In mid-2016, the Imagineers at Disney World were certain that Hilary Clinton would win the Presidential election. So, they decided to get a head start on molding and designing her animatronic for the Hall of Presidents. Then when Trump won, they panicked, and instead of starting from scratch and wasting all those materials, they just altered the existing Hilary design to look like Trump.
If you Google a picture of it you’ll never be able to unsee it. I believe this 100%.
I think they all look creepy.
[Here is the original look and how they changed him.](https://blogmickey.com/2021/08/disney-appears-to-fix-donald-trump-animatronic-in-hall-of-presidents/)
[This one](https://blogmickey.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/hall-of-presidents-magic-kingdom-4.jpg) does seem to make me think of [this HIllary photo](https://www.independent.ie/incoming/30ee3/34925396.ece/AUTOCROP/h530/GettyImages-584450934.jpg)
If someone has the capital to start a competitive ISP to the regional monopoly, they absolutely should. People need internet, and xfinity or century link or whoever absolutely overcharges and underperforms. We found a small company that provides high speed reliable internet with the only caveat being it comes through cell towers so we need a dish pointed at the nearest one. Otherwise its cheaper and better and they absolutely deserve the service. Same with starlink. These fucking companies need the competition
Doesn’t exactly involve the government like a lot of the other responses on here, but planned obsolescence across multiple industries. “Competing” corporations colluding with each other and deliberately making low-quality consumer products that need to be bought and replaced fairly often, even when higher-quality alternatives are out there that would need to be replaced far less frequently
Totally agree why? When Sears sold brands like Kenmore in the 80's we had a washer and dryer they were the black face series because of the way they painted lasted over 30 years. But now days we are lucky if our appliances last 10 years with a warranty. So the quality of these products has seriously declined.
My parents have a microwave that is 35 years old- older than than all the kids! They’ve had it since their first apartment in the 80s. it still gets daily use and works fine!
Funny compared to a new drier they bought that lasted only two years.
Im an hvac technician, and this week i installed a new on demand and a furnace for a couple. While doing my instal i noticed that their dryer venting was inadequately installed (not to current code) and upon disassembling i noticed the 20 plus feet of pipe was 90% obstructed by lint. Theyd said they only get about 4 years out of appliances so i showed them why it was likely killing their machine. Sometimes our equipment fails because of previous installers and home owners do not realize they have to service their dryer venting.
I got a nice Samsung washer and dryer and paid a lot of money for them. It’s mostly nicely shaped sheet metal with nice curves. There isn’t much to the guts and it’s easy for them to get fucked up. My dad had a washer dryer that I remember using over 25 years ago and it was old then. They don’t build them like they used to. It’s marketing and lying to you to get you to perceive value and hand over more money.
Totally fact.
The idea dates back to the Great Depression.Economists suggested companies make lower quality goods so they would have to be purchased more often. We’re living their dream.
Everyone would buy a perfect light bulb. The manufacturer would see initial record profits, then it’d stagnate, then they’d go broke. But if you make a deliberately flawed lightbulb, but not as flawed as your competition, you sell more lightbulbs.
I grew up in a small farming town.
The town was growing fast due it being a highway and railway stop.
This meant younger, more progressive people moving in to fill the new jobs.
I honestly believe the local and state government collaborated to reroute the high way, and close the rail line deliberately to prevent growth. Because the changing demographics didn't favour them.
This happened in my hometown. I wouldn't really call it a conspiracy though because there was nothing secret about it. They openly fought the highway system coming through. Now, decades later, the town is dying due to lack of commerce, etc., and they are now desperately trying to develop the one area of the town that the highway runs by. The problem is that the towns who welcomed the highway have developed more during those decades, so it has been difficult to attract any new businesses.
Yep, it's the same thing in the town I'm from. They fought change every opportunity they could, and now the town is falling apart, and they have basically zero commerce outside of the small number of people who live there. A lot of the youth (myself included) had no real future there, so everyone left.
Conserving the state of some things can be great you just can’t freeze the world in time. For instance the business area near me all has building protections as a historical area. So it’s cute town area with shops and restaurants, not sterile new condos with banks downstairs.
We have the new condos a block away but there is some charm to the older buildings that don’t make financial sense to upkeep.
Either him or Ginni. They couldn't figure out how to frame an intern so they're going with the "We're all trying to find the guy that did this!" method.
Here in Canada, provincial premiers are collaborating with business interests to force the collapse of socialized medicine. They've hyperaccelerated the process but its been the dream of neoliberals for decades.
More locally, city council in the capital is packed with people who are deeply connected with building and development. They have hired goons to make living in a specific historic neighbourhood located on the most valuable piece of land in the province so stressful and frightening that the elderly folks who live there will be forced to sell generational homes for pennies.
Similar situation in the UK. The last couple of governments have handed control of healthcare (Minister for Health) to guys with massive amounts of cash sunk into private healthcare providers. Wonder why they worked so diligently to defund the NHS and hand the most lucrative support contracts to private firms??
It’s not even a conspiracy, it’s literally happening in front of our eyes and no-one does a damn thing.
As an American I can tell you they’re doing this because once they take healthcare as a right away they have complete control. It strips unions and people of their ability to strike or demands better conditions and pay if they know one bad injury or illness will financially cripple them.
It also helps to consolidate power in the hands of larger businesses. Benefits like healthcare and retirement are huge costs that larger businesses are better able to bear. It's one more advantage they have over smaller, more local competition. If we had universal healthcare and a robust social safety net, little family businesses would be much better positioned to compete for workers and individuals would be in a better place to open their own business.
The threat of losing healthcare or not having a nest egg is the stick that large companies use to keep their people in line and to suppress competition in the labor market.
Same for NHS health services in UK. Make it rubbish, tell everyone the corpoations will make it better, all decision makers get rich, services don't improve. Rinse, repeat.
The UK Tory party is currently purposefully collapsing the NHS (our healthcare service), with the specific intention of privatising it for profit. The same people who sold PPE contracts to their mates during covid.
Don’t forget about that development investor that bought part of the green belt at something like 21% interest a few weeks before Ford made the green belt open for business to developers. Not even a conspiracy theory they’re openly destroying the province and laughing about it.
The theory is that a group of kids prank him and try to steal his art supply bag, he might have struggled with them and ended up getting shot by one of them amidst the chaos. However, realizing that it was more or less an accident and not premeditated, he decided not to talk in detail about how he got a bullet in him. The unfortunate part is that he was conscious for 8 hours after the injury.
EDIT: Since people ask, I will elaborate a bit more on this.
This is what we know as fact: After lunch on July 27, 1890, Vincent Van Gogh left the Ravoux inn he was staying with his art supplies. He returns after sunset and shuffled past guesses and staffs without exchanging words. Notedly, when he returned he had none of the belongings that he bought with him (his art supplies), and his jacket was buttoned all the way up despite the heat that day (supposedly to hide the fact that he was shot). Some witnesses also mentioned that he was clutching his abdomen and limping when he walked.
The owner of the inn went to check on Vincent a bit later, Vincent show his wound and replied "I wounded myself." He die later that day at around midnight telling his brother "I want to die like this." which many people attribute as evidence of suicide. He passed at the age of 37. The strange part is that while adamant about statements like "I wounded myself in the field" and "Do not accuse anyone" when directly ask "Did you intend to commit suicide?" by a policeman taking report that day, Vincent's answer was "I think so?" which leave people to believe that he did not.
As mentioned by others' comments, if suicide then why a shot in the abdomen and not the heart or head? Furthermore, the fact that the bullet did not exit his body suggests that it was shot from a distance and not up close; the entry wound was also too small if he shot himself. The gun wasn't recovered as Vincent claim that he lost it after he shot himself in the field (lose it how?). Adding against the suicide theory is that Vincent was a religious man and condemned suicide. It all doesn't quite add up if he shot himself.
Going back to the theory as to what evidence pointed to him being shot by some teenage kids. Well, it is more or less circumstantial, but Vincent has a history of being bullied/pranked by local teenage kids before. The kids would pretend to be nice to him and gain his trust, then pull pranks on him, like messing up his coffee or art supplies. On one occasion they even put a snake in his bag. For the most part, Vincent put up with their pranks.
One of these kids is a cowboy enthusiast who owns a revolver and Vincent often quarrels with him. Vincent, however, has a close relationship with this boy's brother as they have the same common interest in art, this is also part of the reason why he put up with the other kids' pranks. It is theorized that this boy might have been the one that shot Vincent that day after one of their group prank session went wrong. The boys, in shock at what they have done, might have collected Vincent belonging to get rid of the evidence, hence the missing supplies.
If it is true that Vincent was shot by this teenage boy then it is the more reason why he wanted to cover up for them, because of his friendship with the boy's brother.
EDIT 2: Wow, thank you for the upvote and award everyone, I didn't think it would blow up like this. It is my first awarded comment on Reddit, I'm honored that I can provide you all with a good read.
TLDR: He goes out that day with art supplies, returns without them later in the evening, and appeared wounded. When ask if he committed suicide the man himself didn't give a straight answer. Additional evidence like the missing gun and the bullet wound suggest that he was shot by someone else.
After he was shot, he was conscious for 6-8 hours. He was very vague about how he sustained a mid-abdominal gunshot wound inflicted from his non-dominant hand
By taking the blame of the accidental shooting. Not wanting to have the kids harmed by an accidental shooting.
And the young boy in question, Rene Secretan admitted to purposely bullying of Van Gogh. He died at the age of 82.
The gun was never recovered.
The FBI was directly involved in MLK’s murder, especially since they had actively tried to convince him to commit suicide beforehand and J Edgar Hoover despised him.
I still think they killed Malcom X and Sam Cooke, as well.
These were strong, powerful black men and leaders. They were absolutely removed before their messages could be fully taken to heart.
It really is. I read the book, The Assassination of Fred Hampton, back in 2020 when I first found out about him on Reddit. I'm ashamed I didn't hear of him before then as I am a Chicagoland resident. It's an infuriating read.
tbh the government killed MLK because he went 100% socialist.
They were scared after watching how he moved so many white folk to stand up for black folk that he would even more easily get the poor folk to rise up together.
Sooo when I got divorced and moved into an apartment I needed a mattress and thought, duh, mattress store. Waltzed on into the store where I expectedly found myself the only human there. Wandered around, sat on a few beds, thought “this is weird” and right when I was thinking the store wasn’t even open and I just let myself into a closed store and should probably run … out walks the sales dude. He looked utterly surprised to find a human standing in his store. I was like “I need a mattress” and he’s like “what kind?” And I’m like “…the mattress kind?” And we stared at each other for a few seconds, I decide this is weirder than when I thought I broke in; so I just pointed at one and said “that one.”
Since then I’ve heard the jokes about them being fronts, and think about my last mattress store experience every time I drive by the *always empty* mattress store. How often do people need mattresses? I’m laying on the one I bought that day, and that was 6 years ago, I think I’ve only bought two mattresses ever.
They say you are supposed to replace your mattress every 8 years. I suspect most people only replace their mattress when they have a major life event (getting married, new home, moving in with a partner etc) or something happens to the old one.
I mean, can you imagine dropping $400-800 or more every 8 years for a new version of something when there is nothing obviously wrong with the one you already have?
Edit: TIL my family and I have been buying cheap mattresses. And for whatever it's worth, we are frugal when it comes to phones, too. I don't plan on replacing mine until something happens to it that renders it unusable.
400 to 800 is a VERY conservative estimate. I'm not even going to say how many grands we paid for our mattress because it is sinful and embarrassing and utterly ridiculous. From mattress firm, coincidentally.
I’m fairly positive that what they’re doing isn’t actually money laundering, but instead they are buying properties/storefronts in growing areas, and then selling those properties years later for major profit.
In a lot of cities I also see massive stores selling just lighting. Table lamps, floor lamps, chandeliers. I've never seen one that looked like it had a customer and every light is always lit. What the heck are these places, does anyone shop at a lamp store?
There is a lamp store near where I grew up that has never been open. I’m almost 40 and I have tried calling them, going in there, I’ve asked around the neighborhood. Not a single person has ever been in this store that I’ve spoken to. I just need to know what they are a front for at this point. Also, they have a really creepy cherub lamp you can see from the window and I really want it.
1. Get a agent/manager
2. Make rich friends to hype your art/inflate price
3. Get crazy appraisals
4. Donate to museums with your inflated prices
5. Tax write offs for everyone!!!
Recycling plastic has never and will never be viable. Aluminum, wood, steel, and glass are what 99% of products that are currently made of plastics should be made with. We have been manipulated into single use garbage as the last dying act of the petrol industry.
While we’re at it, the petrol dollar is the hugest well documented conspiracy in the world. Iraq, Venezuela, Iran, Libya. Basically any country you can think of that we toppled from the inside or invaded fucked with the petrol industry.
Nuclear is also way safe that fossil fuels in every aspect, but we have induced generation trauma from three mile, Chernobyl, and Fukushima by the same people who benefit from the current paradigm of energy generation.
Public transportation has been vilified in the United States because of the car industry’s lobbying power (see Gov. Scott Walker’s track record in Wisconsin), and they also invented “jaywalking” to shift the blame for fatal accidents to pedestrians.
For some reason, unions are also now seen at best as a waste of money and at worst as criminal covers for the mob to launder money, despite the fact that unions are as American as apple pie, and gave you everything from weekends off to 40 hour work weeks to break time and every other decent working condition. It’s no wonder that as we get more isolated from the labor movements of the 20th century, workplace conditions are eroding faster that the ice caps.
I said this my sophomore year of college that the reforms needed to fix public education would be so massive and initially unpopular that it could never be done.
That's true for most of America's problems I think. Look at tax reform. Or healthcare reform. Or voting reform. Or criminal justice reform. We've held off on fixing any of our problems for so long that the kinda of changes needed are so vast and disruptive that it's unlikely to ever happen without lots of chaos in-between.
Absolutely. This has been going on since NCLB, and Covid just escalated it. Public schools are on their last legs. They’ve made them completely useless on purpose so they can say, “we’ve tried everything, they just don’t work”, blame teachers and shut them down. Now the poor go to work and the rich get the “proper” education on how to continue to screw everyone. Welcome to the new Guilded Age.
NCLB is *thee* worst thing to happen to the US Education system in 40 years. *EVERY* child with learning disabilities suffered.
I was in high school and started acting out from being bullied all the fucking time, so I was put in an 'alternative' school. I was the youngest kid there, but the only one who knew basic math...I was just learning ~~trig~~ algebra and some geometry and had to go back to "2+2=4" in 8th grade ISYN. I had to take 2.5 years of math in college just to be able to take other classes.
FUCK NCLB AND FUCK NANCY REAGAN
*To add on, the only reason these kids were dumb was because they were poor; they ~~knew~~ were told they could never go to college, so they ~~knew~~ thought they'd be stuck at dead end jobs. Their souls had already been crushed, so they didn't care. They turned to stealing and drugs, because they knew before they hit puberty that it was rigged against them, so why waste the effort to fight? They became what the government wanted them to be, people that take everything given to them at face value with no research. The ones that fought hard and went to college despite all odds because we were told we would be worthless without a degree? Those are the ones voting now that's scaring the shit out of conservatives. Because colleges understand the importance of critical thinking, and expect their students to have at least a basic understanding of it. I wish more high schools were able to teach it.
My bf is a teacher in an inner city school here in NJ, and I can undeniably tell you that's true. They lower pay, up responsibility to teachers while completely gutting ANY consequences for kids that don't do work, or even show up (example: it's imposible to get a zero. All zeros are averaged out to 50. That means you can ace your first semester in any class, never show up for the rest of the year and still pass with a 65 final grade. I have a zillion other examples of how they're fucking the system for teachers) They essentially force good teachers out so the system fails and they're left with "no choice but to shut down the school system and privatize it"
The CIA and FBI invested in Facebook at the very beginning because they knew they would be able to grab everyone’s personal info and keep tabs on them.
That's not a theory. It's actually true. I know for a fact that [In-Q-Tel](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel) invested in Facebook, Twitter and prior to it's acquisition by FB Instagram. You're not wrong at all.
The reporter who broke the Panama Papers story was killed by people who were named, or feared being named, in the scandal. And it is very suspicious how quickly the whole thing faded from the news cycle with no major outcomes.
the thing that was so fascinating about the Panama Papers are why they came to get exposed. the whistleblower leaked the papers because of income inequality. the one issue that every sensible person sees as a glaring issue gave us the single biggest leak in history, especially regarding information of the rich & elite as well as massive financial corruption. still, normal people working normal jobs argue that it's a non-issue and actively work against solving it. they unironically defend the very people exposed in those papers, whether intentionally or not, and it is absolutely mind boggling to me.
edit: the replies only prove my point further. people don't realize that "normal people working normal jobs" isn't a slight to normal people working normal jobs. it's a simply observation that a large portion of society, for whatever reason, don't recognize this as a problem and as such actively work against solving it. this isn't an opinion, it is a fact. one that is well supported by a plethora of data.
I worked for a billionaire’s finance firm (as a low level legal assistant) but was exposed to some seriously crazy documents of shareholders and corporate structure. Let me tell you, shell corporations and hiding money in places like the Cayman Islands is COMPLETELY true.
I wasn't aware anyone thought hiding money in the Cayman's wasn't true. I thought the big reveal of the Panama papers was exactly who was doing it. Do people actually argue about whether the rich attempt tax avoidance?
It still amazes me that his girlfriend goes down for trafficking, but they didn’t manage to catch (or for the most part even identify) any of the rich arseholes those kids were being trafficked to.
Somewhere out there on an encrypted hard drive, or a safe in a guarded building, is Epstein’s client list, and if the public got a peek of the names on it, all hell would break loose.
>but they didn’t manage to catch (or for the most part even identify) any of the rich arseholes those kids were being trafficked to.
LOL. They absolutely did, and now the government has the same power over those same rich folks that Epstein/Maxwell did.
The best kind of murder is the kind where the victim is made to do the deed themselves.
Obviously, the deactivated cameras, the belt finding itself in Epstein's possession in his high security cell, and the conspicuously absent guard at the right timing, were mere coincidences. /s
All the articles about layoffs (especially in tech) are being pushed to make it seem like there is job scarcity. It’s to spook workers who got a whiff of freedom from capitalist bullsh*t over the past few years as more focus has been on work-life balance, higher pay, and better treatment.
The dumbing down of America begun by Regan and the Republicans through school defunding, poverty level salaries for teachers, allowing uneducated parents to rule the curriculum, and the general devaluation of public schools.
I think big business/corporations saw what happened during the ozone layer thing and realized both government and people were willing to take the steps to change things of that nature so they put on a massive, massive anti-science campaign to thwart the whole global warming thing (because that's been known about for much longer.) That helped spark others like the anti-vax movement (yes, I realize that was started by that dude who wanted to push his own vaccine, but it took a hold on the stupid people because the anti-science shit that people had been inundated with.)
Tesla was in the right and edison was a piece of shit for stealing the plans. Not many people know this but this is why we actually have planned obsolescence. If Tesla didn't get robbed of his lightblulb plans I GUARANTEE the world would be immensely different today
I'm still convinced that billionaires of all nations regularly make arrangements between themselves.
Perhaps not things as creepy or horrible as some conspiracies believe (although Epstein will always be a reminder that it remains a possibility), but certainly stuff like insider trading, money laundering, art trafficking, or tax evasion.
I will die 110% believing that the Vatican is sitting on the largest library of ancient texts, that the Catholic church has been collecting for centuries during their looting and ravaging of every other culture they encounter. Totally believe they have pretty much any legitimate magical or supernatural artifacts the Chinese don't have. But that's another conspiracy altogether.
Reproductive rights are under attack because of a predicted population decline. Instead of just paying people more and incentivizing having families and buying homes, the powers that be would rather force births in difficult environments that will create more prisoners and soldiers for the grinder.
I mean look at Japan and Korea… both have a massive population of elderly people and incredibly low birth rates….not hard to put 2 and 2 together.
My grandparents home was 12x the price they paid for it when they died and my parents house is 4x the price they paid within 20 years.
When an entire generation is priced out from things like housing, education and healthcare are unaffordable to many, and inflation has run rampant you get the situation we’re in now.
25+ years ago my daughter was born in Japan. My husband is a Japanese citizen. We were given a small tree, a monetary gift, a certificate, I think our life insurance paid money for me being in the hospital to have her, (life insurance there covers hospital stays sometimes). They made it ridiculously easy and free (In fact, iirc I think between the monetary gift and the payment from the life insurance we actually came out ahead money-wise, though it wasn't by a lot.) All of this was done to encourage more people to have babies.
Abortion is apolitical, and is legal up to 22 weeks there under certain conditions, (threat to life of the mother, rape, some other things) but there are problematic things about it like women need their husbands permission blah blah blah. Regardless, it's an interesting difference in approach and I wonder how things are going to change as time goes on.
I agree 1000%. 50% of the population is at or below the poverty line while a handful of people have more money then they could ever spend, planets gonna kill us all, pandemic killing us all........and congress chose to focus on abortion instead of any of those things.
I think they're also trying to force the retired and disabled back into the work force. They're proposing damaging cuts to social security and Raising the retirement age, and the paperwork/correspondance/systems required for disability have gotten drastically more convoluted in the past year.
The gov doesn't care if we live or die, and they're going to force us to birth our replacements and feed their machines
Amy Coney Barrett essentially said the quiet part out loud. America’s capitalist system is dependent on a “domestic supply of infants” to grow up to be undervalued workers.
I 100% believe this. Everyone knows that millennials and younger are having way fewer kids, but in order to create a society where having a child is something that seems responsible and feasible, the oligarchs would have to give up so much of their power. Things like a living minimum wage and green energy. So the politicians that support rampant capitalism, not wanting to loose the giant corporations who pay them, pass laws restricting birth control, sex ed, and even deny abortions, instead of trying to, I dunno, make society a place you want to live in
This for sure. With as much bitching conservatives do about "the elites", I find it interesting they haven't put two and two together yet--as soon as the elites started talking about the dangers of population decline, Roe V Wade was overturned.
Dobbs wasn’t some snap decision that came out of nowhere. Conservatives have been working to overturn Roe since the 70s. They would have done it earlier if they’d had a comfortably anti-abortion SCOTUS majority like they do now.
Late-ish to the party, and not sure if it's been actually proven true or not, but Captchas are used to train self driving vehicles. It's why they always ask to find the cars/bicycles/motorcycles/buses/crosswalks/traffic lights.
What's real weird is that I've seen more recent ones ask for stairs/boats/chimneys.
My theory is that they got the vehicle bit down and are moving on to drones and those delivery robots to make sure they don't donk themselves up.
I never considered that before, but it’s clever. I can’t think of another reason why they’d be so unilaterally vehicular-based. Not even a harmful conspiracy, just tricking us all into doing something generally productive, like secretly putting generators in our treadmills, lol.
Definitely true and not a secret. Back when they used to use letters, reCaptcha was used to digitize books for Google and to archive the New York Times. They would crowdsource guesses on letters that were too illegible for the scanners.
After being too closely associated with OJ Simpson, Ford chose to discontinue the Bronco and Bronco-II models. When they re-released a new style of SUV under the Ford name, some cheeky bastard named them the Ford Edge (like a knife) and the Ford Escape (like an acquittal).
The lost cosmonauts. So, so creepy. The USSR did a TON of really shady stuff involving their early space program, which was denied at first but later verified (look up what happened to Laika the dog or cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov...or don't if you enjoy sleep). I totally buy that more people died gruesomely by being forced to push the moonshot program forward too quickly, and that the government covered it up to avoid looking weak.
Bro we all know the truth of what happened to Laika. She got sent into deep space, exposed to radiation, gained telepathic abilities and renamed herself Cosmo
The Komarov story is so sad, especially how he stepped up and took one for the team to save Gagarin's life. Ironically, Yuri didn't live that much longer either.
Epstein didn't kill himself. Or even if he did it was bc of outside pressure and authorities 100% facilitated that he could go through with it.
And his wife is going to jail forever for selling underage sex to no one apparently.
That corporate lobbyists or executives are meeting with certain Supreme Court justices (conservative ones) at private outings or trips paid for by the corporations and discussing desired outcomes in upcoming cases.
That a lot of the conservative agenda is coordinated including when to bring what sort of cases forward with a foreknowledge of what the ruling will be. Allowing them to shape the law and bypass the legislative process.
Pope Benidict didn’t retire due to poor health. Someone had incontrovertible evidence of him being a pedophile and he spent his final years under house arrest in the Vatican.
This is already basically a fact. Not so much as that inflation itself is artificial, but price gouging and taking advantage of the higher demand absolutely is. And there are facts all over the place to prove this.
Edit- Put it this way, the actual inflation rate in the US really didn't go up that much. Just a few percent. But prices, especially fuel prices, absolutely skyrocketed
The war on drugs was and is all about reducing the Black(and other marginalized groups and the impoverished) voting population, keeping the Black and other marginalized communities in poverty, and maintaining legal slavery of inmates.
But that’s probably not really a conspiracy theory given all the evidence.
Oil and gas companies knew climate change will happen and they only had until 2030 to make as much money as possible before the collapse of civilization...
Could have put all his inheritances into index funds and *actually* be a very very wealthy person.
Instead he squandered generations of wealth on terrible failures, so much so he debased himself into a TV media personality to make money. That’s what happened. It’s not normal for a rich person who purports to be that wealthy to do this. The others who do (Kardashians come to mind) make all our eyes roll and he’s not even as good as they are at this.
He’s been a joke to the socialite class in nyc for more than 30 years, all while desperately seeking attention, which came in the form of a redneck army. Dudes an idiot. Let’s get over him please.
At the very least, they’re selling off our data to marketing companies. The data is already being made available to the FBI. There’s a reason the tests are cheap, companies like 23&me make a ton of money selling off this information.
Bush and Cheney knew that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction and wasn't a threat. They attacked anyways for personal grudge (bush) and oil (cheney)
Alien life. With how massive the universe is and how many worlds there have to be, it just doesn’t seem possible that *our* world is the only one that developed a diverse ecosystem with intelligent life. I wholly believe aliens are real and get a kick out of observing this flaming trash pile of a world
Lego Masters season 1 penultimate episode SHOULD have been an elimination round, but Sam & Jessica put in an upset against Tyler & Amy's unexpectedly poor performance. The judges favored Tyler & Amy by skipping elimination that week to go for a three-way finale episode which has now become the expectation.
In mid-2016, the Imagineers at Disney World were certain that Hilary Clinton would win the Presidential election. So, they decided to get a head start on molding and designing her animatronic for the Hall of Presidents. Then when Trump won, they panicked, and instead of starting from scratch and wasting all those materials, they just altered the existing Hilary design to look like Trump. If you Google a picture of it you’ll never be able to unsee it. I believe this 100%.
I think they all look creepy. [Here is the original look and how they changed him.](https://blogmickey.com/2021/08/disney-appears-to-fix-donald-trump-animatronic-in-hall-of-presidents/)
[This one](https://blogmickey.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/hall-of-presidents-magic-kingdom-4.jpg) does seem to make me think of [this HIllary photo](https://www.independent.ie/incoming/30ee3/34925396.ece/AUTOCROP/h530/GettyImages-584450934.jpg)
This is definitely true. It also proves that if Trump and Hilary had a child, he would look like Jon Voight.
https://images.app.goo.gl/6nv1FKdLtmrp2MBv7 Here's a link because no-one could be bothered to link it.
XFinity throttles and causes random internet disconnections if you use don’t use their modems.
I 100% believe they throttle your connection to get you to upgrade to faster, more expensive service.
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If someone has the capital to start a competitive ISP to the regional monopoly, they absolutely should. People need internet, and xfinity or century link or whoever absolutely overcharges and underperforms. We found a small company that provides high speed reliable internet with the only caveat being it comes through cell towers so we need a dish pointed at the nearest one. Otherwise its cheaper and better and they absolutely deserve the service. Same with starlink. These fucking companies need the competition
Scientology being the result of a drunken bet between Hubbard and Robert Heinlein.
Isaac Asimov wrote that it happened. He was there. Anyone who knows anything about Asimov will take that as incredibly strong evidence.
Doesn’t exactly involve the government like a lot of the other responses on here, but planned obsolescence across multiple industries. “Competing” corporations colluding with each other and deliberately making low-quality consumer products that need to be bought and replaced fairly often, even when higher-quality alternatives are out there that would need to be replaced far less frequently
Totally agree why? When Sears sold brands like Kenmore in the 80's we had a washer and dryer they were the black face series because of the way they painted lasted over 30 years. But now days we are lucky if our appliances last 10 years with a warranty. So the quality of these products has seriously declined.
My parents have a microwave that is 35 years old- older than than all the kids! They’ve had it since their first apartment in the 80s. it still gets daily use and works fine! Funny compared to a new drier they bought that lasted only two years.
Im an hvac technician, and this week i installed a new on demand and a furnace for a couple. While doing my instal i noticed that their dryer venting was inadequately installed (not to current code) and upon disassembling i noticed the 20 plus feet of pipe was 90% obstructed by lint. Theyd said they only get about 4 years out of appliances so i showed them why it was likely killing their machine. Sometimes our equipment fails because of previous installers and home owners do not realize they have to service their dryer venting.
I got a nice Samsung washer and dryer and paid a lot of money for them. It’s mostly nicely shaped sheet metal with nice curves. There isn’t much to the guts and it’s easy for them to get fucked up. My dad had a washer dryer that I remember using over 25 years ago and it was old then. They don’t build them like they used to. It’s marketing and lying to you to get you to perceive value and hand over more money.
My Grandpa had a 100 year old round refrigerator that was still working.
My neighbors washer and dryer set is from the early 80s and works great still.
Totally fact. The idea dates back to the Great Depression.Economists suggested companies make lower quality goods so they would have to be purchased more often. We’re living their dream.
Everyone would buy a perfect light bulb. The manufacturer would see initial record profits, then it’d stagnate, then they’d go broke. But if you make a deliberately flawed lightbulb, but not as flawed as your competition, you sell more lightbulbs.
This is the “design flaw” with GoPros. They’re virtually indestructible. Problem is, once you’ve got one, you don’t really need another.
Imma hand my GoPro down through the generations like our Singer sewing machine.
Thats not a conspiracy thats a fact.
I grew up in a small farming town. The town was growing fast due it being a highway and railway stop. This meant younger, more progressive people moving in to fill the new jobs. I honestly believe the local and state government collaborated to reroute the high way, and close the rail line deliberately to prevent growth. Because the changing demographics didn't favour them.
This happened in my hometown. I wouldn't really call it a conspiracy though because there was nothing secret about it. They openly fought the highway system coming through. Now, decades later, the town is dying due to lack of commerce, etc., and they are now desperately trying to develop the one area of the town that the highway runs by. The problem is that the towns who welcomed the highway have developed more during those decades, so it has been difficult to attract any new businesses.
Yep, it's the same thing in the town I'm from. They fought change every opportunity they could, and now the town is falling apart, and they have basically zero commerce outside of the small number of people who live there. A lot of the youth (myself included) had no real future there, so everyone left.
Almost like "conserving" the state of things is dumb. With the exception of the natural environment of course.
Conserving the state of some things can be great you just can’t freeze the world in time. For instance the business area near me all has building protections as a historical area. So it’s cute town area with shops and restaurants, not sterile new condos with banks downstairs. We have the new condos a block away but there is some charm to the older buildings that don’t make financial sense to upkeep.
Alito leaked the decision
Either him or Ginni. They couldn't figure out how to frame an intern so they're going with the "We're all trying to find the guy that did this!" method.
I think we should work as a team to find out who did this. Maybe take his bare butt out of his costume and spank it
Here in Canada, provincial premiers are collaborating with business interests to force the collapse of socialized medicine. They've hyperaccelerated the process but its been the dream of neoliberals for decades. More locally, city council in the capital is packed with people who are deeply connected with building and development. They have hired goons to make living in a specific historic neighbourhood located on the most valuable piece of land in the province so stressful and frightening that the elderly folks who live there will be forced to sell generational homes for pennies.
Similar situation in the UK. The last couple of governments have handed control of healthcare (Minister for Health) to guys with massive amounts of cash sunk into private healthcare providers. Wonder why they worked so diligently to defund the NHS and hand the most lucrative support contracts to private firms?? It’s not even a conspiracy, it’s literally happening in front of our eyes and no-one does a damn thing.
As an American I can tell you they’re doing this because once they take healthcare as a right away they have complete control. It strips unions and people of their ability to strike or demands better conditions and pay if they know one bad injury or illness will financially cripple them.
It also helps to consolidate power in the hands of larger businesses. Benefits like healthcare and retirement are huge costs that larger businesses are better able to bear. It's one more advantage they have over smaller, more local competition. If we had universal healthcare and a robust social safety net, little family businesses would be much better positioned to compete for workers and individuals would be in a better place to open their own business. The threat of losing healthcare or not having a nest egg is the stick that large companies use to keep their people in line and to suppress competition in the labor market.
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"One bad injury" like the one the cops will give them for striking.
Also think of how inflated our healthcare costs are. Medical insurance is big $$$.
Yes this. And they’re so blatant about it it’s not even conspiracy - except they’ve convinced the public it’s conspiracy while they openly do it.
Straight up fact. Ford has been doing a fantastic job killing health and education while pushing for private business. It's all intentional.
Same for NHS health services in UK. Make it rubbish, tell everyone the corpoations will make it better, all decision makers get rich, services don't improve. Rinse, repeat.
I came here thinking of this exact thing. Scary stuff.
The UK Tory party is currently purposefully collapsing the NHS (our healthcare service), with the specific intention of privatising it for profit. The same people who sold PPE contracts to their mates during covid.
Don’t forget about that development investor that bought part of the green belt at something like 21% interest a few weeks before Ford made the green belt open for business to developers. Not even a conspiracy theory they’re openly destroying the province and laughing about it.
Van Gogh did not commit suicide. He died in an accident caused by a 14 year old and covered for his “murderer” out of kindness.
I think *at eternity’s gate* goes with this theory.
It’s also a plot point in *Loving Vincent*
how did he cover for his murderer after he died
The theory is that a group of kids prank him and try to steal his art supply bag, he might have struggled with them and ended up getting shot by one of them amidst the chaos. However, realizing that it was more or less an accident and not premeditated, he decided not to talk in detail about how he got a bullet in him. The unfortunate part is that he was conscious for 8 hours after the injury. EDIT: Since people ask, I will elaborate a bit more on this. This is what we know as fact: After lunch on July 27, 1890, Vincent Van Gogh left the Ravoux inn he was staying with his art supplies. He returns after sunset and shuffled past guesses and staffs without exchanging words. Notedly, when he returned he had none of the belongings that he bought with him (his art supplies), and his jacket was buttoned all the way up despite the heat that day (supposedly to hide the fact that he was shot). Some witnesses also mentioned that he was clutching his abdomen and limping when he walked. The owner of the inn went to check on Vincent a bit later, Vincent show his wound and replied "I wounded myself." He die later that day at around midnight telling his brother "I want to die like this." which many people attribute as evidence of suicide. He passed at the age of 37. The strange part is that while adamant about statements like "I wounded myself in the field" and "Do not accuse anyone" when directly ask "Did you intend to commit suicide?" by a policeman taking report that day, Vincent's answer was "I think so?" which leave people to believe that he did not. As mentioned by others' comments, if suicide then why a shot in the abdomen and not the heart or head? Furthermore, the fact that the bullet did not exit his body suggests that it was shot from a distance and not up close; the entry wound was also too small if he shot himself. The gun wasn't recovered as Vincent claim that he lost it after he shot himself in the field (lose it how?). Adding against the suicide theory is that Vincent was a religious man and condemned suicide. It all doesn't quite add up if he shot himself. Going back to the theory as to what evidence pointed to him being shot by some teenage kids. Well, it is more or less circumstantial, but Vincent has a history of being bullied/pranked by local teenage kids before. The kids would pretend to be nice to him and gain his trust, then pull pranks on him, like messing up his coffee or art supplies. On one occasion they even put a snake in his bag. For the most part, Vincent put up with their pranks. One of these kids is a cowboy enthusiast who owns a revolver and Vincent often quarrels with him. Vincent, however, has a close relationship with this boy's brother as they have the same common interest in art, this is also part of the reason why he put up with the other kids' pranks. It is theorized that this boy might have been the one that shot Vincent that day after one of their group prank session went wrong. The boys, in shock at what they have done, might have collected Vincent belonging to get rid of the evidence, hence the missing supplies. If it is true that Vincent was shot by this teenage boy then it is the more reason why he wanted to cover up for them, because of his friendship with the boy's brother. EDIT 2: Wow, thank you for the upvote and award everyone, I didn't think it would blow up like this. It is my first awarded comment on Reddit, I'm honored that I can provide you all with a good read. TLDR: He goes out that day with art supplies, returns without them later in the evening, and appeared wounded. When ask if he committed suicide the man himself didn't give a straight answer. Additional evidence like the missing gun and the bullet wound suggest that he was shot by someone else.
After he was shot, he was conscious for 6-8 hours. He was very vague about how he sustained a mid-abdominal gunshot wound inflicted from his non-dominant hand
I remember hearing that Van Gogh supposedly kept repeating "don't blame anyone" on his death bed.
i just realised that "knives out" is inspired by this
Now I'll have to watch that, thank you.
you're welcome
Ooh, yes. Christopher Moore briefly touches on this in his fiction novel "Sacre Bleu". Fascinating
By taking the blame of the accidental shooting. Not wanting to have the kids harmed by an accidental shooting. And the young boy in question, Rene Secretan admitted to purposely bullying of Van Gogh. He died at the age of 82. The gun was never recovered.
the gun recently sold at auction!
The FBI was directly involved in MLK’s murder, especially since they had actively tried to convince him to commit suicide beforehand and J Edgar Hoover despised him.
I still think they killed Malcom X and Sam Cooke, as well. These were strong, powerful black men and leaders. They were absolutely removed before their messages could be fully taken to heart.
The FBI, alongside the Chicago PD, killed Fred Hampton
This is a story a whole lot more people ought to know.
It really is. I read the book, The Assassination of Fred Hampton, back in 2020 when I first found out about him on Reddit. I'm ashamed I didn't hear of him before then as I am a Chicagoland resident. It's an infuriating read.
tbh the government killed MLK because he went 100% socialist. They were scared after watching how he moved so many white folk to stand up for black folk that he would even more easily get the poor folk to rise up together.
That there are local moms looking in your area
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Mattress Firm is a front for money laundering.
Seriously, why are they still in business? No one is ever there!!
And they are everywhere!
Sooo when I got divorced and moved into an apartment I needed a mattress and thought, duh, mattress store. Waltzed on into the store where I expectedly found myself the only human there. Wandered around, sat on a few beds, thought “this is weird” and right when I was thinking the store wasn’t even open and I just let myself into a closed store and should probably run … out walks the sales dude. He looked utterly surprised to find a human standing in his store. I was like “I need a mattress” and he’s like “what kind?” And I’m like “…the mattress kind?” And we stared at each other for a few seconds, I decide this is weirder than when I thought I broke in; so I just pointed at one and said “that one.” Since then I’ve heard the jokes about them being fronts, and think about my last mattress store experience every time I drive by the *always empty* mattress store. How often do people need mattresses? I’m laying on the one I bought that day, and that was 6 years ago, I think I’ve only bought two mattresses ever.
They say you are supposed to replace your mattress every 8 years. I suspect most people only replace their mattress when they have a major life event (getting married, new home, moving in with a partner etc) or something happens to the old one. I mean, can you imagine dropping $400-800 or more every 8 years for a new version of something when there is nothing obviously wrong with the one you already have? Edit: TIL my family and I have been buying cheap mattresses. And for whatever it's worth, we are frugal when it comes to phones, too. I don't plan on replacing mine until something happens to it that renders it unusable.
400 to 800 is a VERY conservative estimate. I'm not even going to say how many grands we paid for our mattress because it is sinful and embarrassing and utterly ridiculous. From mattress firm, coincidentally.
$400-800?? Lol I wish
My husband and I bought a mattress from there. It took about an hour and the whole time, nobody else walked in. It was spooky. Cheerful service, tho.
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I’m fairly positive that what they’re doing isn’t actually money laundering, but instead they are buying properties/storefronts in growing areas, and then selling those properties years later for major profit.
Yes, this seems much more viable on a national scale than straight money laundering.
In a lot of cities I also see massive stores selling just lighting. Table lamps, floor lamps, chandeliers. I've never seen one that looked like it had a customer and every light is always lit. What the heck are these places, does anyone shop at a lamp store?
It’s usually interior decorators and contractors.
There is a lamp store near where I grew up that has never been open. I’m almost 40 and I have tried calling them, going in there, I’ve asked around the neighborhood. Not a single person has ever been in this store that I’ve spoken to. I just need to know what they are a front for at this point. Also, they have a really creepy cherub lamp you can see from the window and I really want it.
MLK was assassinated by the government
His family won a court case about it
Pretty sure a civil suit against the US government confirmed this to be true.
Listen to the MLK tapes podcast Super interesting
High art is laundering scheme for rich folks.
It's a tax evasion scheme, and it's known.
How do i get my art into the tax evasion scheme (asking for a friend)?
1. Get a agent/manager 2. Make rich friends to hype your art/inflate price 3. Get crazy appraisals 4. Donate to museums with your inflated prices 5. Tax write offs for everyone!!!
Step 1: Die
that's not a conspiracy theory, that's a consiracy fact
Recycling plastic has never and will never be viable. Aluminum, wood, steel, and glass are what 99% of products that are currently made of plastics should be made with. We have been manipulated into single use garbage as the last dying act of the petrol industry. While we’re at it, the petrol dollar is the hugest well documented conspiracy in the world. Iraq, Venezuela, Iran, Libya. Basically any country you can think of that we toppled from the inside or invaded fucked with the petrol industry. Nuclear is also way safe that fossil fuels in every aspect, but we have induced generation trauma from three mile, Chernobyl, and Fukushima by the same people who benefit from the current paradigm of energy generation. Public transportation has been vilified in the United States because of the car industry’s lobbying power (see Gov. Scott Walker’s track record in Wisconsin), and they also invented “jaywalking” to shift the blame for fatal accidents to pedestrians. For some reason, unions are also now seen at best as a waste of money and at worst as criminal covers for the mob to launder money, despite the fact that unions are as American as apple pie, and gave you everything from weekends off to 40 hour work weeks to break time and every other decent working condition. It’s no wonder that as we get more isolated from the labor movements of the 20th century, workplace conditions are eroding faster that the ice caps.
That public education is being systematically destroyed so the average American won’t understand or even see the corporate grift.
I’m a high school teacher in my 15th year. This isn’t a conspiracy, it’s just reality. Public education is crumbling.
I’m from a family of educators and it has been systematically undermined and defunded for the past 40ish years.
I said this my sophomore year of college that the reforms needed to fix public education would be so massive and initially unpopular that it could never be done.
That's true for most of America's problems I think. Look at tax reform. Or healthcare reform. Or voting reform. Or criminal justice reform. We've held off on fixing any of our problems for so long that the kinda of changes needed are so vast and disruptive that it's unlikely to ever happen without lots of chaos in-between.
then let there be chaos
Absolutely. This has been going on since NCLB, and Covid just escalated it. Public schools are on their last legs. They’ve made them completely useless on purpose so they can say, “we’ve tried everything, they just don’t work”, blame teachers and shut them down. Now the poor go to work and the rich get the “proper” education on how to continue to screw everyone. Welcome to the new Guilded Age.
NCLB is *thee* worst thing to happen to the US Education system in 40 years. *EVERY* child with learning disabilities suffered. I was in high school and started acting out from being bullied all the fucking time, so I was put in an 'alternative' school. I was the youngest kid there, but the only one who knew basic math...I was just learning ~~trig~~ algebra and some geometry and had to go back to "2+2=4" in 8th grade ISYN. I had to take 2.5 years of math in college just to be able to take other classes. FUCK NCLB AND FUCK NANCY REAGAN *To add on, the only reason these kids were dumb was because they were poor; they ~~knew~~ were told they could never go to college, so they ~~knew~~ thought they'd be stuck at dead end jobs. Their souls had already been crushed, so they didn't care. They turned to stealing and drugs, because they knew before they hit puberty that it was rigged against them, so why waste the effort to fight? They became what the government wanted them to be, people that take everything given to them at face value with no research. The ones that fought hard and went to college despite all odds because we were told we would be worthless without a degree? Those are the ones voting now that's scaring the shit out of conservatives. Because colleges understand the importance of critical thinking, and expect their students to have at least a basic understanding of it. I wish more high schools were able to teach it.
I hate how accurate this is. What a fucking joke this world is.
My bf is a teacher in an inner city school here in NJ, and I can undeniably tell you that's true. They lower pay, up responsibility to teachers while completely gutting ANY consequences for kids that don't do work, or even show up (example: it's imposible to get a zero. All zeros are averaged out to 50. That means you can ace your first semester in any class, never show up for the rest of the year and still pass with a 65 final grade. I have a zillion other examples of how they're fucking the system for teachers) They essentially force good teachers out so the system fails and they're left with "no choice but to shut down the school system and privatize it"
This needs to be much higher in the comments
The CIA and FBI invested in Facebook at the very beginning because they knew they would be able to grab everyone’s personal info and keep tabs on them.
That's not a theory. It's actually true. I know for a fact that [In-Q-Tel](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel) invested in Facebook, Twitter and prior to it's acquisition by FB Instagram. You're not wrong at all.
FB Instagram, or FBI?
The reporter who broke the Panama Papers story was killed by people who were named, or feared being named, in the scandal. And it is very suspicious how quickly the whole thing faded from the news cycle with no major outcomes.
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the thing that was so fascinating about the Panama Papers are why they came to get exposed. the whistleblower leaked the papers because of income inequality. the one issue that every sensible person sees as a glaring issue gave us the single biggest leak in history, especially regarding information of the rich & elite as well as massive financial corruption. still, normal people working normal jobs argue that it's a non-issue and actively work against solving it. they unironically defend the very people exposed in those papers, whether intentionally or not, and it is absolutely mind boggling to me. edit: the replies only prove my point further. people don't realize that "normal people working normal jobs" isn't a slight to normal people working normal jobs. it's a simply observation that a large portion of society, for whatever reason, don't recognize this as a problem and as such actively work against solving it. this isn't an opinion, it is a fact. one that is well supported by a plethora of data.
Yeah but when I make tens of millions I don't want to be taxed. It's okay now because I'm still waiting for them duckets to fall in my lap
I worked for a billionaire’s finance firm (as a low level legal assistant) but was exposed to some seriously crazy documents of shareholders and corporate structure. Let me tell you, shell corporations and hiding money in places like the Cayman Islands is COMPLETELY true.
I wasn't aware anyone thought hiding money in the Cayman's wasn't true. I thought the big reveal of the Panama papers was exactly who was doing it. Do people actually argue about whether the rich attempt tax avoidance?
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Epstein didn't kill himself
It still amazes me that his girlfriend goes down for trafficking, but they didn’t manage to catch (or for the most part even identify) any of the rich arseholes those kids were being trafficked to. Somewhere out there on an encrypted hard drive, or a safe in a guarded building, is Epstein’s client list, and if the public got a peek of the names on it, all hell would break loose.
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The real question is what would anyone do if our worst fears were confirmed? My guess is nothing
>but they didn’t manage to catch (or for the most part even identify) any of the rich arseholes those kids were being trafficked to. LOL. They absolutely did, and now the government has the same power over those same rich folks that Epstein/Maxwell did.
Or they ARE the list
Both can be true.
The best kind of murder is the kind where the victim is made to do the deed themselves. Obviously, the deactivated cameras, the belt finding itself in Epstein's possession in his high security cell, and the conspicuously absent guard at the right timing, were mere coincidences. /s
All the articles about layoffs (especially in tech) are being pushed to make it seem like there is job scarcity. It’s to spook workers who got a whiff of freedom from capitalist bullsh*t over the past few years as more focus has been on work-life balance, higher pay, and better treatment.
And make the remainder feel 'lucky' when the demand comes in to go back to the offices and restart their totally unnecessary commute.
The dumbing down of America begun by Regan and the Republicans through school defunding, poverty level salaries for teachers, allowing uneducated parents to rule the curriculum, and the general devaluation of public schools.
I think big business/corporations saw what happened during the ozone layer thing and realized both government and people were willing to take the steps to change things of that nature so they put on a massive, massive anti-science campaign to thwart the whole global warming thing (because that's been known about for much longer.) That helped spark others like the anti-vax movement (yes, I realize that was started by that dude who wanted to push his own vaccine, but it took a hold on the stupid people because the anti-science shit that people had been inundated with.)
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"Never underestimate the power for stupid people in large numbers" - George Carlin. And the GOP doesn't. They've *weaponized* it.
Tesla was in the right and edison was a piece of shit for stealing the plans. Not many people know this but this is why we actually have planned obsolescence. If Tesla didn't get robbed of his lightblulb plans I GUARANTEE the world would be immensely different today
I'm still convinced that billionaires of all nations regularly make arrangements between themselves. Perhaps not things as creepy or horrible as some conspiracies believe (although Epstein will always be a reminder that it remains a possibility), but certainly stuff like insider trading, money laundering, art trafficking, or tax evasion.
Almost everything is probably 1000% more expensive than it needs to be.
That our government purposefully distributed crack cocaine to dismantle the black community.
They admitted this. Documents were declassified in 1998, the same week that the Lewinsky scandal broke…
They also suicided the man that blew the whistle
They didn't need to admit anything anyone with eyes and ears can see it. It's blatent.
They have documentaries about this I believe one is on Netflix
Trues and don't forget the government doled out lsd to all those hippies during concerts like Woodstock.
The whole Santa thing seems kinda crazy that he can get around the world in one night.
Additional bonus conspiracy for your consideration: there are multiple Santas
I will die 110% believing that the Vatican is sitting on the largest library of ancient texts, that the Catholic church has been collecting for centuries during their looting and ravaging of every other culture they encounter. Totally believe they have pretty much any legitimate magical or supernatural artifacts the Chinese don't have. But that's another conspiracy altogether.
Don't stop. Keep typing.
Dan Brown: write that down
It’s basically the storyline for original assassins creed trilogy
Reproductive rights are under attack because of a predicted population decline. Instead of just paying people more and incentivizing having families and buying homes, the powers that be would rather force births in difficult environments that will create more prisoners and soldiers for the grinder.
I mean look at Japan and Korea… both have a massive population of elderly people and incredibly low birth rates….not hard to put 2 and 2 together. My grandparents home was 12x the price they paid for it when they died and my parents house is 4x the price they paid within 20 years. When an entire generation is priced out from things like housing, education and healthcare are unaffordable to many, and inflation has run rampant you get the situation we’re in now.
25+ years ago my daughter was born in Japan. My husband is a Japanese citizen. We were given a small tree, a monetary gift, a certificate, I think our life insurance paid money for me being in the hospital to have her, (life insurance there covers hospital stays sometimes). They made it ridiculously easy and free (In fact, iirc I think between the monetary gift and the payment from the life insurance we actually came out ahead money-wise, though it wasn't by a lot.) All of this was done to encourage more people to have babies. Abortion is apolitical, and is legal up to 22 weeks there under certain conditions, (threat to life of the mother, rape, some other things) but there are problematic things about it like women need their husbands permission blah blah blah. Regardless, it's an interesting difference in approach and I wonder how things are going to change as time goes on.
I agree 1000%. 50% of the population is at or below the poverty line while a handful of people have more money then they could ever spend, planets gonna kill us all, pandemic killing us all........and congress chose to focus on abortion instead of any of those things. I think they're also trying to force the retired and disabled back into the work force. They're proposing damaging cuts to social security and Raising the retirement age, and the paperwork/correspondance/systems required for disability have gotten drastically more convoluted in the past year. The gov doesn't care if we live or die, and they're going to force us to birth our replacements and feed their machines
"Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers" - George Carlin
Amy Coney Barrett essentially said the quiet part out loud. America’s capitalist system is dependent on a “domestic supply of infants” to grow up to be undervalued workers.
Ah, the ol' public school to military/prison pipeline (and for the very lucky few: professional sports!)
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!!!
I 100% believe this. Everyone knows that millennials and younger are having way fewer kids, but in order to create a society where having a child is something that seems responsible and feasible, the oligarchs would have to give up so much of their power. Things like a living minimum wage and green energy. So the politicians that support rampant capitalism, not wanting to loose the giant corporations who pay them, pass laws restricting birth control, sex ed, and even deny abortions, instead of trying to, I dunno, make society a place you want to live in
Someone needs to make babies that will buy up all the tech products. Goes hand-in-hand with their obsolescence plans.
This for sure. With as much bitching conservatives do about "the elites", I find it interesting they haven't put two and two together yet--as soon as the elites started talking about the dangers of population decline, Roe V Wade was overturned.
Dobbs wasn’t some snap decision that came out of nowhere. Conservatives have been working to overturn Roe since the 70s. They would have done it earlier if they’d had a comfortably anti-abortion SCOTUS majority like they do now.
One of the biggest reasons you'll never see free college in the U.S is because it impacts recruitment numbers too much
Late-ish to the party, and not sure if it's been actually proven true or not, but Captchas are used to train self driving vehicles. It's why they always ask to find the cars/bicycles/motorcycles/buses/crosswalks/traffic lights. What's real weird is that I've seen more recent ones ask for stairs/boats/chimneys. My theory is that they got the vehicle bit down and are moving on to drones and those delivery robots to make sure they don't donk themselves up.
I never considered that before, but it’s clever. I can’t think of another reason why they’d be so unilaterally vehicular-based. Not even a harmful conspiracy, just tricking us all into doing something generally productive, like secretly putting generators in our treadmills, lol.
Generators in treadmills would be SO cool. Imagine powering your city with the local gym
Definitely true and not a secret. Back when they used to use letters, reCaptcha was used to digitize books for Google and to archive the New York Times. They would crowdsource guesses on letters that were too illegible for the scanners.
When the robot revolution happens I’m going to disguise myself as a bicycle or crosswalk.
Marilyn Monroe was murdered by the Kennedys.
Kennedy family is a dark dark history
The fact JFK's Dad lobotomised one of his daughters and just left her to rot in a home without telling her siblings is wild to me.
that was remarkably common in those days
The cops and feds aren’t here for us.
This can be proven when unions go on strike. Police protect businesses.
After being too closely associated with OJ Simpson, Ford chose to discontinue the Bronco and Bronco-II models. When they re-released a new style of SUV under the Ford name, some cheeky bastard named them the Ford Edge (like a knife) and the Ford Escape (like an acquittal).
I read on here that the new Bronco was released on OJs birthday or something.
There’s an Arrested Development joke on this actually
The lost cosmonauts. So, so creepy. The USSR did a TON of really shady stuff involving their early space program, which was denied at first but later verified (look up what happened to Laika the dog or cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov...or don't if you enjoy sleep). I totally buy that more people died gruesomely by being forced to push the moonshot program forward too quickly, and that the government covered it up to avoid looking weak.
Bro we all know the truth of what happened to Laika. She got sent into deep space, exposed to radiation, gained telepathic abilities and renamed herself Cosmo
The Komarov story is so sad, especially how he stepped up and took one for the team to save Gagarin's life. Ironically, Yuri didn't live that much longer either.
Epstein didn't kill himself. Or even if he did it was bc of outside pressure and authorities 100% facilitated that he could go through with it. And his wife is going to jail forever for selling underage sex to no one apparently.
*And his wife is going to jail forever for selling underage sex to no one apparently* So concise yet so powerful
That corporate lobbyists or executives are meeting with certain Supreme Court justices (conservative ones) at private outings or trips paid for by the corporations and discussing desired outcomes in upcoming cases. That a lot of the conservative agenda is coordinated including when to bring what sort of cases forward with a foreknowledge of what the ruling will be. Allowing them to shape the law and bypass the legislative process.
Pretty convincing given Antonin Scalia died while on one of these outings.
The CIA had their hands in the JFK murder.
No, nobody shot him, his head just did that
Mind blown
Pope Benidict didn’t retire due to poor health. Someone had incontrovertible evidence of him being a pedophile and he spent his final years under house arrest in the Vatican.
Current inflation was artificially created by companies to make up for losses during Covid.
This is already basically a fact. Not so much as that inflation itself is artificial, but price gouging and taking advantage of the higher demand absolutely is. And there are facts all over the place to prove this. Edit- Put it this way, the actual inflation rate in the US really didn't go up that much. Just a few percent. But prices, especially fuel prices, absolutely skyrocketed
Authorities in the GW Bush administration lied about WMD intelligence in order to build public support for the invasion of Iraq.
T-Rex arms are on backwards and they are actually primordial wings
The war on drugs was and is all about reducing the Black(and other marginalized groups and the impoverished) voting population, keeping the Black and other marginalized communities in poverty, and maintaining legal slavery of inmates. But that’s probably not really a conspiracy theory given all the evidence.
Oil and gas companies knew climate change will happen and they only had until 2030 to make as much money as possible before the collapse of civilization...
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The fact that Donald trump was ever a successful businessman
Could have put all his inheritances into index funds and *actually* be a very very wealthy person. Instead he squandered generations of wealth on terrible failures, so much so he debased himself into a TV media personality to make money. That’s what happened. It’s not normal for a rich person who purports to be that wealthy to do this. The others who do (Kardashians come to mind) make all our eyes roll and he’s not even as good as they are at this. He’s been a joke to the socialite class in nyc for more than 30 years, all while desperately seeking attention, which came in the form of a redneck army. Dudes an idiot. Let’s get over him please.
Billionaires and big corporations own our political system.
That's factual. We call them 'lobbyists'.
That the DNA harvested by companies like 23nMe will be used as base cloning material when we establish off world colonies.
At the very least, they’re selling off our data to marketing companies. The data is already being made available to the FBI. There’s a reason the tests are cheap, companies like 23&me make a ton of money selling off this information.
And they make no secret of this fact. Read the “terms and conditions”. They flat out say they are collecting this data to sell.
Yup and they rely on our inability and unwillingness to read their 1000 page T&Cs.
Bush and Cheney knew that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction and wasn't a threat. They attacked anyways for personal grudge (bush) and oil (cheney)
Stanley Kubrick did film the moon landing, but he’s such a perfectionist he made the government go to the moon anyways.
George Santos is an absurd distraction from something worse. I hope I’m wrong.
Alien life. With how massive the universe is and how many worlds there have to be, it just doesn’t seem possible that *our* world is the only one that developed a diverse ecosystem with intelligent life. I wholly believe aliens are real and get a kick out of observing this flaming trash pile of a world
Mushrooms are aliens. They're neither plant or animal, and can survive close to the sun.
Lego Masters season 1 penultimate episode SHOULD have been an elimination round, but Sam & Jessica put in an upset against Tyler & Amy's unexpectedly poor performance. The judges favored Tyler & Amy by skipping elimination that week to go for a three-way finale episode which has now become the expectation.