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The US seems to be the home sweet home of conspiracy theories. From Area 51 and Bigfoot sightings to chemtrails, New World Order, Freemasonry, Illuminati, Sandy Hook, “stolen election,” COVID-19 pandemic… Well, we don’t have that much time for naming them all. But you get an idea.

But wouldn’t it be great to look at the minds of people who actually believe the conspiracy theories and see what it is in there that makes them tick? Thanks to a redditor who posed the question “What conspiracy theory do you believe to be true? What evidence led you to this conclusion?”, we are now able to do just that.

Let’s see what exactly made people believe in one conspiracy or another, and don’t forget that the truth, it’s just out there.

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Modern art exists solely for money laundering.
I believe that modern/minimalistic art exists solely for money laundering. It's just a way for rich people to move money around. There's a reason why paintings of plain geometric shapes sell for millions of dollars, and it's not because the buyers are really into shapes

WildlifeAnalysis , Thomas Chung Report

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Women's fake pockets are a marketing ploy.
Women's pants have fake pockets to make us buy purses.

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ThatOneCrazyFanGirl
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

YES. i have soooo many jeans, but their front pockets are either fake or have the size of a quarter full of room. smh

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers The US will never publicly fund college because no one would enlist in the military.
The US will never add colleges to public funding like they did high schools because then the enlistment rate for the military would plummet.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Definitely. Same goes for universal healthcare, the US government's first priority is the military; the people who elected them come second. They could use 50% of the military's budget to be the first country to completely eradicate homelessness and drastically improve quality of life for all of us AND still have the almost powerful military in the world but no.

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Eslamala
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It always amazes me how such a rich country throws away money into all sorts of idiotic s**t like war, while a large portion of its people live in absolute even-worse-than-3rd-world-countries poverty.

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Eslamala
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, we're talking about a country that loves messing with other countries' internal conflicts, so it's only logical they prioritize the military, which explains a lot...

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Leo Domitrix
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

With respect, without even looking back more than, oh, a year? Russia. China. NATO as a whole. The UN as a whole. Seeing the problem? .....

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I teach high school... and let me just say that college isn’t a path for a lot of students. And that’s totally OK! There are soooo many trades that pay way better than some jobs that require a degree. And I have NEVER had a graduating senior say they were going into the military because they couldn’t afford college. The closest thing to that was one kiddo who told me he wasn’t ready for college, but instead of taking a gap year or two... the military would give him a GI bill, so when he WAS ready... he’d at least have it paid for. In my experience... most of my students who enlist in the military, do so because they don’t feel “cut out” for college, but they want to learn a useful trade and get paid to do it... and have a guaranteed job afterwards.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We really should change the dialog to “continued education” and re-aspirationalize trade schools and stuff. Trade schools are awesome! College isn’t for everyone! Military can be included as well, as it is a form of education. (I know not even those are for everyone, but I think a lot of people would be happier).

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Leo Domitrix
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ummm.... if you join the US military, you qualify for The GI Bill, which allows for much less expensive college costs for veterans. That said, the imablance in my nation's budget toward the military really freaks me out. Can't we have educated healthy civilians, too? Please?

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Shane S
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think they’ll never find college because they need an ignorant populace. For the system to work, they need cattle punching the clock.

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Dave P
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

um we have over 400 publicly funded colleges in the USA. You just don't know what you are talking about. In New York for example we have CUNY and SUNY schools, which are FREE for any student from a family earning under 120k, and just $7100 a year for students in state whose families earn above that. Every single state has publicly funded colleges, every state has a threshold where students get it for free, we just do not have Federal funded because of our 50 state system. This claim is based on ignorance of US, US Education System, and US Military

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is only true if the reason everyone enlisted because they couldn't or wouldn't pay for college. And thinking that everyone wants to go to college is also outrageous.

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I agree some enlist to go kill some "moslems" or "ahabs" or worse yet "sand n***as". I should have added... these aren't my words these are words from some YOUNG soldiers I had misfortune to work with. That 'some' makes up 100% of YOUNG soldiers I have known in my life. By YOUNG I mean post 911 enlisters.

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John Louis
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Without real, tangible evidence this is pointless. Please provide the who, what, when, where, why, and how.

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JE Cummings
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Possibly, but the military actually used to fund college with the GI Bill. That's how I got my degrees.

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Eva B
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Look it up, but I think it is quite correct: Since The United States of America was founded in 1776, this country has been in war for 222 years out of 243 years. That is, the 93% of its time since it exists.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is ignorance at it's best. This is written by the narrow minded people who think the military is only for stupid people, or those who cannot get a "real job". There are plenty of people who could care less about college. Besides, if the military taught me anything it's that just because you have a college degree, does not mean you are intelligent, smart, or have common sense.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This used to be true, but every year it is less --- as the army gets more sophisticated tech-wise, they need more and more college graduated. The "enlist to get out of the ghetto/poverty"-route is getting more and more closed off --- another branch of the "american dream" that's died.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is that true or just assumed? Genuine question. I would think the military would be willing to educate you themselves. Then they can get people with the very specific knowledge base they are looking for. Do they actually turn down able-bodied people?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But that's why there's a draft. A lot of kids in college were sent to Viet Nam. If you have people in a college that was publicly funded, and the gov/college said they're not educating you anymore and closing the because you have to join the military to go fight some war...in a way you'd have a captive army or a lot of defectors who you could punish.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There are 17 states that provide free community college and I suspect there are more on the way.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think americans are one the most brainwashed society in the world right now. Rejecting universal healthcare and free education because that's communist. And what the f**k is student loans? You have to borrow from your country and repay it with interest just to get education.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t know why you are downvoted. I’m American and I can say this is definitely true. Those in power want the status quo to remain and all those are ways to get that. Undereducating people is the bedrock to getting us to fight against our own self interests (and the long term interest of the country).

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Counter point - do we need an army of tens of thousands any more? If all battles are going to be online? Re-purpose them to work on infrastructure.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't buy this. MANY other developed countries mandate military service. If there aren't enough military personnel they'll institute the draft. They've done it before. They'll probably do it again. If you ladies want true sexual equality, you'll sign up for Selective Service.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Agreeing to serve time in the military in exchange for them paying your university fees up front is bonded labour. If anyone else did this it would be illegal..

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I don't want the US to publicly fund college. They can't educate kids K-12, what makes you think more government involvement is going to be an improvement for college?

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Conspiracies are covered under a veil of unknown, much like these theories they represent. They appear from seemingly out of nowhere, start surfing around on social media, some become a part of urban legends, while others disappear until new speculations emerge.

To find out how exactly conspiracies work and what goes on inside conspiracy theorists' minds, Bored Panda reached out to Thomas Roulet, a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Theory and the Deputy Director of the MBA Programme at the University of Cambridge. Thomas is also the author of the 2020 book “The Power of Being Divisive: Understanding Negative Social Evaluations” published by Stanford University Press.

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When asked a rather broad question on why people believe conspiracies, Thomas said that there are two main mechanisms in charge: “a sensemaking one and an identity one.”

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers All my devices listen in on me. The other day I was arguing with my Dad about some chicken I thought had gone off (it was frozen for about a month so we weren't too sure but my Dad was insistent that it was still edible). Dad decided to ask Google, and low and behold the related searches even from the first letter were: "Is chicken edible after being frozen for a month" and "How long can you freeze chicken before it goes off".

Also, my Mum and I use this tactic where if we need to ring up a company about something and it puts us in a queue, we swear at it. It then puts you on a priority list and you don't have to wait as long. Kinda sketchy on the company's behalf.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I do legit belive in this, for example i was talking with a gf about matracess, and look at that, add on facebook suddenly become an ad for matracess... And no, i didnt google it

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers That the government uses social media to manipulate, and measure public sentiment and opinion.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is true for some countries. Britain, Australia, Scotland have prosecuted people with the wrong opinions on social media. China is a few steps ahead, using social media to "ferret" out nonconformists and their friends. They also track Uighurs this way.

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers The 10-year challenge was used to collect facial recognition data.
The 10-year challenge all over social media is actually a way to record and gather more facial recognition data.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's why I refuse to show my face unless I'm in cosplay on the internet somehow I'm to shy to put my cosplay on and take a couple photos

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“In an increasingly complex world, people want to make sense of their situation and their social environment. Seemingly unconnected events or clues are constructed as a coherent whole in the most successful conspiracy theories.”

Thomas added that “in a world where social connections are numerous but often meaningless (for example, on social media), people want to feel part of a crowd and a group—there is a need to find a tribe and identify with it.” As a result, “Conspiracy theorists have a strong sense of group identity, which made them attractive to those who might feel marginalized or excluded in society,” he explained.

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers I believe that the government probably makes some conspiracy theories to try to make questioning the government seem somewhat crazy.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Definitely. Which is why whenever anyone questions the government they get branded as conspiracy theorists, placing them at the same level as flat earth believers or something else ridiculous.

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Area 51 is not a place for secret government/military testing with aliens and stuff, instead Area 51 is a scapegoat while shady behind the scenes stuff is going on at another military base that the general public doesnt know about.



I mean if you were really going to do something in secrecy, would you do it in the place where everyone thinks it is? Hell no! I dont have any specific evidence to back this up but it makes sense right?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This makes sense. The only reason Area 51 came to light was because of the Roswell Incident. Otherwise it would have maintained it's secrecy. Area 51 is so notorious now that there is no way the military would have anything covert going on there other than normal military operations.

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Banks and landowners conspire to manipulate urban land prices. Turn an area into a ghetto by marking it as a high-risk loan proposition, denying loans in the area. Property values plummet on a down-town area because no one can sell, because no one can get a loan. Once things are down enough, you can buy up prime location land at pennies on the dollar then re-develop it into being worth the 'real' market value of such a central location, plus what you invested in the actual development.

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According to Thomas, “People buy into conspiracy theories are in all parts of society—from the most to the least educated, from the richest to the poorest,” so no particular group of people is safe from believing in conspiracies. It’s because “everybody needs to be able to make sense of their reality, and everybody needs to feel part of a group and socially integrated.”

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers I used to tell people that I believed the government listened to or phone calls. Years later some guy named Snowden proved me right.

Jim3001 , Didgeman Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually, there was a surveillance program called Echelon which was about to be uncovered. Then 9/11 happened...

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers I believe the US military went to Afghanistan in order to seize control of the Poppy fields and instead of destroying them they manufactured black tar and other forms of heroin and sent it back to the states. I have several friends that were marines in Afghanistan and they've confirmed these suspicions. The drugs got worse after being in Afghanistan not better or more contained. The USA military is the biggest cartel in the world

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers The lines on the detergent caps are higher than they should be so you use more detergent for each load of laundry. It's so easy for them to get away with it

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not a conspiracy theory. The recommended dosage for detergent is more than enough to be effective. There are a lot of factors that can affect the performance, so they can't recommend a lower amount because if it didn't work, everyone would think it was crap. They need something that covers everyone. The added advantage is that people tend to use more. The sensible thing to do is to adjust your dosage to factor in the soilage, water quality and your machines performance. Most people can drop the dosage quite considerably.

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Many new conspiracies have emerged in times of the worldwide pandemic, and Thomas says that it has to do with the fact that the current situation adds complexity and changes on a daily basis.

“It is hard to comprehend, to understand, and it's brutal and sudden. All of this makes people want to make sense of an incredible, unprecedented, and difficult-to-accept situation. Such a unique situation calls for an out-of-the-ordinary explanation—and lends itself well to conspiracy theories.”

Moreover, “People are looking for information, and they are looking for culprits to explain the terrible situations they have to experience. They want to believe this can be pinned on a specific actor,” he concluded.

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Priceless artwork and historical documents are replicas.
I’ve always speculated that a lot of priceless artwork and historical documents are actually replicas or copies.

Obviously a painting by a world-famous artist using a very specific technique would be very hard to fake, and I don’t think that every art scholar in the world is paid off in some grand conspiracy. Rather, I just think that either the national treasures never left their vaults or that some national treasures actually were lost to history but they were copied.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A few museums actually place their most expensive items in a secure vault and only display replicas to the public. However, according to all information available, the original Mona Lisa is on display.

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Modern drug prohibition is a "for profit" endeavor perpetrated by governments for the benefit of pharmaceutical corporations, prison industrials, and warlords.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, that's... pretty much accurate. US conspiracy theories tend to be either straight up 'they're putting brain slug spores in the vaccines to mind-control us' or 'stuff the government admitted to doing, but quietly'.

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers The countdown timers on ads for games or streaming services are actually longer than seconds. Seems too long sometimes.

danielle8088 , John Johnston Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think they just count the 0 and delay the countdown itself as well

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Disney only named a movie Frozen to distract from 'frozen head' Google searches.
That Disney made a movie named Frozen so that when people google things like 'frozen' and 'Disney' together, info about the movie comes up instead of stories about Walt Disney’s frozen head.

g_stokes12 , disney Report

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers The Hawaii nuke false alarm was a test.
The Hawaii nuke false alarm last year was actually the US government testing to see how the general population would react if an actual nuclear war broke out.

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers 23 and Me is run by the government to collect your DNA and database it for later.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How is this a conspiracy? They are already using the DNA collected to solve 'cold case' murders. I don't know about this company specifically, but all it would take is a warrant for them to have to share their data.

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers UFO sightings are just humans from the future on a time-traveling safari.
All the UFO sightings throughout history are just humans from the future on a time-traveling safari meant to observe how we were in the past. They are supposed to keep out of sight, but thanks to human/mechanical errors, there have been hiccups with their cloaking which have resulted in being seen. That's why there have always been so many reports of them throughout history, but there has never been an attack. It's just us.

Also the reason why we don't see as many examples of UFOs now even though pretty much everyone has a camera is because people are not that interested in this time period since we already document aspects of human life all the time.

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers When Ted Kaczynski (the unabomber) was at Harvard, he participated in a brutal psychological experiment led by professor Henry Murray. The experiment lasted for three years and by many accounts they seemed to have an extreme impact on Kaczynski’s psyche. I think this experiment was part of the CIA’s MKUltra project and destabilized Kaczynski enough to where he eventually went on his reign of terror of sending bombed packages around the country.

During the MKUltra project, the CIA collaborated with university professors on these mind-control experiments but a lot of the documentation was destroyed when people started to look into it.

TL;DR: The unabomber participated in an experiment that was a part of the MKULtra project that eventually led to him becoming a mass-murderer.

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers I believe in the mattress store conspiracy, so the conspiracy is that mattress stores are for money laundering. I went onto google maps and typed in ‘mattress stores near me’. There were 4 MATTRESS STORES IN THE SAME SHOPPING CENTER. There was a road that had 5 mattress stores less than a mile apart. So I definitely believe in it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or places like vacuum stores or fan stores that only sell one type of thing in a small town. If there is no way they could possibly get enough business to make it; it is suspicious.

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers I believe that chapstick causes lips to become more dry a couple hours after usage. I base this on the fact that my lips are more dry 5 hours after using chapstick than 2 days after using it

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers I’m starting to believe anti-dandruff shampoo actually causes dandruff.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anti-dandruff shampoo is only for people with an oily scalp. If you have dandruff caused bydry, scalp this shampoo will only make it worse. Then you need a mild shampoo tgat will moisturize your scalp.

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Apple started the AirPod memes.
I believe that Apple started the 'wearing AirPods = cool/rich' meme intentionally to boost sales. They became the best-selling wireless earbuds worldwide after the meme.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or it could be that the users of the best selling phone naturally continued on to the accessory that accompanies in. iPhone users are generally known to constantly update. “What!? They’ve REMOVED a button from the latest handset? I must buy”!

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 wasn't an accident. There were definitely external forces that catalyzed its disappearance. The flight path was diverted many times and there was a lot of shady stuff about some of the passengers and the pilot of Flight 370. We may never know unless the plane is found.

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Michael Jordan's father was murdered in retribution for Jordan not paying off massive gambling debt. Jordan didn't retire and then come back, he was suspended for gambling. In the mid 90's, Michael Jordan was an industry. The truth about his gambling habits may have cost a lot of people a lot of money, so the cover story was presented.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Does anyone have any idea how much Michael Jordan is worth? If he couldn't pay off a gambling debt, he was in deep

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Tinder gives fake 'You got a new match!' notifications to get you to swipe more.
I have a theory that Tinder gives fake 'You got a new match!' notifications so people get excited and open Tinder, which leads them to swipe more.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would say "you got new people like you" not "you got a match". Matching would mean both people liked each other so you would know if you liked them. But you can't know if someone liked you without actually swiping right!

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Restaurant owners sing 'Happy Birthday' to embarrass you.
Restaurant owners know how awkward it is to be sung to in front of the whole establishment, and they do it to discourage people from taking advantage of their free birthday food.

ThatQueerWerewolf , lokate366 Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'll never be discouraged from cashing in on free birthday food. Sing to me, dance for me, whatever..give me my free sundae

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers Gas station owners are the ones putting the card scammers on the pumps. They don't want your info, they want you to distrust pay at the pump so you'll come inside and make an impulse buy. Most stations barely make any money of gas, the money is in the stuff they sell inside.

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Someone Asks People To Share Conspiracy Theories That They Actually Believe In, Here Are 30 Answers The bacon industry is ever so slightly making normal sliced bacon thinner every few years,so that eventually,what was once considered normal sliced bacon becomes thick cut,thus saving the big bacon industry money.

My only evidence is the fact that my bacon,which I have always and will only buy from a specific brand,seems to be getting thinner and thinner,more flimsy,more likely to fall apart as I get it out of the package.

NBr33zii , Didriks Report

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Sue Hazlewood
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So the one brand you use is doing this, according to you, so all the industry is?

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