit there are several quite big deductive leaps in my "Toxoplasmosis --> psychopath summary" ๐
If I remember correctly the article I read said the study found that Toxoplasmosis is overproportionally found among CEOs and deducted that might be the case because the parasite makes the host more likely to take risks. Furthermore I think it also claimed that people with Toxoplasmosis are less prone to altruistic behaviour.
Now a different study found that CEOs (and [among other professions] people in law enforcement) are far more likely to have psychopathic tendencies than the average person.
That's where my Toxopasmosis --> psychopath summary came from ๐
Obviously that might just as well be coincidence, not correlation.
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That's not a proper conspiracy.
Everyone knows that Steam is really a front for the ESRB.
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I mean, to hear the prophet of free games Sweeney Timm, Valve is the antichrist and Steam is its monopolistic vehicle. He even has fanatical converts like Wolfire martyring themselves in court over the Steam Monopoly deep state.
Sorry, can't help it. The total nothingburger of Epic's fake battle is too much fun to poke at.
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Lately with NATO trainings and jets flying around the "chemtrail" conspiracy has resurfaced. I am seeing more and more people ranting how government wants to poison us all, reduce birth, make us sick with a new covid variant so they can pump us full with vaccines which sterilize us and commit genocide against us.
Granted - it is not one conspiracy anymore. Those nutjobs are becoming more sophisticated, they now intertwine 2-3 conspiracies to sound even dumber. Which I never thought would be possible. And whenever you check their profile on facebook (where they do the most ranting obviously) you can see that the person has rarely finished grade school, are unemployed and pretty much look like they are inbred or have been hit in the head repeatedly for 10 years. I literally have no idea how some people can be so obtuse
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The U.S. still gets a daily dose of MAGA psychosis. It's tough to choose just one.
In general though, the conspiracy that makes me laugh the most is the Flat Earth one. All Orcas know the Earth ain't flat.
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Best part is when they fly around the world to meet other Flat-earthers ๐คช
https://abcnews.go.com/US/inside-flat-earth-international-conference-believes-earth-round/story?id=52580041
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The theory that cats carry a parasite in it that spreads to humans and makes us care for them and take more risks in general.
The same parasite that infects rats and mice, making that cats can catch them easier.
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Oh wait, that isn't a theory, that's just a fact haha.
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American planes are flying over Europe and spraying us with Covid virus. I heard that in 2020 from a guy who was fixing something in my house. He was completely serious.
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As usual the biggest one is the Covid giving ppl Autism one. Btw Reddit moderation is so funny :)
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No no, Covid was created by the government as an excuse to vaccinate people, the vaccines are what makes people Autistic!
And if you already are Autistic it... Idk, upgrades your Autism? I'm still waiting for my superpowers to show up...
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I had a fun conversation with my aunt in one of the peak covid waves regarding vaccinations (don't remember the numbers, but something around this):
me- Doesn't look good, just last night about 100 people died in hospitals
her- Yeah, those vaccines are killing people and everyone vaccinated is dropping like flies
me- But you know that 95% of those who died were not vaccinated?
her- Yeah, those vaccinated are dying left and right, government wants to kill us
Like full on ignoring whatever is said and just continuing straight forward with her narrative. And in line with this I remember everyone spamming comments and discussions with "anyone vaccinated will die in a year" ...... Since I vaccinated some 2 years have passed I think. Perfectly fine and standing. IF only those people had enough brain power to actually look back and realize what they said. But I think they would just say "of course everyone died, government is just hiding it, you were a lucky one to survive"....
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I'm sorry you died last year, rest in piece!
Wait, am I also dead? Is this the afterlife? Damn, it sucks as much as living...
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I got told by a merchandiser (I work in retail), that the Covid vaccine was causing elderly woman to begin having their periods again.
The thing that baffles me the most is why they feel the need to share this stuff
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I quite like that one that says Finland doesnt exist.
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There's also one that says Australia is nonexistent,and that everyone claiming to be australian is either a paid actor or is actually from New Zealand.
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but thats true how many people could name 5 famous Australians,
Besides Australia is just a suburb of Auckland these days, or New Zealands imaginatively named West Island
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steamgifts is fake, no one ever wins and it's all one big scam by cg in cahoots with gabe so that we all keep buying steam keys instead of epic keys.
some losers even think if you click on this link you have a shot at winning skully...
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Cry and seep all you want, but I am a master in winning!
Your start at a giveaway can't match my sheer numbers, thanks to my generosity!
Nice giveaway; I already have this game though.
;)
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everyone knows you're just one of cg's alters with fake winning stats so that we think winning is possible. You don't fool me cg!
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One of my senile relatives genuinely asked me if the 2023 Syria-Turkey earthquake has been artificially created by USA :|
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The only time I've ever met a conspiracy theorist IRL it was a moon landing denier. His proof was that the earth looks smaller then the moon on photos taken from the moon, even though when you look at the moon from the earth the moon is clearly smaller.
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My Ex-Wifes father told me that... Well, we had some discussions of that!...!
Well that is 60/40, I believe that, it is a bit hard to understand, comparing to computer levels at that time??
60% I belive USA Landed on moon.
40% I believe its a fake. ??
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A guy at work told me that most of the forest fires this year are caused by laser attacks from satelites. For testing or to help the real estate market to get rid of poor districts in cities. Yeah ... seems to be a quite big expensive project ... very believable. (<-sarcasm)
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Australia doesn't exist, every Australian is an actor and every photo/video is mistification
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The Moon is hollow and in fact a spacecraft of an ancient alien civilization.
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I've definitely seen movies/animes with this exact premise before.
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There's one theory claiming the Moon was once part of Earth and came into existence in a cataclysmic collision of Earth with another proto-planet. Ergo Moon and Earth should have the same material density which isn't the case. Solution: this is because there's a large cavity inside the Moon.
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I think they're all pretty dumb and that's kind of the point, right? Making dumb people feel like they are smarter because they know something other people don't?
Can we even discuss this without being banned now? It's not about games and it might offend SG's conspiracy theorists
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The Blue Label Project, by Dr. Johnny Walker. Which is a parody of a conspiracy called Blue Beam Project, that consists of people believing that our world overlords, will use satellites to 3D project a fake alien invasion on earth.
https://www.tiktok.com/@metawitch/video/7278338370101693738
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Modern governments exist to protect people and serve the will of the people.
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Replace "people" with "rich well connected people" and it becomes true.
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The other day in youtube I got suggested a short of someone debunking what I assume was a tiktok video of someone else claiming that dinosaurs weren't real because finding dinosaur bones was a rare occurrence, despite the fact that the vast majority of bones don't get fossilized and even then anecdotes of people just randomly coming across dinosaur fossils when digging isn't all that rare because dinosaurs existed for in incredibly large numbers for an (relative to human history) incredibly long time.
The thing that always baffles me about conspiracy theories is that people really think that some shadowy organization would be capable of pulling off and maintaining a cover up operation of such magnitude when most governments throughout history have struggled to do their jobs and almost every single notable fuck-up has bubbled to the surface over time, there's literally no such thing as a secret if more than two people are aware of it.
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the end in near
Fun fact: I created a SG Group for Latin Americans when the Steam restriction first come, and its was call "el fin esta cerca!", (the end is near!, in spanish) just checked, and I created this one on Sep 2016..... maybe It was not "that near", but Steam Restriction for us are worst nowadays than in that time.
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Have you heard your aunt saying that CIA heat rays made you vaccinate?
Did an obscure influencer claim that school letter grades are a capitalist-racist plot?
Did you argue with your brother over the which chess piece does the Earth most resemble?
Share you big-brain theories you've encountered here!
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