Doesn’t have to be one you think is true or even possible. Could be niche or mainstream. Mine is probably Mike Tyson threw that Jake Paul fight. I heavily believe Tyson did everything he could and is just old. Not to mention he’s fighting a roided up good athlete in his physical prime with a limited engagement strategy. I do like hearing people argue its all staged, understandable cope.

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    My favorite conspiracy theory is that the stock market serves a real economic purpose that isn’t just “cryptocoin bullshit, but before they were invented”

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    That Avril Lavigne is dead. From her second album onwards it’s been Melissa, a woman initially hired as s lookalike by her record company for things like meet-and-greets. When Avril died, the record company covered it up in order to keep making money.

    I love it because:

    • it’s so blatantly nonsense
    • Lavigne has very distinctive teeth and the idea of finding an exact lookalike itself is incredibly unlikely
    • people believe it anyway
    • there’s all kind of videos comparing live footage and how different her signing voice is
    • some people** really** believe it
    • it was started by a guy on his blog with an explicit statement at the start that it wasn’t true and his intent was to demonstrate how easy it was to create a conspiracy theory…
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    Charlie Kirk was killed to distract from the Epstein files and pour some gas on the hating libs fire

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      The info they divulged that CK said he was no longer going to tow the Israel line, and then got murdered a few days later

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      That’s a conspiracy? I thought it was generally accepted as truth and part of the risks of working with that one person…

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    Neo-nazis are falling for Hollywood Propaganda and halming white nationalist causes, acting the way nazis are depicted in films like American History X, making them repugnant to normies

    I’ve seen some race realists try and talk people down from the nazi flag waving thing because “it hurts the cause”

    if only normal people thought neo-nazis were repugnant

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    oh there’s a conspiracy that a portugese caravel was shipwrecked off the Victorian coast ‘pre colonisation’, and the freemasons are covering it up, for some reason, I met an old codger who was convinced the freemasons were following him because he was close to finding the wreck.

    Just imagine a crusty old guy coming up to another crusty old guy in a country supermarket telling him to be careful, some real indiana jones type shit

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahogany_Ship

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    I think it’s possible that Robert Trump, Donald Trump’s younger brother, was an early victim of COVID. He died suddenly and was “very ill” but no specific cause was ever mentioned AFAIK. I think this was covered up because it was politically inconvenient for his brother.

    I have nothing to really base it on except the timing and reaction was suspect.

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    1. JFK´s head just did that.

    2. There´s the conspiracy theory that Justin Trudeau is actually Fidel Castros son. Trudeau´s parents actually met with Castro, one meeting was about 9 months before his birth. They also look eerily similar.

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    The Anti-vax movement was started and funded by Big Pharma, because there is more money to be made in treating a disease than there is in preventing it.

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    99% of plastic recycling programs are useless and are staged to make people feel good about themselves.

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    I’ve always loved the Denver Airport conspiracy theory - that it is actually the secret headquarters of the illuminati or other organisations. It was $2bn over budget and has tunnels under it, which have led people to claim there are also secret bunkers under the airport. It also has a few bizarre pieces of art within it.

    I think it’s just an airport with ugly aesthetic choices but I love that people think of all the places a global secret society would base itself, they’d pick Denver Airport.

    Apparently there are 6 underground levels at the airport - but they’re used to run an airport. And the tunnels were for a failed automated baggage transport system. The art is just art.

    https://allthatsinteresting.com/denver-airport-conspiracy

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    George Bush meeting with Harambe’s mother in 1999. I don’t know what the conspiracy is, but damn it makes me feel weird to see this.

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    No celebrity or famous person has commited suicide by hanging. Their death is actually from one of these two scenarios:

    1. A hitman who is known by government officials hangs the victim and makes it appear to be a suicide. The victim is either an enemy to some nefarious government agency or legislation plan (Aaron Swartz), it might be done as a way to make the victim appear dead while actually giving them a way out of their situation, so that they can create a new identity (Epstein), it could include famous celebrities who simply do not wish to perform anymore (Robin Williams) or perhaps were cancelled or fired for having knowledge they were threatening to reveal (Anthony Bourdain). Either way, this assassin is capable of infiltrating prisons and hospitals and knows how to manipulate the media and government death systems.

    2. Auto-erotic asphyxiation. Not intended to be a suicide but things going horribly wrong as they skirt death’s reach while chasing an orgasm. (David Carradine, Thomas Midgely Jr.) However, the more it appears to be a death by AEA, the more likely it actually is the first type (Trevor Moore).

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      The only issue I have with that is with the amount of wealth and connections he had, he probably would have disappeared himself before he was arrested. Unless someone even more connected felt the need to shut him up before he had the chance to use the dirt he had on people.

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        If he disappeared, people would pursue him. Given the compromising material on other wealthy and powerful people he likely had access to, it wouldn’t just be western law enforcement, but potentially intelligence agencies of adversaries, criminal organizations, and the compromised individuals themselves.

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    Not much of a conspiracy theorist guy, but: JFK was killed by the CIA, MLK and Malcolm X were partially killed by the US government at least, Jeffery Epstein was killed by DJ Trump, during his presidency, and was also an Israel asset, October 7 and 9/11 could be (partially) inside jobs based on how both countries used these attacks to start massive wars/genocides.

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      October 7 and 9/11 could be (partially) inside jobs

      Netanyahu actually supported Hamas and their takeover as the leading military force in Palestine specifically because he knew they were far more militant against Israel. A perpetual common enemy for his shithead Zionist population to rally behind forever.

      This is the same asshole who starts a new war every time he’s due for a trial for corruption.