#Modern Conspiracy Theories

[advent-conspiacist]

Majestic 12 & The Secret Government (Part  II, William "Bill" Cooper Series)

Are you ready to uncover one of the biggest mysteries of contemporary history? We’re going to talk about Majestic 12, or MJ-12, which is supposedly a secret organization formed to keep people in the dark about extraterrestrial existence.—**The Roswell Incident: The Beginning**It was identified in 1947 as a weather balloon near Roswell, New Mexico, and then used in the most clandestine battles for…

[bitchapalooza]

Do you think modern au Buggy would be a fake conspiracy theorist just for the online views and attention and then eventually accidentally make a literal cult? Because God I do and it's hilarious...

[gingerswagfreckles]

I get your point about how the eugenics thing you mentioned isn’t just Christianity because Islam does it too but Islam came after Christianity and incorporated a lot of its elements so I’d still blame Christianity there.

@gerardwaygirlmoments I don't know how to further explain to you that the extremely complicated history of how social justice language is utilized to give legitimacy to eugenics and ethnic cleansing is a phenomenon that took hold in it's modern form in the aftermath of the Nazi regime during the rise of the Soviet Union, and how the co-opting of this philosophy by the Arab League in the 1950s is the result of extremely nuanced geopolitical situations during the mid 20th century. I don't know how else to explain that Islam developed in the 600s CE and absolutely did not adopt a social justice framework for justifying eugenics under the guise of anti imperialism from late antiquity Christianity. And therefore that the fact that Islam developed out of Christianity and Judaism is completely irrelevant to the discussion of why modern social justice organizations around the entire world are now using the concepts of anti imperialism and decolonization to justify ethnic cleansing and genocide against minority populations in their countries.

Entire books have been written on this subject by people much smarter than me. I could recommend one if you are interested. But if you aren't then please just stop and admit to yourself that sometimes you don't have a great understanding of extremely niche subjects like "how anti imperialism became the justification for ethnic cleansing and violence against civilian populations around the world in every corner of the globe in all kinds of cultures" and admit that you're probably not going to learn about it because it is boring and hard and we can't all have a great understanding of everything and the subject isn't that personally relevant to you. I promise that doing this is much better than trying to shoehorn every problem in the entire world into a social framework that you read about on tumblr. Cultural Christianity can be a useful concept to discuss some phenomenon but trying to blame the phrase "decolonization is always a violent phenomenon" on pre-Islamic Christians in the 500s in the Arabian desert is not what cultural Christianity is supposed to apply to.

[lunarrosette]

Folks have we considered Trudy is not a robot but instead some sort of eldritch horror her husband made or somehow brought about to have the “perfect wife”

[daenystheedreamer]

Some in universe conspiracy theories you think would exist?

targaryens are lizard people for sure and grand maester conspiracy (barbrey not trusting them like hello)

[uncanny-tranny]

Something I always wonder with the whole: "The lazy populous doesn't want to work!" is if it's only being said to keep minimum wage at the very, very lowest end of 'survivability.'

The "lazy worker" isn't truly a problem. The employers are.

[marshbevvie]

CONSPIRACY THEORIST BEV!

I recreated the meme. Feel free to use this as a reaction image whenever something goes wrong in Derry that probably has a conspiracy attached to it (I know my friends will use the HELL out of this).

[daz4i]

why are all the big conspiracy theories abt like. shadow governments secretly controlling the minds of everyone on earth. why do you keep thinking about a group controlling you. keep that to yourself. whore

[thewritingpossum]

obsessed with the idea of Roger Mortimer paying some extra cash to get particularly competent assassins so that Edward II's murder would be less suspicious only for the body to be too putrified to be recognizabe and therefore useful by the time it reached Gloucester

[tomorrowusa]

The latest far right fad is raw milk. Perhaps they regard Louis Pasteur as a woke socialist. Seriously, government health advisories about raw milk only make it more attractive to the conspiracy theory fringe.

Commentators on sites like Infowars, Gab and Rumble have grown increasingly vocal about raw milk in recent weeks. They see the government’s heightened concerns about the dangers as overreach. “They say: ‘Bird flu in milk! Bird flu in milk! Oh, it’s the scariest thing!’” Owen Shroyer said on the April 29 episode of his “War Room” podcast from Infowars. He added: “They’ll just make raw milk illegal. That’s what this is all about.” Public health officials have long warned Americans of the severe health risks that can come with drinking raw milk instead of pasteurized milk, which is heated to kill bacteria, viruses and other germs. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found more than 200 disease outbreaks linked to unpasteurized milk from 1998 to 2018, leading to 2,645 illnesses, 228 hospitalizations and three deaths.

The far right, including anti-vaxxers, seems to have an affinity for pathogens. Either that or they feel that pathogens don't really exist and perhaps were made up by Hillary Clinton and George Soros. Whatever they think, don't expect them to make sense.

Contrary to claims, there’s little or no evidence that drinking raw milk provides health benefits, including protection from certain infectious diseases, said Dr. Megin Nichols, the deputy director of the Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases at the C.D.C. The Food and Drug Administration says pasteurizing milk kills the virus. The F.D.A. said in a statement that there are no scientifically proven benefits to drinking raw milk and that “the health risks are clear.”

Epidemics get rightwingers agitated. The latest bird flu outbreak has them acting like mad cows.

Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at Media Matters, a left-leaning watchdog that looked at the trend this month, said raw milk promotion had been intensifying on the right since the start of the bird flu outbreak. “What you have is a bunch of right-wing influencers who know that they can build substantial audiences and retain their audiences and excite their audiences by telling them that what medical authorities are saying about raw milk, about bird flu, is not credible,” Mr. Gertz said.

Basically the wingnuts are telling people: Don't trust science, trust Infowars instead! Paranoia is good for clicks.

As for bird flu, there is clear evidence of it being easily transmissible between mammals.

After mice drink raw H5N1 milk, bird flu virus riddles their organs

Despite the delusions of the raw milk crowd, drinking unpasteurized milk brimming with infectious avian H5N1 influenza virus is a very bad idea, according to freshly squeezed data published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison squirted raw H5N1-containing milk from infected cows into the throats of anesthetized laboratory mice, finding that the virus caused systemic infections after the mice were observed swallowing the dose. The illnesses began quickly, with symptoms of lethargy and ruffled fur starting on day 1. [ ... ] Before the mouse data, numerous reports have noted carnivores falling ill with H5N1 after eating infected wild birds. And a study from March in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases reported that over half of the 24 or so cats on an H5N1-infected dairy farm in Texas died after drinking raw milk from the sick cows. Before their deaths, the cats displayed distressing neurological symptoms, and studies found the virus had invaded their lungs, brains, hearts, and eyes.

So we have bovines, rodents, and felines all being infected by H5N1. Several primates (i.e. humans) have also been infected. But generally, humans whose health practices are influenced by the germ theory of infection stand a darn good chance of avoiding it.

Fortunately, for the bulk of Americans who heed germ theory, pasteurization appears completely effective at deactivating the virus in milk, according to thorough testing by the FDA. Pasteurized milk is considered safe during the outbreak.

As with 17th century patriarchy and religious practices, the fringe right seems eager to return to the medical dark ages before germ theory and vaccination. In the century between 1870 and 1970 life expectancy almost doubled because of related discoveries. The far right seems to have some sort of death wish.

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[szczypinski-mateusz]

Waves whisperers, 2023

[razielim]

honerva, known madwoman, pulled a denethor thinking lotor was dead and all was despair when he really just needed the houses of healing and the hands of the king are the hands of a healer, and so shall the rightful king be known, which is how it's discovered that sendak was descended from a royal bloodline predating zarkon's reign, when he, the real sendak and not the clone haggar has been using, heals his friend and rival from the precipice. reconnecting to ancient galra roots the same way lotor has once desperately sought to connect to altean hearitage, they reestablish a galra kingdom in exile, separate from the fracturing remnants of the empire, hidden using much the same tricks that had once hidden the alteans for ten thousand years

[innerchorus]

Since it feels like ages since I've posted about Gurgin yet he is always in my thoughts, here's a specific thought that popped into my head at random while I was at work recently: modern day Wolfsnake AU Gurgin wearing his dead brother's clothes 🥲

[nuuxta]

Wait. So. I'm a history student, and right now, we're in modern history and talking about Christopher Columbus. Who wanted to go to India, by boat. How did he want to do that ?

Right. Travel around the Earth. Because Earth is round. And they knew that at the end of the XVth century.

Now. Explain to me, how the hell do people think the Earth is FLAT ??????

Like, If you believe that, I'm sorry dude, but you're dumber than an XVth century man (yes, many of them knew. I don't actually believe people thought the Earth was flat at that time. How did we end up thinking that again ? Like we knew it was round during Antiquity, through middle age -yeah, they didn't believe in heliocentrism, but the Earth was not flat- and now what ? I don't understand.)

[critical-skeptic]

The Blame Game

It’s laughable to pretend that cultural fragility emerged spontaneously from any given generational cohort when the historical record shows the entire human race has been hypersensitive and dangerously reactionary since it first learned to bang rocks together. The current climate—replete with so-called “woke” social justice zealots, quack-MAGA conspiracy drones, and every other variant of cognitively stunted ideologue—exists not because humanity suddenly became frail, but because an expanding global population and relentless hyper-connectivity have transformed what were once pitifully small, laughable fringes into colossal, self-perpetuating mobs. You have only yourselves to blame for letting technological conveniences and endless content streams embolden the previously voiceless hordes, and for refusing to accept accountability for your own intellectual deficits.

The convenient excuse that some era—take your pick, the South Park-watching ’90s kids or the Family Guy-obsessed early millennials—must have toughened people up is a flaccid, nostalgia-driven delusion. The reality is that everyone has always been a delicate flower when poked in the right spot. The only difference now is the speed and scale at which these hysterical meltdowns are broadcast, archived, weaponized, and looped into infinite cultural feedback. The result: Both left-wing and right-wing “snowflakes” spend their days lobbing digital Molotov cocktails at each other, making sure the inferno of stupidity never burns out.

And if you’re determined to pin this on specific birth cohorts, then let’s not mince words: all generations share the blame. Generation Z and Generation A? A legion of perpetually offended infants who mistake hashtag activism for real achievement. Millennials? Overly sensitive edgelords and spoiled brats, produced by Gen Xers who were too busy sulking in their own post-boomer bitterness to teach resilience, and enabled by the indulgent older generations who pretended that showering them with worthless praise and passing them smartphones would somehow offset the Boomer-made crises scalding the planet. Boomers themselves, still clinging to life thanks to modern medicine and an utter refusal to exit the stage gracefully, persist in hoarding resources, vomit forth their antiquated value systems, and do their utmost to ensure that every ensuing generation is saddled with debt, polluted air, and an economic landscape as barren as their moral imagination.

None of these generational tribes is innocent. The global human population, expanded and interlinked like never before, continues to ignore science, deride empirical evidence, trash the environment, and generally behave like a lemming colony sprinting toward the nearest cliff. Meanwhile, reproductive habits remain locked in some medieval pattern of “breed first, think never,” further straining resources and exacerbating divisions. In short, everyone shoulders a portion of the blame—no generation or ideology gets to hide behind a tired historical reference or a cherished TV show. It’s time to own up to this grotesque collective failure instead of flinging blame and shrieking in self-righteous indignation.

[coolmaycroft]

Wild that we live in a time when people will believe in flat earth, ancient aliens, and the Illuminati. But won't believe in social mobilization, systemic change and redistribution of wealth.