“OJ Simpson Was Covering For His Son”: 21 Conspiracy Theories With Enough Evidence To Be True
When uncertainty and hardships spread across the world, such as during wars, economic depressions, and pandemics, people often grow suspicious of the ruling elite, creating all sorts of narratives about the challenging events.
However, not all of them sound as ridiculous as flat Earthers. So Reddit user Specific_Shop_3975 posted a question on the platform, asking, "What's a conspiracy with the most evidence to back it up?"
From modern art to NSFW Steam games, here are some of the most popular suspects.
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modern art is just money laundering nobody pays 2.2 million for a blank canvas
u/Zigxy added:
The brilliance of modern art money laundering can't be understated. For example:
Alfred wants to pay Brad $100k for a bribe.
Brad wants this money to be 'clean' to avoid authorities looking into him.
Brad 'sells' a worthless modern art piece for $100k.
Alfred has now successfully transferred the bribe to Alfred. However, Brad is now in possession of a painting which the 'market' says is worth $100k. Down the line the Alfred might be able to sell this now 'valuable' piece of art to a third party for $50k, $100k, or potentially at a profit!
In South Africa, they use nightclubs a lot. every week, there is some receipt floating around for people paying $100 000- for alcohol in a club in one night
Not really a problem, but if a bottle of ace of spades which usually cost about $500 dollars in all other clubs cost about $2000, that raises a lot of eyebrows
Load More Replies...OK this happened ONCE. A danish artist sold a blank canvas for $76,000 and, after a lawsuit, has been ordered to pay the money back. He called the piece "Take the Money and Run".
Oh yeah, and law enforcement agencies around the globe are so dumb that they can’t understand this very obvious fraud. Seriously… All the transactions must be declared, and your Brad will be asked where his worthless art piece came from before selling it. He will be asked to provide track records. Modern art may occasionally be used for some schemes (just like any industry) but it’s not money laundering for a very simple reason : the number of relevant assets (= art pieces) is actually very small, such as the number of big players. And thus tracking everything is quite easy and it’s not inconspicuous at all.
As an artist, I have no doubt about it. It sounds so rational in our crappy world. And it do not exclude the possibility, that some works of some artists were /are really sold for that prices too.
In the US, it's commonly believed that mattress stores are money laundering enterprises. There are 3 mattress stores in my small city of 45,000 people, and at least 20 more within a 30 minute drive. It's not like you buy a new mattress frequently, so the market is limited. Yet they all seem to thrive.
Well, under the mattress is where you keep your money until you launder it. So there is a genuine demand
Load More Replies...I'm an impressionist. While in prison, I sold a painting for a bag of jalapeno poppers. Monet never sold a painting for a bag of jalapeno poppers. I win!
That our governments are turning us all against each other to distract us from the blatant wealth manipulation, corrupt practices, nepotism, cronyism, among hundreds of other big issue things. Their plans working a treat and the people as a whole can't see what's happening and start working together against it..
We are losing our privacy, our rights and our sense of connection with one another. We drift away while they get more and more powerful. People hand away their rights like they're going to get them back and never question it when it's not.
Our planet had to deal with another of the world powers attempts at control and that's COVID or should I say the reaction to it. I was always a believer it happened naturally but as time goes on it becomes more apparent it wasn't.
We are bodies hanging from the roof being bled dry slowly but if this keeps up we aren't just f****d like a world war or nuclear war, if we don't do anything we will lose whatever control we have and we will never get it back.
In the UK, the upper class has done a tremendous job in convincing the working class that the middle class is the enemy. Here, the distinction between working class and middle class is more cultural than economic (I've met people in typical working class professions that make more than I do, and I'm solidly middle class). It's a great way of deflecting from the fact that the upper class is screwing everyone else over and holds all the power and makes all the sh*tty decisions.
Nice to see a picture of the Australian House of Representatives used to illustrate this
I absolutely believe this, but it's the corporations doing it. Of course I realize people in government are tied to those corporations in various (money making) ways.
Jan 6. It is quite literally the most well-documented event in history because so many people filmed it. A lot of those people filmed themselves doing it with their phones. We live in a strange time.
This was the point of conspiracy theory saturation. All the crazy Qanon BS came to a head that day and all the conspiracies were on display. These people conspired to overthrow the USA and when that failed, they tried to blame the political left and accused them of an even stranger more convoluted conspiracy. Some people actually believe that all those peopel in red MAGA hats that day were actually Antifa. I know Antifa. I know people in Antifa. They are incapable of that level of organization. Antifa couldn't organize a birthday party much less an insurrection. No, Jan. 6th was what it was. An attempt by MAGA to overthrow the US government and nothing else.
I used to work in a call center, and one call I got had a man bragging about having been a part of the insurrection
Wonder what they think there is to brag about? From their point of view they failed.
Load More Replies...As a Non-American, what happened on Jan 6th? The storming of the Capitol? And what exactly is the conspiracy theory here?
That it was actually leftist extremists who were storming the capitol, dressed and pretending to be right wing extremists. Needless to say it doesn't pass the sniff test.
Load More Replies...Not really a conspiracy. It was a bunch of idiots who believed they were doing the bidding of the orange skinned Oompah-Loompa/Orangutan hybrid.
How smart was it to attack and vandalize the most famous of USA government buildings in an age where every potential witness carries a pocket camera? And half of the population thinks it would be good for the country for people with that mentality to be in charge?
If you're stupid enough to be a Trump follower, you are easily stupid enough to film yourself committing felonies.
Just like the stupid people who think Biden is actually doing a better job
Load More Replies...What I don't get is that all the same people taking part in the insurrection blame it on Antifa and Nancy Pelosi at the same time. Like no, Steve, that was you.
And he will pardon them if he gets back in the White House.
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The petroleum companies knew burning fossil fuels would lead to global climate change but hid the evidence of their own funded studies and did nothing to curb consumption, instead funded groups opposed to renewable, non greenhouse gas generating energy to maximize shareholder value.
Plus, we gotta admit - they met a highly anti-interested public that's busy with more important things... People, often, don't WANT to know.
Load More Replies...Yeah that one happened. They just didn't care. They still don't care.
The question for me, where the conspiracy part comes in, is why don't they care? We only have one Earth.
Load More Replies...Yeah, this isn't a theory it's fact. Exxon commissioned environmental impact studies in the mid 70's, the results of which found that the continued use of fossil fuels would cause cataclysmic climate damage. They buried it, invested in misinformation campaigns for the public and increased lobbying efforts. This was "only" a conspiracy theory passed around by environmentalists for decades, until those buried studies surfaced and some of the people involved began to talk years ago. Despite this, people continue to justify their continued use of fossil fuels on the presumption that it's a problem for someone else to solve.
Same with tobacco industry. They knew for decades, see Philip Morris trial years ago. But eh, smoking was cool in the 80's
And then there's oxycodone, the constantly misleading nutrition advice, etc., etc. Do we need any further evidence that humans will always kill each other for money?
Load More Replies...They not only hid that, but they actively shut down any and every attempt at substitution of fossile fuels. Which could have had a real impact in decreasing emissions, for decades by now. The market won't sort everything out, let alone do it right. It needs a, sort of, playing field with rigid boundaries, and crossing them should eliminate you from it altogeter. Pull through with one, two large corps and they'd know their place and act accordingly. But, who's gonna pull through with it?
I have the exact opposite conspiracy theory. The head of the IPCC was bribed to make it look like increased atmospheric CO2 was a bad thing when in fact it is a good thing. He did that by leaving out of his reports all the good consequences of increased CO2 such as increased forest growth, improved crop yields, increased drought resistance, fewer famines, as well as the warming due to the reduction in cloud formation due to the reduction in soot pollution. He also left out that coral reefs need sea level rise to grow. It was a hatchet job aimed at killing off coal. I cried when I realised this, he had me well and truly fooled. Two thirds of the IPCC quit after the Kyoto summit when they realised how their work had been misused.
To see where we are heading, just look at Venus. The temperature there averages 900°F. The atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide. Venus was very likely habitable at one point. It never will be again, and neither will Earth.
In the UK there was a recent boom in American sweet shops that sold grossly overpriced import candy. They were suddenly everywhere after COVID, they didn’t sell much, but they were everywhere. Someone on TikTok theorised that they were all money laundering fronts, people started filming in the shops laughing at the prices, and staff always seemed to get really angry about it. Then it was announced last year (?) that there was a HMRC (UK’s tax wing of government) investigation started because the theory held water, and suddenly they all shut. The one in Leeds centre near Trinity currently has a notice of abandonment in the window and you can see the shelves are still stocked: the owners just ran off and left it. Sounds like another successful case for the TikTok detectives.
u/gnommi added:
This was in Private Eye as well, not just TikTok, and they also exposed the money-laundering scam that was operating out of central London 'souvenir' shops.
I remember seeing loads of these in London! I knew something felt off about all the ones that weren’t Kingdom Of Sweets!
Yeah I remember going to Oxford Street and they were absolutely everywhere. There's been one on Villier St near Charing Cross Station for at least as long as I've lived in London, but these other ones appeared almost overnight. Also, £10 for a small bag of goldfish crackers? F*ck that noise.
Load More Replies...Well even a broken clock... and looks like they actually stumbled onto something here
Load More Replies...The amount of American sweet shops was insane. £5 for a Twix or some s**t like that.
Yeah especially when B&M carries a whole bunch of American sweets now.
Load More Replies...Closed the little candy stores. Now no one will think of London as an international money laundering center, ever again
Ditto Turkish barbers and nail bars. I live in an area with mostly older people, there are 5 nailbars in walking distance of my house. No way are there enough people here wanting their nails done, I suspect people traffiking as well. I walked down a shopping street last week there were 6 barbers in a 500 metre stretch.
There's a bunch in other european countries as well. I went there a few times out of nostalgia, eating all the candy I remembered from my childhood before we moved
This isn't really a conspiracy theory, everyone knows that they're fronts. I wish Sadiq would crack down on them!
Here in Phoenix there has been a boom in mattress stores, self storage facilities, and car washes. Life suddenly the city is full of them. Every corner. I believe they're all fronts for money laundering
I'm.calling BS on this. They closed because they weren't selling and the Internet is easier.
Blackrock and Vanguard are buying up all the residential property they can in order to get the majority of americans renting from them. Estimates say by 2030 they will own 60% of residential property
REALPAGE! https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/realpage-antitrust-lawsuits-over-rent-prices-consolidated-tennessee-2023-04-10/ I was reading about this the other day! This is happening. Not sure about the 60% by 2030, that seems exaggerated but yeah this is happening.
Like my dad always said: “That’s how things are. They allow it to happen because in the end, we will own nothing and be happy about it.”
Load More Replies...In my area, new apartments are being built like crazy. They can get a tax break by renting to low-income renters, so they advertise as affordable housing and that they accept Section 8 vouchers, however, they can get around this law by including there is a minimum income that is well above low-income levels making it unaffordable.
I get an offer 3 to 4 times a year from a vanguard run company to buy my house. it was just in the mail now I text messages on my phone.
Investment companies, they basically hand out loans for other companies (simplified). They were the ones that killed Hollywood and the western gaming industry over the last years, too
Load More Replies...True. Buying lots of affordable and low-income properties and then doing things that forces the tenants out, evict them or almost doubles the rent. There has been multiple news stories about it and it keeps getting pushed down social media popularity rankings. They are behind a lot of anti homeless laws and other laws that takes potential tenants away from them.
Those stop oil activists who were throwing soup at paintings were paid by oil companies to make the public hate actual legit protesters of oil
I agree with you, there is no hard evidence of this, but the cynic in me can easily believe that a powerful corporation could and would do such a thing. Power and money are potent motivators.
Load More Replies...Not oil specifically, but I ran into someone recently that was a "paid protester." I asked them what they meant and it is exactly like it sounds. They get paid to show up at protests and act like they are in support of the cause. In reality, they said most of the time they couldn't care less about what the protest is about, they are just concerned about getting paid.
The oil industry makes so much profit in giving the raw material for all that platic s**t we use like bottles, food boxes and almost everything (tell me what's not containing plastic today?), they didn't really care about that little numbers of oil used in cars.
I know this could be true because that's exactly what I would advise them to do if they hired me. Of course, I wouldn't really, but I worked in military intelligence and psyops. It's really not that outlandish. There is software that lets you track how certain memes get traction on Social media and it's quite interesting to see who the bad actors are and who the "legit" spreaders are. The latest I have been tracking were "Ukraine sent western weapons to Hamas". They clearly are captured weapons, sent from Russia to iran and from Iran to Hamas, but it fits the narrative of some people to push the ukraine corruption angle.
That why it's called "conspiracy *theory*". If there were evidence it would be a fact, not a theory.
Load More Replies...Stop oil interrupted a production of Les mis a few nights ago people were really annoyed about that too.
The government deliberately leaked false information to UFO investigators to discredit them because they were getting to close to the truth. (The truth being that Area 51 was a testing grounds for spy planes and stealth aircraft and was attracting too much attention for a secret weapons facility.)
u/PM_me_ur_navel_girl added:
I think someone came up with the whole aliens thing and the government just leant into that since it was easier than trying to make up something else.
Except for the fact that UFOs predate Area 51 by decades. They called Foo Fighters during the 2nd world war. But what a good way to hide a secret spy plane base. This one in confirmed. But sorry, no flying saucers.
UFO predates Area 51 not by decades but rather by millenia. Ramayana, Bible, Epic of Gilgamesh and other ancient texts mention some encounters and facts that can be interpreted as alien contact.
Load More Replies...It's interesting how the shapes of prototypes planes changed from round to triangle shaped, and what a coincidence how UFOs changed shape as well along them...
if the us did not believe in UFO's then they would not have a standing order to not fire on them.
The thing that frustrates me most about these, are that there are always curious nuggets of information, and rather than merely leave an article at that, it quickly devolves into ancient aliens, or hidden bases on mars, so people eliminate ALL of it. Sure it's 99% bunk, but there is enough strangeness out there that it is unlikely all to be bunk.
Nobody seems to have noticed that most of the UFO sighting occurred in USA. Do we have better eyesight here?
They don't test secret aircraft at Area 51. They leak the UFO rumors, then use us to croudsource testing their security practices before deploying them at all US military bases. The big secret is that they're testing ways to keep big secrets
They mostly practice wild aircraft maneuvers in that area. They test aircraft at another base in CA that is part of area 51. Secrets are kept for national security. Do you want hamas to get this information? Aliens, pffft.
Load More Replies...I love this conspiracy. Why do you think aliens, technologically advanced enough for interstellar travel, would come here? To look at the landscape? Certainly not to meet us, I can assure you of that.
There is something fishy going on at Mattress Firm. How can they stay in business with a store in practically every plaza when the average person buys a new mattress every decade or so?
u/ggb123456 added:
Mattresses have one of the highest mark-ups in all of retail, and generally places like that have very low overhead (just a couple employees and generally low cost retail space). They simply do not require many sales to remain profitable.
I live in a small town who has few posh lighting shops, which are not small. I always wondered, how they can survive, since I never saw any customers inside buying stuff.
They mostly rely on construction contractors buying from them. Those are not usual customers that come in and browse often. You get one large development with lots of lighting fixtures and you are doing pretty good.
Load More Replies...Omg I was thinking about this as a joke once, didn’t know it was an actual conspiracy theory lol. There are several of these near where we live and I have NEVER seen a customer one. Figure they could snuggle pretty much anything in or out of all those huge mattresses 😄
The same with piano stores. They are priced so high because they sell so few. It is the only way they can stay in business.
Where I live there are 3,4, maybe 5 mattress stores all along the the same stretch of highway. Never see any customers in them. Just one or two guys sitting at their desk staring at their phones. I don't know how they stay in business.
The stock market is rigged and there's a revolving door between them and the ones "regulating" them. Some $200T worth of derivatives based on 50 or 100:1 leverage from the largest firms on the planet, all just funny money. None of it is real
I used to work for a very emotional company that is at the forefront of valuation & is the literal mastermind of the manipulation. They’re not your standard fortune 50 company, nor are they poor. It’s creepy just how manufactured the stock market is.
What's even creepier is that it is the most accepted gauge of how well the US economy is doing.
Load More Replies...I watched the ENRON fiasco from a front row seat. I was working for PG&E so it didn't go well for me.
Worst: the trading market is just on autopilot mode, with trades mades by algorythms. The fastest and more predictive wins. And there are no intern régulations while it keeps on making trading companies earn money See Jérôme Kerviel trial
My personal favorite is that OJ Simpson was covering for his son. It explains a lot of the weird s**t in that case, like the undersized glove and why they were driving at low speeds during the chase.
The undersized glove started off as an adult's size. When it was found it was covered in a lot of blood, once it was dried it shrank. The leather was really wrinkled which was caused by the lining shrinking, by the time it was used as an exhibit in the trial it wouldn't fit any adult.
more the point, when OJ 'tried' the glove on in court, he was wearing a glove already (latex/non-latex) which you'd obviously have a hard time getting a glove inside a glove because of friction and that it made his hand thicker...
Load More Replies...I love how people act like we didn't actually watch that entire chase live. Like, yes Virginia, we had helicopters and cameras and TVs back in the 90s. It's not ancient history.
The son in question was a fully gown adult so if it was undersized it wouldn't fit him either.
The British government deliberately put the RMS Lusitania in harms way to get her sunk to bring the USA into WW1. The fact the records have been resealed for another 100 years adds credence to this conspiracy
u/hagantic42 added:
Dude it's not even a conspiracy theory. The German consulate took out a two-page ad in the New York times telling people to not board because they were going to sink it. Also, at the time Britain didn't have an option but to sail the ship because it was carrying so many munitions that they desperately needed. Both governments knew the risks and they needed it to galvanize support.
It is a conspiracy theory. It's a theory that states that a conspiracy was enacted by someone, in this instance, the government of the UK. What else would you call it? The problem is that so many people dismiss conspiracy theories out of hand. You can do that in many situations, as most conspiracy theories are bogus, but some are not. Take Watergate, for example. Before it came to light and was proven true, it was theorized by two journalists who followed the evidence and proved that the conspiracy was real. So the idea that the British did this is a conspiracy theory, regardless of how true it is.
Load More Replies...No. USA didnt enter the war because Lusitania was sunk. There were much more ships torpedoed and eventually sunk, even with USA-citizens on board. Lusitania was sunk in spring of 1915, USA entered war in 1917, without one month, almost two years after Lusitania. The reason why USA entered the WW1 was the Zimmermann telegram.
But it did become the American soldier’s war cry, “Remember The Lusitania”.
Load More Replies...Nope. I studied the Lusitania extensively for a history project due to the fact my great grandfather was aboard the ship. Nothing to do with the US, it was sunk as it was carrying ammunition, that’s why it sunk so quickly
They weren't trying to get it sunk because they were using it to carry munitions. They knew it was in danger because like the entry says the Germans put out an advert telling Americans not to travel on it, but they wanted the ammunition more than they wanted the Americans in the war. That's why the records were resealed since it's illegal to use civilian vessels like that, but they had to admit to it eventually because there were groups of divers starting and the damage to their image of admitting they broke the rules many decades ago is much less than the damage they would have got if they'd kept the information secret and a bunch of civilian divers had accidentally blown themselves up.
Professional sports are all compromised by the gambling industry.
I've heard the NFL has been rigged for years. I guess it could be. Who knows?
I have been convinced that the Toronto Maple Leafs are paid to lose. Without winning they are one of the most profitable teams. Smaller market teams need the wins to gain the fan base.
and also, we're well aware of this. the FBI know about it. they've collaborated with trafficking operations because a lot of the money ends up in human trafficking. the nfl argued before the supreme court that they are an entertainment franchise and should be allowed to make any changes they need to to keep their audience. MLB has an exemption from anti-trust laws https://nypost.com/2019/06/01/every-sport-you-love-could-be-fixed/
2013 Baltimore vs san Fran they shut the lights off because the game was too one sided and the sports betting people were losing money on people not betting.
The Bilderberg group. Every year in summer, they meet, and people keep track of who are there. Guest lists every year. Top politicians, royalty, corporate owners. Extreme security. No protocols. There is confirmation from a variety of these people that they were there. So, what do they talk about? Are they coordinated somehow after each meeting? How much influence do they have? Well, given the extreme security, it's difficult to say. I am sure it's nothing, though. Why would those groups of people want to influence the world to suit their agendas, right?
"If you go down in the woods today, You're sure of a big surprise."
Load More Replies...Read the Jon Ronson book 'Them: Adventures with Extremists.' It sounds like it's just one huge billionaires networking party that keeps all the moneyed people supporting each other and ensuring they stay the powerful few.
If this was really a thing no one would know they were meeting. The fact that people know and track who is there is proof that it is not what this theory thinks.
They were a secret, until well, internet happened. Then information was a lot easier to share and find. The topics and most of the guests of the meeting are however still very much a secret. It is a real thing.
Load More Replies...Back in the 80's, I had a work assignment to migrate their membership contact details from one data format to another. It was probably the greatest test of my professional ethics; it was so tempting just to keep a copy for no reason whatsoever (I didn't). Based on my knowledge of the policy wonks I worked with, I wasn't concerned about all the conspiracy theories.
They decide who starves, who is over medicated, who stays in war and what they can ruin next
If love to think they actually meet but do nothing but hang out and drink and eat and laugh at all the conspiracy theorists having a meltdown
Right, doing this for how long? Nobody told any secrets yet? Highly unlikely.
But why would an elite group of clandestine billionaires let John Major in?
The switch in the US from employer sponsored pensions to self directed 401ks was done deliberately so that the average Joe would have a stake in the economy at large and be more likely to vote for business-friendly policies.
The change was driven by companies who didn't put enough funds into pensions and then couldn't pay pensions. It moves the investment risk from the company to the employee but reduces the risk to the employee of no pension.
The argument is we as individuals are more concerned about our own money so we would be good stewards of our 401ks, but in no way are most people educated enough in the economy to be sound money managers. 401ks are garbage unless you start early and have a good money manager. It's not going to be the low level employees. More trickle down BS from the Reagan-era.
Now do insurance. Obamacare has killed us. We used to have a family deductible of $500 or so. Today, after year after year of the shift of cost to the American family. It's $8000 before the insurance even kicks in.
I think he meant the bad kind of "boom".
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Not proven yet as correlation doesn't equal causation...
Use of leaded gasoline poisoned generations of children lowering their IQs and increasing violent behavior. And the auto and gas companies knew the health risks but didn't care. This lead to the huge rise in crime during the 1970s and 1980s and into the early 90s. And when leaded gasoline was banned, the generations and people since that didn't grow up breathing in lead contaminated air were less violent and lead to the sharp decrease in violence since the 1990s. The curves match up almost perfectly. But there were other factors that could have affected it, increase use in crack, heroin, and drug abuse, state violence, racism, etc.
[https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/lead-gasoline-blunted-iq-half-us-population-study-rcna19028](https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/lead-gasoline-blunted-iq-half-us-population-study-rcna19028)
[https://theconversation.com/a-century-of-tragedy-how-the-car-and-gas-industry-knew-about-the-health-risks-of-leaded-fuel-but-sold-it-for-100-years-anyway-173395](https://theconversation.com/a-century-of-tragedy-how-the-car-and-gas-industry-knew-about-the-health-risks-of-leaded-fuel-but-sold-it-for-100-years-anyway-173395)
[https://www.niskanencenter.org/research-roundup-lead-exposure-causes-crime/#:~:text=Based%20on%20both%20strategies%2C%20the%20researchers%20found%20that,increases.%20Removing%20lead%20from%20gasoline%20reduced%20violent%20crime](https://www.niskanencenter.org/research-roundup-lead-exposure-causes-crime/#:~:text=Based%20on%20both%20strategies%2C%20the%20researchers%20found%20that,increases.%20Removing%20lead%20from%20gasoline%20reduced%20violent%20crime)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis)
Yeah, it really annoys me that people will say that but still continue to spout whatever they believe regardless. Almost as bad as "NewSurvey Shows..." headlines, which then include text such as "the results, while not statistically significant, show...". No, they don't show anything.
Load More Replies...Lead does cause all kinds of sh*t and guess where you can end up breathing it in? Vapes, that's where. They're manufactured cheaply and many of them have dangerous amounts of lead and other deadly stuff leaking into the smoke. That sh*t needs to be properly regulated yesterday.
wasn't there also a correlation between violent crime decreasing and abortion rights?
This one is actually proven.....and while most countries have banned leaded gasoline (there are still a couple holdouts) for use in cars....it's still very widely used as an additive in AVIATION FUEL.
No, it's not 'proven' that there's any link between lead use and a rising crime rate. There is no lead added to Jet Fuel. No-one with half a clue as to why it was ever added to car fuel in the first place would suggest it. Some aviation fuel used in piston engines still contains small amounts of lead, but overall usage is a tiny, weeny fraction of what's used in cars.
Load More Replies...Freakonomics had a write up very similar to this one but it correlated lower crime rates to the legality of abortions in the 70s. There are likely quite a few different factors that played into the whole thing but each component presents strong enough that people will take it as the "one thing".
Companies stated that unleaded gas cost more because they had to remove the lead. Not so. They had to add lead to leaded gas for engine performance.
That these weird low quality NSFW games that pop out in the Steam popular list until you turn NSFW content off are money laundering targets to cash in Steam gift cards obtained via various phone scams. Steam gets their 30% of the stolen money, so they don't mind and ultimately it is super difficult to prove that real people do not buy the games since nobody would ever admit to buying them.
u/Flowchart83 added:
Damn, that's actually a good idea if you had to launder money. It could be completely automated at a large scale. If someone gets suspicious as to why so many are purchased, 'people are perverts' is a believable explanation.
OK I gotta investigate this one. I been on steam for almost 20 years and never heard of anything like that. Since when does Steam do NSFW?
Quite a while now, and yes I'm not ashamed to admit that I know that. Not if you're in Germany though, as those are region locked for us
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Jar Jar Binks is the ultimate Sith Lord
u/TheSharkFromJaws added:
I thought this one was silly until I saw the footage of him talking behind characters that are giving dialogue, almost like he is forcing them to speak. It seems like they were building to something there.
Could be misdirection... Darth Sidious seemed like a nice elderly man ;)
Load More Replies...This theory was proven to be correct. However, they shelved the idea at the last minute…
Geroge Bush pulled a Jar Jar Binks to get the government-paranoid Republican populist base to support the PATRIOT Act.
The meta-conspiracy to convince dumb people that the word “conspiracy” means “a crazy person’s imagination”
Conspiracies happen every day. There’s a global conspiracy of adults to convince kids Santa is real - it’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it’s a conspiracy.
Somewhere along the line, the word got hijacked and it immediately discredits whoever says it. It’s practically a trap to use the word, so you have to dance around it if you want to describe people planning things in secret
Nope. The dictionary is your friend. "the activity of secretly planning with other people to do something bad or illegal".
I think OP is going more for the perceived meaning, like what people first think of when they hear the word, and not dictionary definitions.
Load More Replies...Unfortunately some of those theories sometimes turn out true. I remember a case in Germany (Name was Mollat), when a visibly distressed man was seized and told the authorities that" there is a huge tax fraud conspiracy - judges, politicians, bankers, and my ex-wife is in cahoots with them...". - So they did what any sane person would, and had the man committed to an asylum. A few years later, a tax investigator was looking into a completely unrelated case and found traces of a huge tax evasion and money laundering scheme - judges, politicians, bankers, and, surpsisingly, his ex-wife WAS in cahoots with them. Trials are still going on.
There's a difference between a "conspiracy" and a "conspiracy theory". A conspiracy is a real thing that happened, for example gang members who commit criminal conspiracy. On the other hand, a "conspiracy theory" is an idea/fantasy promoted by people who are uncomfortable with the actual truth. Take the example of JFK assassination. The ugly truth is, JFK was killed by one man who acted alone and murdered the most powerful man on earth. That fact makes some people uncomfortable, they ask how could America, the greatest country on earth, allow a lone nutcase to destroy them so easily? It had to be something else right? Something huge and powerful and sinister! And so a conspiracy theory is born.
Technically true, but every real conspiracy, that we know of, was theorized at one point. Before it was proven, someone suspected it. Or, to put it another way, they had a theory.
Load More Replies...Kind of like the way the British use the word scheme to describe government programs, whereas in the US scheme means something dastardly.
conspiracies: real, exist. conspiracy theories: wacky theories about conspiracies that may or may not be real.
Not necessarily. How do you think real conspiracies are found out? Someone comes up with a theory and pursues the evidence. If it's a real conspiracy, they might be able to prove it. But if it isn't, then no evidence will surface.
Load More Replies...You are correct. People dismiss conspiracy theories out of hand. But what they forget is that every conspiracy that we know really happened was theorized before it was known to have happened. Watergate and Operation Condor are two conspiracies that really occurred. History confirms it. We know they were real. The question is what conspiracies are now being put in place by the powers that be? Will they ever see the light of day? And will they be believed, if so?
They have got a point. I felt secret shame for using that description in my 20's, and I had to braze myself during my 30's, even tho its too legit.
I feel like Luigi probably is in Super Mario 64, we just stopped looking a little too soon.
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I heard a rumour you had to get 100 percent on the game twice in a row. I thought to myself 'okay, I like Luigi but not that much, damn'.
Ufos are real and the U.S. government has been hiding information for decades. David grusch, who represents 40 firsthand witnesses. Testifies under oath to congress that Ufo reverse engineering and crash retrieval programs exist and are being funded without oversight or congressional awareness. Roswell Crash probably happened, and we have been studying what they found since 1947.
So, UFOs are coming here so often that there is a crash retrieval team and yet they're not regularly witnessed by the masses--just some people here and there. If they're here so often that we need crash retrieval teams--wouldn't they be seen as often as we seen our own planes? Also, ships from beyond our solar system have the technology to travel all this way (and apparently avoid detection), but somehow they crash so often that we need crash retrieval programs? UFOs, little green men, grays--are all some of my favorite topics. I love the idea of us being visited. But people are just willing to believe anything, even when it makes zero sense. The only things being retrieved and reversed engineered are human made aircraft from other countries.
If aliens are visiting here, why do we not see them in the pubs and bars? Basically, they're sailors, right? Voyaging across vast space. And i can tell you for sure, when sailors get where they're going, first place they head for is a bar/pub. So, if they're not in the bars/pubs, they ain't here.
Load More Replies...I mean, anything flying through the sky is a UFO until you figure out what it is lol
UFOs are always real. Unidentified Flying Object. I don't know that that thing is but I see it in the air. I've seen one, pretty sure it was a weather balloon. I didn't know what this flying object was so it was an "Unidentified Flying Object".
"Testifies under oath". Oh, well then it MUST be true. Because oath, man!
Haven't you heard? No one lies under oath. They would never.
Load More Replies...Just a reminder: UFO means unidentified flying object so anything in the air that's not been identified is a UFO. For example you see something in the sky, go wth is that, it's basically a UFO sighting. When it comes closer and you can see it's a bird, it stops being a UFO and becomes an IFO instead. UFOs are real, but not being able to identify everything flying doesn't mean it's alien.
I've had this argument more than once. You say UFO and all of a sudden you're a Roswell believer.
Load More Replies...Maybe the aliens don't need to be from lightyears away. Maybe they just from another dimension and only 20-30 years ahead of us.
UFOs are real. They are "Unknown Flying Objects" but this does not means they are of extraterrestial source. Just unidentified objects.
Boo! When you already know the US government admitted to psy-oping the entire world. When you know unmanned craft can easily fly over 7,000 miles per hour. The real truth is people hang on to this hope because they want to not believe in God
What! Nobody claiming that the USA deliberately started the war between Russia and the Ukraine. How, by convincing Putin using a false flag operation that NATO was going to site nuclear ICBMs in Ukraine on the Russian border aimed at Moscow. Why? Because fracking is expensive, so US oil couldn't compete with cheaper Russian oil on a open market. So force Europe and other countries to embargo Russian oil, blow up a Russian gas pipeline. The USA reaps over $100 billion benefit from the war in Ukraine in oil sales.
There's a dumpling place at my local mall which is absolutely 100% a money laundering front and nothing will convince me otherwise. Why? Well, they occupy a prime spot which must cost an absolute fortune in rent and yet they never do any business at all (in the brief period that they did the food was so awful it made me ill) to the point that there isn't even anyone behind the counter. Sometimes you can see a couple of people hanging around in the kitchen doing nothing, but that's it. In fact the lights out the front aren't even turned on any more. And yet somehow it's been at least two years and they haven't gone out of business. It's even become a local joke that nobody actually buys their dumplings.
There's a ice cream and desserts shop in my town that's never open! This has been ongoing for 2years now, and I have only seen the shutters up once.
Load More Replies...The government purposely adds absurd claims to conspiracy theories to make them easy to disprove. Also promotes various conspiracies simply to make legit phenomena and conspiracies seem stupid. How much can government sources and government-backed mainstream media promote UFOs?
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever read.
Load More Replies...Someone told me of their personal conspiracy theory: they believe Trump arranged for Alec Baldwin's onset fiasco with that prop gun. All as payback for when he did the SNL skit acting like Trump. I doubt there's evidence for proof but I can totally see it.
I've never seen Trump in person, obviously, but he seems to be the kind of person who can't take a joke, and who would go to any extent to get revenge for the slightest "offence", real or imaginary.
Load More Replies...Conspiracy definition needs to be shared for many folks. A confirmed fact ain't a conspiracy. (Area 51, deliberate political BS, etc.)
At least locally another business that is definitely a front for money laundering is hard-core weight lifting / body building supplement shops. Specifically the ones solely dedicated to nothing but protein / creatine / muscle mass gaining support, not the ones who also sells vitamins etc. In a town of 40k people we have 3 huge ones and have had many more pop up and close down and re open in the same spot with a new name. Theres just not nearly a bug enough weight lifting community here to support them. Especially when more obviously legit ones like vitamin king sell the same suos alongside other vitamins and nutrients and whatever else. Also a good chance those places are selling steroids on the side. I'm extra convinced because I know a dude who ran one and was using it to launder drug money. He also ended up selling his pizza place after the supplement shop was exposed as a front business.
What! Nobody claiming that the USA deliberately started the war between Russia and the Ukraine. How, by convincing Putin using a false flag operation that NATO was going to site nuclear ICBMs in Ukraine on the Russian border aimed at Moscow. Why? Because fracking is expensive, so US oil couldn't compete with cheaper Russian oil on a open market. So force Europe and other countries to embargo Russian oil, blow up a Russian gas pipeline. The USA reaps over $100 billion benefit from the war in Ukraine in oil sales.
There's a dumpling place at my local mall which is absolutely 100% a money laundering front and nothing will convince me otherwise. Why? Well, they occupy a prime spot which must cost an absolute fortune in rent and yet they never do any business at all (in the brief period that they did the food was so awful it made me ill) to the point that there isn't even anyone behind the counter. Sometimes you can see a couple of people hanging around in the kitchen doing nothing, but that's it. In fact the lights out the front aren't even turned on any more. And yet somehow it's been at least two years and they haven't gone out of business. It's even become a local joke that nobody actually buys their dumplings.
There's a ice cream and desserts shop in my town that's never open! This has been ongoing for 2years now, and I have only seen the shutters up once.
Load More Replies...The government purposely adds absurd claims to conspiracy theories to make them easy to disprove. Also promotes various conspiracies simply to make legit phenomena and conspiracies seem stupid. How much can government sources and government-backed mainstream media promote UFOs?
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever read.
Load More Replies...Someone told me of their personal conspiracy theory: they believe Trump arranged for Alec Baldwin's onset fiasco with that prop gun. All as payback for when he did the SNL skit acting like Trump. I doubt there's evidence for proof but I can totally see it.
I've never seen Trump in person, obviously, but he seems to be the kind of person who can't take a joke, and who would go to any extent to get revenge for the slightest "offence", real or imaginary.
Load More Replies...Conspiracy definition needs to be shared for many folks. A confirmed fact ain't a conspiracy. (Area 51, deliberate political BS, etc.)
At least locally another business that is definitely a front for money laundering is hard-core weight lifting / body building supplement shops. Specifically the ones solely dedicated to nothing but protein / creatine / muscle mass gaining support, not the ones who also sells vitamins etc. In a town of 40k people we have 3 huge ones and have had many more pop up and close down and re open in the same spot with a new name. Theres just not nearly a bug enough weight lifting community here to support them. Especially when more obviously legit ones like vitamin king sell the same suos alongside other vitamins and nutrients and whatever else. Also a good chance those places are selling steroids on the side. I'm extra convinced because I know a dude who ran one and was using it to launder drug money. He also ended up selling his pizza place after the supplement shop was exposed as a front business.
