I wonder how many conspiracy theories started with a practical joke that got way out of hand.

And someone is dying of laughter as people attribute it to aliens, god, elites, illuminati , lizard people or immigrants.

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ostfuidctyvm

There's a certain type of person who wants to believe conspiracy theories. They're a willing audience just waiting for a conspiracy. They're similar to people who want to believe in things such as alien spacecraft and psychic abilities. In essence they just want the world to be more than it seems. They want life to be more than it seems. In my mind it simply reflects emptiness in the person and a childlike need for magic to exist and for other people to be to blame for things.

Bel6EQUJ5

@ostfuidctyvm Yes! That's it, that's exactly it! They want there to be more to life, because they simply cannot accept the fact that the life they're living, which apparently isn't exciting enough for them, is all there is.

ElwoodBlues · M

I think many of them got started with a specific purpose to distort politics. Here's a list of a bunch of recent conspiracy theories; all designed to benefit conservatives.

Birthers
Death panels
Jade Helm conspiracy
FEMA camps conspiracy
Benghazi
Ebola (that Obama was bringing it to the US)
Man made climate change deniers
Gun confiscation
Martial law
Hillary will be indicted
Trickle down economics (it only helps the rich)
Obama founded ISIS (it came about during the Bush administration)
Pizzagate
Sharia law (not one case on Sharia law, we also don't use the 10 commandments )
Sweden's rape crisis
In person voter fraud
Hillary sold uranium (URANIUM WAS NOT SOLD TO RUSSIA)
Seth Rich conspiracy theory
North Korea is disarming
Russia didn't interfere with the US election
Russia didn't support Trump (conspiracy to falsely accuse Trump)

thisguy20 · 41-45, M

@ElwoodBlues Don't forget that all birds are CIA drones...

Pizzagate is actually a deflection: those things are happening, perpetrated by elites (i.e. billionaires), but not in a pizzeria (average people go to pizzerias after all) in the basements of the clubhouses of expensive highly exclusive country clubs...

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

Many years ago I worked alongside a man with quiet, but deeply held Christian beliefs. He wore glasses and had clip on sun glass shades he used to put on whenever the sun came out bright. (often) I started telling him I had noticed that whenever he did this, within a few minutes the sun went away and rain threatened.. (Its just our local weather pattern) I told him I thought he was a rain God, triggering the event with his actions. In the end I had him wondering. I think it does show that those who are prepared to accept something on faith alone, can be convinced of other irrational things..😷