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Which conspiracy theories do you believe?

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RoseWylie · 11/11/2026 19:17

Me-

Covid came from a Chinese lab.
Epstein's death was engineered by a third party, whether by murder or by compromising the suicide watch.
Lucy Letby's conviction isn't sound and was affected by institutional motivation to find a cause for babies dying other than negligence and squalor across the department. (FAOD I have no idea whether she is innocent or guilty.)

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Someonewitha · 11/11/2026 20:06

Marycontrarygarden · 11/11/2026 20:05

Lol ..controlling what and why?

Oh please don’t indulge!!

ErmWhatNow · 11/11/2026 20:09

I believe there’s an agenda to keep people scared under the guise of “we care about your safety”. Scared people are easier to keep in line.

I believe some crop circles are created by a source we don’t understand. The debunking years ago doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

I believe there is an agenda from somewhere (perhaps Russia or China) to destabilise western countries by dividing them and creating the arguments and division we’re currently seeing a lot of.

Imaginary86 · 11/11/2026 20:10

Mk ultra and mind control

ErmWhatNow · 11/11/2026 20:10

Imaginary86 · 11/11/2026 20:10

Mk ultra and mind control

That was proven to be true wasn’t it?

Shmee1988 · 11/11/2026 20:11

Covid. Leaked on purpose from a lab with the very intention of creating all that transpired as a result.

GinaandGin · 11/11/2026 20:15

Periperi2025 · 11/11/2026 19:46

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/14/northernireland.comment

I have always had my suspicions around the chinook crash. 3 of my late dads colleagues/ friends were killed (he was part of the same project), I remember him coming home at diner time that night, simulatanously broken and angry as they all knew on day one that it was at best gross incompetence and a cover up of the known faults on the helicopter. Another colleague on his project died not long after (crashed his motorbike moving between meetings at different military bases) the project then got shut down.
It's either a conspiracy or a whole other level of stupidity from the british government/military!

Agree with this .. how it was managed and reported

LimoncelloSpritz · 11/11/2026 20:18

I think people these days fail to understand that there are reporting restrictions around ongoing police investigations and court cases and when immediate answers aren’t given cry “cover up” and “two tier policing”

Mumtobabyhavoc · 11/11/2026 20:35

Epstein:
Gov't agent, but unsure to what degree; possibly used by foreign gov'ts as well as the American.
That explains all the info he had on powerful/rich people which was held over them and why the full files are still being held; likely tonnes of info has been scrubbed.
Death was engineered.
Maxwell knows far more than what has been told, lied about Trump's involvement and bought herself a preferable prison for lying and keeping quiet about his involvement; has info about other powerful people; she has accepted being the fall guy and playing along to stay alive; had more involvement than she admitted.

EmeraldRoulette · 11/11/2026 20:35

ErmWhatNow · 11/11/2026 20:10

That was proven to be true wasn’t it?

Yes MK ultra really was about mind control. Another one that’s no longer a conspiracy theory.

BTW, what was the debunking with crop circles please?

muggart · 11/11/2026 20:40

RoseWylie · 11/11/2026 19:30

I suppose we'd have to define what is meant by " conspiracy theory " exactly.

Well yes, I suppose mine are more examples of questioning the official narrative than conspiracy theories proper.

that sounds like a good definition of conspiracy theory to me

EmeraldRoulette · 11/11/2026 20:44

muggart · 11/11/2026 20:40

that sounds like a good definition of conspiracy theory to me

Why? How are you defining official narrative? Because a lot of the people in MK Ultra weren’t told anything at all….

somanychristmaslights · 11/11/2026 20:46

I don’t believe a plane hit the Pentagon.

RoseWylie · 11/11/2026 21:29

muggart · 11/11/2026 20:40

that sounds like a good definition of conspiracy theory to me

You think any questioning of the official narrative is a conspiracy theory?

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muggart · 11/11/2026 21:52

RoseWylie · 11/11/2026 21:29

You think any questioning of the official narrative is a conspiracy theory?

Yes but I would think there needs to be a belief that there’s a cover up too.

eg. It wasnt a conspiracy when thalidomide was given to pregnant women because it incorrectly believed to be safe by authorities. But when suspicions were squashed and it was continued to be proscribed then anyone questioning it would have been a conspiracy theorist. At the point the FDA officially declared it unsafe then anyone who previously was considered a conspiracy theorist would no longer be one.

is this not how it works?

ErmWhatNow · 11/11/2026 21:57

EmeraldRoulette · 11/11/2026 20:35

Yes MK ultra really was about mind control. Another one that’s no longer a conspiracy theory.

BTW, what was the debunking with crop circles please?

2 framers in their 60s said it was them, with ropes and planks of wood, but could not recreate anything near the intricacies found in some crop circles.

There are other weird anomalies found that they had no idea about.

There’s a podcast called The Why Files that goes into it in detail, if you can get past the annoying fish sidekick it’s worth a listen.

Zanatdy · 11/11/2026 22:00

None, though not 100% convinced Lucy Letby is guilty as its all circumstantial and not what i’d consider ‘beyond all reasonable doubt’.

EmeraldRoulette · 11/11/2026 22:07

@ErmWhatNow that’s intriguing but quite confusing - given that there have been crop circles for centuries, why would two guys in their 60s be responsible? Unless they have had several incarnations over the years 😂

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 11/11/2026 22:09

The Queen (II) was a lizard.

I saw a lizard once on holiday, and although it was small it did appear to be wearing a crown, or something.

Funkyfoxy · 11/11/2026 22:12

Lots. Diana, Epstein, 9/11.. I think we have no idea how deep the hidden agendas go

Celer · 11/11/2026 22:16

I think there may be some evidence in existence that there is life on other planets. I hope we find out before I die.

RaggedRocks · 11/11/2026 22:17

Elvis didn't die when they say he did.

XDownwiththissortofthingX · 11/11/2026 22:20

There are only two conspiracies I believe, both of them JFK related.

When JFK made his pledge to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, this panicked NASA and the CIA into setting in motion a plan to fake the entire thing. They soon realised that the enormous expense and inability to keep the conspiracy quiet due to the scale meant it simply wasn't viable, so they developed a legitimate lunar programme instead because it was cheaper and easier to just put a man on the moon for real.

Also, Lee Harvey Oswald did not shoot JFK. By late 1963 JFK had been dealing with significant political headaches for nearly three years. The pressure and strain just overcame him and his head exploded. The government was so embarrassed at not having a viable medical explanation for this they concocted the "assassination" nonsense, framed Lee Harvey Oswald for the murder, and had him killed to shut him up.

People who think Diana was "murdered" via means of a carcrash are insane. She wasn't even dead to begin with, which is pretty much the most important aspect of having someone murdered. If they were going to kill her it would have been much more efficient to lace her underwear with highly radioactive isotopes or something.

allthemind · 11/11/2026 22:22

Covid definitely a lab leak. That whole zoonotic crossover bat/pangolin stuff was so much less likely than oh its just a coincidence a new virus started on a city that just happened to have a high level virology lab that was doing bioweapons research. I mean come on, how stupid do they think we are.

I cant people believe the recent 'power failures' at airports and 'bad data input' air traffic control incidents aren't sabre-ratyling cyber attacks.

DogAnxiety · 11/11/2026 22:27

I agree about the recent potential cyber attacks. I think there is huge amounts of foreign dodgy money going into destabilisation of NATO states. I think there is a LOT and I mean a lot of foreign money whipping up anti Muslim hatred at the moment. Not sure they qualify as conspiracies but not definitely proven.

trivi · 11/11/2026 22:31

I delved into the Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory and it freaked me out, lived by myself at the time and the house seemed eerie, I couldn’t sleep - they say she committed suicide before her album release so they covered her death up with a body double. ‘Evidence’ was way more plausible than I expected.