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What are the best conspiracy theories out there? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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I'm not a conspiracy theory guy but I seen the post on 9/11 on no stupid questions and it seemed more fleshed out than I expected.

So what are conspiracy theories that turned out to be true?

And what are the most believable conspiracy theories out there?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

"America is the land of opportunity."

Edit: Maybe this just falls under "lies."

[–] mods_are_assholes 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh there's a fucktonne of opportunity if you are already rich like 99% of all the 'self made' billionaires.

Even Bill Gates came from privilege.

This is by design.

[–] SweatyFireBalls 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I always hung around the burnouts in highschool my early 20s. So many people would always claim that school was pointless because bill gates was a drop out.

He dropped out of Harvard.

No one really remembered that part. So no, sorry Paul, you never had a chance at being a billionaire when you decided to drop out from our community college in philosophy class. It turns out being a dropout wasn't what helped make the billions.

[–] mods_are_assholes 2 points 10 months ago

They have to maintain the illusion to keep us all from rioting.