What is your favourite conspiracy theory?

[julieca]

I love the crazy conspiracy theories. So my favourite ones are that birds arent real and that Paul McCartney is dead and the man we see now is a lookalike.
What about you?

[Catsmere]

@PyongyangKipperbang

Either way, it aint all that. As my then 6 yr old said in the Louvre.."is that it?!"

I felt the same way when I saw it years ago. Left me very unimpressed. Glad it wasn't the aim of my visit ... the portraits I went to see did not disappoint!

[kenmac]

Truest conspiracy theory----raising the bank interest rate will reduce inflation!

[StowOnTheWold]

The Strawman Theory aka Sovereign Citizens Movement

This is just batshit crazy.

Broadly it goes that at birth every natural person has two identities - their 'flesh and blood' identity and their legal identity which is expressed precisely on our birth certificates. The movement started out in Canada but has since spread to the US and the UK. At birth our respective governments deposit large sums in a secret bank account with our name on it. The money is ours and the state leverages it to go about its day to day function.

But if we are successfully able to claim our account, by getting our governments to separate our flesh and legal identities, it can be used instead to buy our houses, pay all our bills including our taxes. We can also split our two personalities so that we do not need to attend courts of law. Essentially our account containing potentially millions is a trust account that we can draw on if we know how to claim it correctly. Claiming is a 'secret process'. From Wikipedia;

The theory holds that an individual has two personas. One of them is a physical, tangible human being, and the other is the legal person, often referred to as a legal fiction. When a baby is born in the U.S., a birth certificate is issued, and the parents apply for a Social Security Number. Sovereigns say the government uses that birth certificate to set up a secret US Treasury account which it funds with an amount ranging from $600,000 to $20 million, depending on the particular sovereign belief system. Hence, every newborn's rights are split between those held by the flesh-and-blood baby and the corporate shell account.[1] 

The promoters of this scheme cite wording in the Magna Carta and 2,000 year old Roman Law as evidence that our 'flesh and blood' personal trust accounts have always existed. It is how many countries function. Governments wish to keep this knowledge secret or they will lose funding and power if we claim our accounts. For this reason only a handful of 'gurus' know how to unlock the millions of ££ that are held for each of us. Of course they charge a fee for doing it.

I know of a couple who have spent about £45,000 with a guru who has advised them they have about £3m each in a UK government account, but it will take time to release it because higher powers in government need to approve the release of funds. They were told Brexit caused part of the delay.

The Movement also says English & Wales law is not the only laws we have to follow in the UK. There is a citizens law, a natural law that will always find in your favour so long as you genuinely believe in your case. Apparently, our judges will set aside our existing laws and apply this citizens law always in our favour if we can convince them we have rumbled how the strawman theory works.

[PyongyangKipperbang]

@Ddot

Mona lisa has been stolen before and cut from frame, it is now much smaller. It needs to be protected so fake one on show. Shame really

Either way, it aint all that. As my then 6 yr old said in the Louvre.."is that it?!"

[Catsmere]

@julieca

@Soyouthought

Flat earth. It’s so logical but illogical at the same time. Rabbit hole

I work with someone who embarrassingly believes that. I thought she was joking and laughed when she said she thought that. She has since emailed me links to videos that apparently "prove" the earth really is flat.

This meme is the perfect answer to flat earthers:

[CounsellorTroi]

JFK. There is so much there when you look into it. Currently listening to a great podcast called JFK The Enduring Secret.

[thescab]

Marking this up to come back to

[nicetoseetgesunsout]

Same @julieca
My ex really really tried to get me to believe it

[AliceA2021]

The lizard people control us.

The covid vax contains a chip or poison so that millions of people are now dropping dead. Died suddenly is a big conspiracy at the moment. Total rubbish but there you go.

Obviously, we are all asleep and sheeple and not awake like the clever ones that do their own 'research ' 🙄

[GrandTheftWalrus]

Great thread

[Laughingravy]

@Rupertgrintismyguiltypleasure

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, I just don’t buy that a jet disappears into thin air, especially in this day and age with all the technology at our disposal....

There was a fascinating discussion at the time with philosopher Alain De Botton. He thought a great deal of the anxiety about the missing airliner was down to our collective incomprehension that in this modern world a whole aircraft could go missing like that. In fact they can and one did. Away from the accepted flight routes there is no radar, no surveillance. The Indian ocean is mind bogglingly vast and little of it is monitored because there is nothing there. Only if you flew near the island of Diego Garcia, which is a US airbase would you attract attention. At the point the various systems, that normally tell the world where a civilian aircraft is using GPS and satellites, stopped transmitting flight 370 disappeared from sight. We only have a good idea of where it finally came to grief because an onboard satellite communication system automatically logged on to that system and responded to hourly status requests. It also acknowledged two ground-to-aircraft telephone calls were received but went unanswered.

[Rupertgrintismyguiltypleasure]

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, I just don’t buy that a jet disappears into thin air, especially in this day and age with all the technology at our disposal....

[Fodappadeee]

That mumsnet is actually ran by dads desperate to understand the complex minds of women.

[bottleofbeer]

To say that all CTs are a load of shit is to say the powers that be always tell the truth. Of course some are ridiculous, but some won't be.

[Ddot]

🤢

[Laughingravy]

@Ddot

A nurse reported him but was told to shut up

Two friends gave evidence at the Saville enquiry. One was very junior at the BBC and the other a nurse in Leeds. The BBC was and still is a rumour mill and there were lots of suspicions amongst the junior ranks about Saville but one that never went away was how several promising young people simply vanished from the industry having worked on Saville projects - jumped or pushed no one seemed to know.

In the case of the nurse she reported his request for 'relief' for doing a portering job for her and was told she was nothing special and Jimmy said it to all the young nurses.... As well as getting handsy with them as he pleased.

[Risefromthedream]

@Jacesmum1977 * The world is going through a massive depopulation program.

What they’ve put into you is dna altering and immune altering, people will get ill and not be able to fight it.*

@Twinstudy conspiracy theory is just as valid as yours! Why no shock and horror at all the vaccinated people getting ill?

[Ddot]

Ahhh

[Itsalmostanaccessory]

@Ddot

Mona lisa has been stolen before and cut from frame, it is now much smaller. It needs to be protected so fake one on show. Shame really

The Mona Lisa is painted on poplar wood. It ianr canvas. it's solid wood. It wasnt cut when it was stolen. It was simply lifted off the wall.

It has never been cut. The reserve around the edge has been trimmed to fit a frame, but none of the actual painting has been cut. It's always been the size it is.

This has been speculated about a lot. About 40 art experts actually examined it to find an answer and concluded that it was never cut.

[Ddot]

Mona lisa has been stolen before and cut from frame, it is now much smaller. It needs to be protected so fake one on show. Shame really

[JustJustWhy]

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

That's just weird, displaying a replica. Why are these paintings worth tens of millions of pounds anyway, if somebody can create a replica that looks just as nice/indistinguishably different in a museum?!

I suppose they clearly label it as a 'replica - original being maintained' or whatever? If not, that does seem a touch deceitful: if I wanted to see a photo of the Mona Lisa, I could just see it online - no need for me to travel all that way to its actual home, just to see a mock-up.

And that's part of why I don't "get" art. If it looks exactly the same, what's the difference?

[youdontnome]

So I kind of see something in this:
Governments keep locking down so that airlines and other businesses go bust, leaving the few airlines left to inflate their prices astronomically and therefore denying air travel to lower earners and also working towards green targets similar with restaurants, many will go bankrupt leaving the more expensive ones to cater to the well off whilst us at the bottom go without.

[Itsalmostanaccessory]

They dont always label it, no.

Mostly, if they are permanently displayed a replica (which museums do for a lot of statues and skeletons etc) then the description will read that it is a replica. But for short term switched due to maintenance or security concerns, they wont always put up a sign. This isnt a secret. Lots of art critics and museum writers etc have written about the use (and sometimes over use) of replicas.

[WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll]

That's just weird, displaying a replica. Why are these paintings worth tens of millions of pounds anyway, if somebody can create a replica that looks just as nice/indistinguishably different in a museum?!

I suppose they clearly label it as a 'replica - original being maintained' or whatever? If not, that does seem a touch deceitful: if I wanted to see a photo of the Mona Lisa, I could just see it online - no need for me to travel all that way to its actual home, just to see a mock-up.

[Itsalmostanaccessory]

@dropitlikeitsloth

Just heard one… the Mona Lisa and other famous paintings shown in museums are copies, the real ones are held in vaults.

This isnt exactly a conspiracy theory. Its sort if just fact.

Museums and galleries have replicas of their important artwork made. That's a fact. It is discussed quite a lot. They do it so they can display the replica if the original needs any maintenance done, or if there are security concerns.
Sometimes they dont have replicas and they just put up a sign saying the piece is currently being maintained. But they do use replicas and they do display them without putting up a notice to tell you it is a replica.

Some museums permanently display replicas because the original is just too delicate to put on display. They sometimes tell you it is a replica. They sometimes dont.