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You don't even need technology. You just need to get out of the city and out of a car and look at some far away mountains on a clear day.

Yeah, you'd have to be a total idiot to believe something as ridiculous as that.

Plus, everyone knows this is how the earth really is:

I thought it was Rafael Cruz’s dad is the one who was supposed to be the Zodiac killer. Or is the conspiracy that his dad was covering for him so he could go into politics and flee Texas as soon as it got chilly?

Man that chart has not aged well at all, just in the last few years. Also the artist's motivations are pretty visible.

Most of these are hyper-exaggerations of what real people believe. Or purposeful misunderstandings of the underlying point. Take 'Jet fuel can't melt steel beams' for example. Used since its inception as a meme to undermine 9/11 conspiracy theories.

Ultimately this is a tactic in itself. My conspiracy theory is that all the antisemetic theories, insane-sounding theories, theories that have no attachment to reality, rothschilds etc, are not perpetuated by ordinary people (though they unwittingly participate). They are perpetuated by the very parties the conspiracies are about. If someone hears that being a 9/11 truther is inextricably linked to antisemitism, and they think of themselves as a good person, they'll shy away from ever looking into it any further than that; it's a normal reaction if someonebis already stressed, busy, or otherwise precluded from more critical thought.

Edit: Yes some of these are totally insane, I am just referring to things that have roots firmly in reality.

I feel like this chart covers most of them, but needs a different distinction. Which ones are fun to invoke in converstion to play off the crazy and obes that ate actually off the deep end.

For example, chemtrails is a vintage conspiracy thory, its been around for a while and most people can casually make fun of it. I cant make jokes about half of that top row because most normal people just know what most of those words even mean, let alone the contents of the conspiracy.

That top row 😬😵‍💫😬😬😬. Especially after the release of the JE files, doesn't seem too implausible now.

I know Epstein, and Thiel made this chart I just can’t prove it

When ol’ Kenny-boy from Enron magically died right before his trial, which enabled his family to retain all of his money, that’s when I first started realizing that maybe these fake deaths for the ultra-wealthy are plausible.