Conspiracy Theories

[leicsmac]

9 minutes ago, peach0000 said:

9/11 ones are always really difficult to disprove but at the same time really hard to prove. I certainly believe it's something that the US could have self inflicted to further the interests of a power hungry president. 

 

The biggest thing for me that would suggest it to be a hoax would be it being faked just to one up the soviets. However the soviets tracked them to the moon and even congratulated the US on their achievement, I don't believe the Soviets would have done this had it been a hoax. 

In reality, this is the biggest proof that conspiracy wasn't true.

 

The USSR knowing that the US faked the Moon landings and letting them get away with it at the height of the Cold War? No chance.

[SpacedX]

4 minutes ago, ozleicester said:

Please advise how many topics im allowed to post in.

 

As many as you wish, I enjoy your posts.

 

4 minutes ago, ozleicester said:

I would suggest that discussion of theories is part of the requirement to stop them becoming overblown.

 

Agree. Usually an impossible feat though since attempts at rational discourse with the majority of online conspiracy believers are generally futile.

 

6 minutes ago, ozleicester said:

so effectively you want proof, but dont want anyone to talk about theories?

You can "talk about" whatever you wish, but in the absence of substantiation it is little more than worthless anecdotal conjecture.

[yorkie1999]

47 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

In reality, this is the biggest proof that conspiracy wasn't true.

 

The USSR knowing that the US faked the Moon landings and letting them get away with it at the height of the Cold War? No chance.

But who would believe them, we all saw it with our own eyes.

[yorkie1999]

47 minutes ago, Line-X said:

As many as you wish, I enjoy your posts.

 

Agree. Usually an impossible feat though since attempts at rational discourse with the majority of online conspiracy believers are generally futile.

 

You can "talk about" whatever you wish, but in the absence of substantiation it is little more than worthless anecdotal conjecture.

There's a million photos on the internet and you probably know that, but what you want is for people to start posting them, so you can put up an explanation for them.

[SpacedX]

3 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

There's a million photos on the internet and you probably know that, but what you want is for people to start posting them, so you can put up an explanation for them.

Not with you. "A million photos" of what precisely? 

[leicsmac]

17 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

But who would believe them, we all saw it with our own eyes.

It wouldn't matter to them if the Americans (or even the British) didn't believe them, simply being able to imply it was a fake job would have given them immense kudos with the Warsaw Pact countries which would have been reason enough for them to try.

 

They managed to foster and bring out a shedload of conspiracy theories about JFK getting shot for the sake of formenting unrest in the US - why wouldn't they do the same for the Moon landings unless they were sure it was on the level and there were no threads for them to pick at?

[Suzie the Fox]

I used to believe in the Roswell incident, but have watched a zillion programmes on it and am now convinced it was one of our (not alien) prototype's that crashed and the cover up was so we could keep 

the plane secret. 

[Carl the Llama]

5 hours ago, leicsmac said:

It wouldn't matter to them if the Americans (or even the British) didn't believe them, simply being able to imply it was a fake job would have given them immense kudos with the Warsaw Pact countries which would have been reason enough for them to try.

 

They managed to foster and bring out a shedload of conspiracy theories about JFK getting shot for the sake of formenting unrest in the US - why wouldn't they do the same for the Moon landings unless they were sure it was on the level and there were no threads for them to pick at?

I guess you could argue that conceding the space race meant no longer needing to fund their own space program as much?

[don_danbury]

fluoride and the third eye.

[fuchsntf]

There has been a definite,and now proved conspiracy..

That all kids and mums...stop their dads doing what they really want!!

And have been trained in secret lessons at school,how to roll their eyes.

Or blink innocently that automatically melts the father's hearts.......

If that then fails their secret P/e training to exact decibels of screaming,that leaves 

Dad's begging for mercy,that they give double the pocket money,while being brain-washed!!

[Guest TaggertvsWise]

Anyone seen Behind The Curve documentary on Flat Earthers on Netflix. Worth a view if you are into this type of thing

[peach0000]

16 minutes ago, TaggertvsWise said:

Anyone seen Behind The Curve documentary on Flat Earthers on Netflix. Worth a view if you are into this type of thing

I watched it and they seemed semi-believable until the flat earthers started doing experiments themselves that proved them wrong.

[Guest TaggertvsWise]

That was hilarious... their efforts to disprove science was ?‍♂️

[Carl the Llama]

Loved the moment where that lady's complaining how some people insist on believing daft conspiracies about her in the face of all evidence she provides to the contrary, then she nearly has a moment of clarity about how that describes her flat earth beliefs before diving back into denial.

[leicsmac]

4 hours ago, Carl the Llama said:

I guess you could argue that conceding the space race meant no longer needing to fund their own space program as much?

That's a possibility, though tbh given their reputation and the way they did things I still think they'd value the loss of face over any money. Regimes like that thrive on their reputation as without it they tend to fall, as it did 20-odd years later.

[ozleicester]

Venezuela right now

[Vacamion]

On 02/03/2019 at 05:38, Vacamion said:

 

The Russkies not only have an asset in the White House, over whom they have kompromat, and a network of US politicians who they also have dirt on, but they also directed and paid for the stuff which tipped the balance to make Brexit happen, in order to achieve a weakened USA, collapsing NATO and Europe in chaos, which are all in their interests. 

 

It's all connected via Cambridge Analytica, Farage's association with prominent Republicans and Russkies, that Aussie Albino Perv living in a broom cupboard at the Ecuadorian Embassy and the dubious source of Banks's funding of Vote Leave. 

 

I read too much Carole Cadwalladr on Twitter.  

 

Channel Four News this evening leading on some of this about Banks, Russia and funding of Vote Leave. 

 

Not to say it isn't tinfoil hatted. 

 

Just has a widening audience. 

 

[VLC86]

Leon Crnic isn’t real.

[peach0000]

This 'knife crime epidemic' is being used by the government to distract us from something, maybe brexit, maybe something else.

[fleetofox]

paul macartney and elton john had rod stewarts baby

[Jon the Hat]

On 02/03/2019 at 08:24, Fox92 said:

I have an interest in conspiracy theories. 9/11 is my main one, there's a lot there that doesn't add up. 

There generally is in life.

[ozleicester]

On 06/03/2019 at 22:42, peach0000 said:

This 'knife crime epidemic' is being used by the government to distract us from something, maybe brexit, maybe something else.

i think Brexit is the distraction