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Conspiracies (mander.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

When I first started using Facebook, a relative shared something from a conspiracy theory page, and I started reading all of the stuff from the page and it blew my mind (I was around 11 or 12 I think). But then a few conspiracy theories were too obviously wrong even for the child I was. One was a video of the moon being passed over by a cloud. Because the cloud was very thin and the moon was bright, the light shone through nearly unaltered. And the text was claiming that the cloud was passing behind the moon and that this was the evidence that the real moon had been destroyed and a fake one had been built which was much closer to earth (beneath the clouds).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I like to pretend they're memes. It makes the world a little less bleak. 😂 Sometimes they're actually unironically hilarious and you'll see them here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well this is by design. Some conspiracy theories are just out there to make everyone think all conspiracy theories are hoaxes. They are the completely idiotic ones that is impossible to even see how they would work.

The entire flat earth society is also a complete hoax. It's just there because people Google on these things and that's the first hit the search engines give you. I think they say on the page that the earth is like an elevator that goes up all the time, or something like that. :)